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Old Jan 30, 2020, 7:18 am
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Don't forget to watch the crowd in ATH - as many others in business class are properly connecting on similar flights having booked the same deal. The five or six hours layover in JED went by unexpectedly fast after another passenger turned out to be a Flyertalk member - which always makes for some good fun sharing travel and flight stories. Another passenger bound from ATH to KUL (who as far as I know isn't on Flyertalk but accidentally found the deal as he had to go to KUL in the first place) turned out to be a great conversation partner as well for the time spent waiting in Jeddah for the transit bus to the south terminal. There is always some form of camaraderie having booked the same unusual deal and transiting through the same third world facility which is JED's south terminal.

PS. It was written before that the transit bus at JED departs gate from gate 30 at the new terminal, but there are actually four gate 30s! There is 30a, 30b, 30c and 30d.. in our case the transit but left from 30c. Just approach a member of staff as soon as you arrive. Unfortunately I did not manage to get into the new lounge as we were flat out refused and told we needed to go to the south terminal. Even a quick peek was out of the question!
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