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Old Jan 16, 2008 | 8:02 pm
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Originally Posted by amateur305
5 hours...yeah thats too long...but I guess this is how things are in Hajj. Did this flight leave from the normal airport in Jeddah or the Hajj terminal? I've used JED airport several times and its fine.
15 mins per passenger at checkin...I wonder why...arguing about excessive luggage I guess? Or maybe many overbookings?
It may have been the Hajj terminal - I'm not sure since it was the only time I have ever been there. They blamed the 15 min per person check-in on the computers, but it seemed to be inept check-in agents to me.

You also had groups of people jockeying to be first in line (probably many of whom had never flown before in their lives except for the flight over). Everyone also seemed to have the max baggage allowence.

To put it in perspective though, that was one of the least stressful things that we dealt with during Hajj.
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