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Old Jun 27, 2022 | 10:21 pm
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Originally Posted by siege101
How do the lines move at immigration and security? Is it like the disasters that can happen at AMS or has it been handled properly at IST? And if it's bad, is it worth it to pay for one of the fast-track services?
It's been handled properly at Istanbul and there is no mess compared to see what you would see in Central Europe.
There is decent staffing at Istanbul and IMO, paying for fast-track would make no sense unless you are in a super rush.

Even at most peak times, you would not wait more than 15-20 minutes where most of the time wait times would be around 5 minutes.
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