So Perth Airport has finally found another way to extract money form the punters. As you may be aware you need to be at the airport 3 hours before your flight nowadays. A pain in the bum but not the end of the world as you can spend those hours browsing the shops in the duty free area. Or if you are really lucky trying to eat and drink the busness class lounge dry.
But now at Perth International Airport you can arrive 3 hours before, but immigration does not open until two hours before the flight. Genius. Hundreds of passengers trying to kill an hour buying overpriced coffee at the Dome, overpriced books at Virgin and freeze dried abalone at the "australian" food shop. if it was truly Australian it would stock meat pies and sausage rolls for goodness sake.
The even better bit is that when to doors do open they have already managed to make a queue for the two immigration agents trying to process two 747s worth of passengers. Because it's just not flying if there aren't at least three slow moving queues to stand in between the car park and the aeroplane.
There's a lovely sign at the security checkpoint reminding all passengers to leave their handguns in Australia. I'm glad it's there as I can't count the number of times I've been about to board an international flight and found that pesky Walther automatic pistol in my hand luggage. Seriously who are these signs aimed at? International super-villans?
The Singapore airline lounge has been redecorated too and it fairly lovely, except for the hideous crime of not clearly labelling the pies. I mean nobody wants to bite into a party pie and discover its steak and kidney! Who really eats kidney, and who really enjoys it? Do they know what kidneys do?
And I know it's a bit weird to name this blog Airport Woes 1 when there is no Airport Woes 2, but believe me, there will be more!
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