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Old Jan 4, 2012 | 4:15 pm
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lunardream
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Kuwait
Programs: GF Black
Posts: 350
Originally Posted by Down_the_back
I use BAH airport as transit, one or two times a week, DXB-DMM-DXB or DXB-CAI-DXB..

I have to say, it bears well to short connection time, usually 45 mins on the DXB-DMM and i have never missed a connection, OK the tansit point is bad sometimes, but only as the majority of passengers wait until they are at the x-ray machine to remove any items that may trigger off the warnings.

I laugh each time, when there is no one there, as you still have to walk round the railings...

They need a J class or GF Gold transit point so you dont have to queue, that would make it easier all round, but on the whole I like BAH for transits over DOH anyday.

I use DOH on DXB-DOH-ALG and we get on the same plane we got off, just to sit on bus for 15 mins each way. i never use the lounge, almost jump back on the same bus and onto the same plane - a waste of time!

Based in DXB i am thankful of my E-Gate card, lines in immigration on arriving are always bad!

The reson i take GF to DMM is that they arrive on smaller aircraft in the morning, before QR and after Air Arabia have finished. No lines, usually takes me 15 minutes from landing, to lighting up my ciggie on the outside (avoid check in bags at DMM) they take forever!
couldn't agree more about what you have mentioned about BAH. I truly dislike the DOH for the 15 minutes plus for the bus drive just to get back on the same plane, true waste of time. The lines at the transit in BAH are pretty annoying with that mini maze that you just have to go through..Sometimes, during evening flights, it gets packed to the point that I remember seeing lines all the way to the security check points.
btw, did you ever experince problems with the -e-gate card at AUH? after I got it, I had problems in getting it to work properly at the gate itself.
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