Different countries different rules. Will you also boycott UK and US because some passengers are required to switch on electronic devices at departure gates but other countries don't require this?

He is very easily offended. .

I flew through T1 for the first time a couple of weeks ago and have to agree with the OP, its a zoo. The worst thing was the immigration staff wandering up and down/leaving their posts to have a chat with their mates and a play with their phones, despite the queues of people going all the way back to the entrance. I assume its the untouchable Emirati syndrome at play again?

HKG is my favourite airport, but Singapore is up there. I cant even think where you would be searched as you don't encounter security personnel until you get to the gate? The people checking your passports are not there for security purposes. There must have been some kind of threat at the time, or you were behaving particularly strangely.

Now we can be friends

It was not only me, but all incoming passengers were being searched prior to heading to immigration, which was an absolute offense to me. Singapore needs to understand that first impressions are very important for first time visitors to Singapore. Unfortunately my first impression to Singapore was negative, which is why I have no intention of ever visiting/transiting in Singapore again in the future.

Singapore needs to learn from developed countries on how to treat its visitors. I was stopped to have my passport checked in HKG at the gate bridge, but then was cleared for immigration This was a bad experience (especially when I was flying J class on CX,) but not as bad as being searched upon arrival

Well there you go, there was obviously some security threat they knew about so had to check everyone. That would be the case at any airport in the world. Don't be so stupid.

Im sure the Singapore hotel association will rejoice that you have no plans to visit again.

And your assessment of Australia is based on ... Not travelling there but what you see on tv. You do know they have dogs that sniff you at the airports in Australia, in case you're carrying food.

And the indignity of having your passport checked when you get off the plane - certain countries I know used to impose heavy fines on airlines transporting passengers turning up at immigration without passports. So maybe they were just making sure no one was arriving without a passport.

If the OPs other posts are an indication of how he/she is like as a person then yes they probably will rejoice.

Anyway, this is all way off topic for a discussion about DXB : A Tale of 2 Terminals.

Maybe you fit the profile...Arab by chance?

I've transited or landed at SIN maybe a dozen times and never had anything more than the standard baggage and metal dectector screening when entering the departure lounge/gate. I too put it as my favorite airport.

You sound as if you are either not a very experienced traveller or else you just go out of your way to get offended. I suspect that my second suggestion goes a long way towards explaining the treatment you receive.

SIN only has security check for a few countries which are considered "not very safe". I think the only time I've had security-on-arrival was from Thailand. And it was still done in a very human matter. SIN isn't the best in every aspect, but it's definitely a very nice airport, beating most if not all others in most aspects.

You do know that just about everything you said in your post is incorrect...just saying!

I am 100% sure you've not been to Singapore. And whoever told you that crap must have had their fun of a lifetime into making you believing it all. Exaggerated by about 3000%.

I have been through Singapore airport over 150 times, on about 3 maybe 4 times there was security when getting off the plane. It is exactly the same security at the gate as you normally get when boarding. It is annoying as you have to line up again and take everything out of your pocket (otherwise how else are you going to get through the metal detector without it going PING). And repack your carry on after the x-ray. Annoying - but how can it be disrespectful when they are doing it to everyone on the plane?

The plane is also taken to the furthest arrival gate (which has multiple boarding gates, so they can run multiple x-ray and metal detectors at once, rather than the standard 2 per gate), none of the other boarding gates are used at this time, to keep the passengers on this plane separate, and get everyone off as quickly as possible. However, it does mean a long walk to where ever you want to go (arrivals, lounge, another gate etc.)

There is no way, NONE that when walking past all the other gates you saw every plane doing arrival security - departure YES, as security is done at the gate and not some central point, which makes it a great transit airport, but not arrival. As you hadn't been to Singapore before you wouldn't know that getting off a plane the air bridge leads straight into the concourse, not past x-rays.

They do this as they are looking for something specific. Or someone. There was some customs tip off and the one time you went to Singapore you were on a plane that likely had some drug couriers and you round on a country / airport that has a zero tolerance policy which the arrivals announcement would have said.

Ask questions on why do you think they did this on the one flight you arrived on rather than assuming it is normal.

And lastly - how can they tell that you as an arriving passenger is "Clearly" heading for arrivals and not transiting when all transiting and arriving passengers mix on a common concourse?

Why are you guys letting aceboy44 derail this thread? His whole gimmick here seems to be to go into a subforum and make an unsubstantiated (arrival security in SIN)/unreasonable (not allowed to use lounge as Y passenger in DXB, complain about lights being on on QR flights) complaint and then watch people call him an idiot. Somehow he gets off on that, but why bother responding when there's some discussion to be had about how crap T1 at DXB is?

Though one thing T1 has going for it is that the landside food court is much better than T3.


edit: I just started reading his hotel reviews, lol at them too

Travel on CX in Feb this year with my family. Upon check in we were warned by the agent to proceed to the gate early as it was "congested". We had no idea how congested it was until we were about 100 metres from the entrance. It took us nearly 20 mins just to get pass the ticket/ passport check at the entrance .... Then another 30 mins before we cleared immigration. At this stage, at least there were some attempts to get peoples into proper queues .... As we step into the security check area it was absolute mayhem. There was no queue, everyone just pressed against each other pushing and shelving towards one of the security check scanners. You can hear people shouting and arguing, children crying in distress and several families with young children (including myself) separated from the young ones and begging people around us to let us get through to our children. This is a total disgrace and there was not an officer in sight to attempt to control the crowd. I told my wife I would never ever travel through terminal 1 again and will from now on only travel on Emirates to avoid all these ........ Maybe, and I am just speculating, this is the whole point of maintaining terminal 1 like a circus so that more will follow my lead