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Old Oct 25, 2012 | 12:53 pm
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I'm not sure that you can check in online for flights ex AMM ....
when I've gone to that on the RJ website KRT does not come up as an option ..... but I hope I might be wrong!

You can contact RJ at KRT airport - there is an email address on the RJ website under contacts etc
They will tell you to email them your incoming and outgoing itineraries ....
I have communicated with them about a possible forthcoming trip and have had prompt and helpful responses.

There is more information about the transit earlier on in this long thread but I think your expectations are not in the right ballpark ..... this is by reputation and anecdote one of the worst airports in the world ....
I believe you inform an Immigration Official that you are in transit and then you are in their hands .... they will eventually bus you over to departures to check in and then escort you back through airside - or I believe sometimes they organize check-in for you.
One poster on here who has done it successfully - said that it is not for the faint-hearted .....

Whatever it sounds like you need to be prepared for a bit of an adventure to do this !




Originally Posted by henry999
I'm looking at a similar plan: arriving on TK (HEL-ist-KRT) at 0220 and leaving on the RJ at 0625 (i.e., within the six hours). My departure from HEL is less than 24 hours before the departure from KRT so the RJ online check-in will be open and I expect to have my KRT-AMM BP printed before I leave HEL.

The confusing thing in the above-quoted rule is the bit about the 'onward carrier'. If TK are worried about letting me board at HEL (or IST) without a Sudanese visa, I will have my onward ticket and BP to show them. But how does RJ, the onward carrier, get in the game before I show up at KRT? Of course, if they looked, they would be able to see that I had checked in online -- but, as lerasp says, what about getting them to tell the Sudanese?

There's another factor which I haven't seen raised yet in this discussion, and that is -- what exactly is airside transit like at KRT? Do you come off the airbridge (or, perhaps more likely, off the bus) into the terminal, check the monitor for your next flight's gate info, and just go there (or to the lounge)? Or is it perhaps like in America, where there is no airside transit and all arriving international pax have to go through pass control? If the former, how do they even know how long it is (or has been) between your flights?

Maybe someone who has actually been to/through KRT could brief us on the procedure?

cheers,

Henry
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