Originally Posted by
directorguy_
Although Air Arabiia can be very, very tempting (especially if it's non-Eid times when all the working class people fly home) but the downside is SHJ. Bad, slow check-in and immigration experience (the ones at DXB aren't much better but DXB can be one of the most efficient arrival/departure points even at multi-bank times of the day).
Not a soul at immigration when I passed through. Although the E-Gate wouldn't work, it still took less than 2 minutes.
What I found amazing was that from a completely full flight (A320), only 5 people had checked luggage! We though we must be have been at the wrong carousel as there were only a handful of people waiting.
SHJ seemed to be going through a fair bit of construction. The baggage area seemed pretty new.
Cheers,
Rick