Seniors/Families Lanes at DMK?
May 13, 2019, 12:03 am
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Seniors/Families Lanes at DMK?
When I passed through Suvarnabhumi recently I used the dedicated Seniors/Families Immigration lane for both Arrivals & Departures. Is there such a facility for International passengers at Don Meuang? Last time I passed through that airport was in 2015 arriving on Air Asia and it was a total clusterf***
Jul 31, 2019, 4:21 pm
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When I passed through Suvarnabhumi recently I used the dedicated Seniors/Families Immigration lane for both Arrivals & Departures. Is there such a facility for International passengers at Don Meuang? Last time I passed through that airport was in 2015 arriving on Air Asia and it was a total clusterf***
Jul 31, 2019, 9:04 pm
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That fits with my recollection. However the priority lane queues were being ignored completely by the Immigration staff who simply moved people around according to which queue was shortest; a friend of mine in the so-called "priority" APEC Biz line took over and hour because of the large number of Chinese tourists who were shuffled in front of her
Aug 1, 2019, 9:00 am
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Were they shuffled or they just broke the queue? My experience at DMK has been that the Chinese groups send one or two people to stand in the queue while the rest go and fill in their forms and then come back and take their places by breaking the queue.
Aug 1, 2019, 4:34 pm
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Immigration handling at DMK can be, uh, fluid. Outbound Immigration priority "qualification" was seemingly enforced on this observation. Inbound also a few days earlier, with APEC Biz Card being allowed priority. I actually didn't see the separate queue for Chinese visitors I've seen in the past, as I recall.