YYC - Calgary: agree wholeheartedly with the comments about the customs officers at this airport. I wasn't on a mileage run (was there and YEG for 3 days) but I got the full grill down by a customs officer upon arrival at the airport, why are you here, what are you doing, who are you visiting, where are you going after this, why are you going there? where do you work? what do you do there? (among 20 other questions). Canadian customs officers could be a little more friendly! Like miles dependent, we are from Australia, why would we want to stay in Canada!!

CGK - Jakarta - I did this MR with another FTer, and it was great (with the help of the other FTer of course), we took LH from SIN on the 55,555 promo and wanted to make the round trip immediately, didn't want to stay in CGK for the night. Only problem the LH aircraft was leaving around 30-60 mins after arrival. The other FTer was aware that CGK customs can be very slow, particularly with foreigners, so we found a nice airport officer and the other FTer had a nice chat to them in Indonesian, and what do you know it, he got us to change some $ for payment of taxes and whisked our passports through immigration and about 10 minutes later we had our passports back, stamped and back on the LH flight to SIN. The only pain was flying on LH Y.

SIN - Singapore - gone on a number of MR's from SIN and never had any questions from checkin agents or staff whatsoever.

At one place I did a MR, it was quite embarassing, as I kept on arriving back a few times a day, and the staff would say, Oh kawoh, have you missed your connection?? I would reply - no, i've been there already, i'm earning more frequent flyer miles... they just shook their heads! On some trips i've left myself a 10-25 minute turnaround. Granted there was a bit of running around but it's possible (never again though!)

[This message has been edited by kawoh (edited 04-26-2003).]