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Old Nov 6, 2005 | 10:27 am
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Originally Posted by AAJetMan
I can't recall a worse airport than MAD (Madrid, Spain) about 3 years ago. Euro passport holders zipped through, but those of us from the US had to wait in long lines while the airport allowed PEOPLE TO STAND AROUND SMOKING!!! EWwwww!
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No problems in MAD for me, but CDG is perpetually a nightmare - all the planes from the US seem to arrive within five minutes of one another and it seems like that is always the time that either:

* Immigration folks decide its time to go on break and shut down to two lanes
* They close the secure area to examine a suspicious package (this has happened to me twice now)
* Airline workers go on strike and they have to confer with one another to decide what to do
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