Friday 8/16 was a disaster. We were one on the later large planes to arrive around 13:30. KLM, Air France, American from Miami, Delta and maybe others were all there ahead of us. We got the bus since all 4 jetway areas were taken. They put us in 6 lines under some shade. We were the sixth line and I’m figuring that we are looking at at least 2 hours before we get to immigration. But we were only about 15 minutes. They let us in before many others that been standing there. Seemed like there was no logic as to who they let go through immigration.
Then the true insanity started . . . Baggage. Hundreds of people crammed into the area around the belt, waiting for their flight to come through. It was hot. It was crowded. The worker people were short tempered, I’m sure because they are as frustrated as anyone. It seemed like ours came out before other flights. We were a total of just under 2 hours from landing to out the door. I was talking to someone later in the day who said that they landed at noon and didn’t get out of there until 15:30!
Not sure what happened to the process of holing people outside in an orderly line in the shade until their flight’s bags are coming out.
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