For some reasons the three exclamation marks gave this sign at Auckland an earnest urgency I felt the need to capture. As Terry Pratchett in Maskerade noted:
"And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head."
The sign would have been fine without the exclamation marks. With them? It starts to seem a bit silly. Security checkpoints shouldn't be silly. It's just not right.
I have now been in Kansai airport's departure lounge for four hours. Curiously I was told in no uncertain terms by the Air New Zealand flight crew that all people with a transit time of more than two hours had to fill out a full customs and immigration declaration. This turned out to not be true.
Apparently I collect my boarding pass from the departure gate but being the fretful traveller I am I am highly suspicious of this arrangement. Although, since my flight to Amsterdam has been delayed 35 minutes already, I wont need to test this theory for a while.
On the point of delays, my Wellington - Auckland flight was delayed 15 minutes, and my Auckland - Osaka flight sat on the tarmac for 30 minutes while they did 'paperwork'. A poor run of luck so far.
Although since I have free wifi and a free power point, I should really stop complaining.
Been stuck in an airport on standby for two days in Japan once. You never are comfortable, even sleeping because the chgairs are not comfortable. You can sleep on your coat on the floor, though. The food is expensive, the books expensive, but oh well. There is a reaason they call airports TERMINALS.
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