Originally Posted by
m0hamed
What utter crap.
Just enter CAI through the correct entrance where your bags will be x rayed, and you will walk straight into EY check in. Walk through immigration and make your way to a lounge. There are, in fact, several lounges on the second level. They are called 'British Lounge' etc. but actually have no correlation to which airline uses them. They are like a living room with couches, tvs etc. There are basic snacks and soft drinks.
Just outside these rooms there is a coffee shop.
You don't have to pay anyone throughout the entire experience.
Utter crap, you say? OK fair enough. Just reporting my experience. Yours might be different.
I am Gold Elite with Etihad, travel at least three times a week in MENA, and I think I know what I'm talking about. CAI is an awful airport, staffed and surrounded by opportunist hawkers.
But hey, if you don't want to take my word for it, so be it.