Jaspike From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2008, 1 posts, RR: 2 Posted (12 years 1 month 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 170 times:
What is your worst baggage reclaim hall you have been in?
Mine was Birmingham. There was a flight in from Pakistan, and there were lots of people on it. They were sitting on the floor, smoking, little kids running around etc. and it smelt a bit. When we left there were about 65 police officers everywhere with huge guns, ripping to pieces the people from Pakistans luggage, probably checking it for drugs, weapons etc. Then in the Arrivals hall there were enormous crowds of people meeting the Pakistanis. We eventually got out!
Jas
(Birmingham is a good airport - don't let this put you off!)
Fax From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2001, 145 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (12 years 1 month 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 132 times:
Try PMI in the middle of summer it is a free for all, you can wait over an hour for baggage and thats after its taken you 20 minutes walking from the gate.
Horrendous facility, badly planned- concrete and sterile and not at all user friendly.
My advise if you ever visit, take hand luggage only!!
JAT From Canada, joined Feb 2000, 1095 posts, RR: 10 Reply 2, posted (12 years 1 month 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 122 times:
Belgarde is horrible!!!!!!!! The delapitated carousels, dingy hall, smells bad, everybody is smoking. NASTY washrooms! Don't even get me started on the arrival hall.
Alle From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (12 years 1 month 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 110 times:
Natal, Brazil
OLD and worn out! But anyway, our luggage was waiting for us because we had to queue 1.5 hrs to get through immigration after deplaning our B767-300 from ARN.
Liberia, Costa Rica
Here immigration was quick and the terminal was quite modern, but here we had to wait for our baggage for a long time because it took a long time for them to unload our bags from our B757 from HEL, they didn't have any carousels, they just took the bags to the floor and then you just had to look for your own bag.
Lewis From Greece, joined Jul 1999, 3445 posts, RR: 5 Reply 5, posted (12 years 1 month 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 109 times:
Athens old airport, both eastern and western terminal. Few carousels, even 5 flights per carousel during rush hour, many people in an average-sized hall, smoking and smelling bad!
N312RC From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 2678 posts, RR: 18 Reply 7, posted (12 years 1 month 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 106 times:
Some of you have obviously never reclaimed baggage at Detroit-Metro (DTW). It only floods with about 2 feet of water everytime it rains. I think it was the old Fallout shelter for the airport that they converted to a bag claim hall.
Jaspike From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2008, 1 posts, RR: 2 Reply 8, posted (12 years 1 month 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 102 times:
Reus-Millitary Airport, (not just millitary) Costa Dorada, Spain. Near Salou. We landed got off straight away, and all the bags were there waiting for us. Off the plane to the coach in 5mins.
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