Originally Posted by
Smirnoff
However, boarding at gate 4 is a PITA. Hurded slowly into the boarding pen. If you wait towards the end of boarding, you will take ages getting into the pen and there will be no newspapers left. On the other hand, if you go earlier, you will be crammed with 250 other people in a pen designed for 50, but at least you will get a newspaper and a chance to get on the first bus.
Must be a Cyprus thing.
Same at PFO last week (although only boarding a A320), boarding pass check, stuffing of the pig pens, boarding to buses, all supervised by one very frazzled Cyprus Airways lady.
A decent sized shambles, with accompanying screaming kids and a wheelchair jockey, who thought the way to get through the crowd was to drive his pax's chair into my ankles.