Bengaluru: Have the ills of the shambolic immigration at the US’ notorious Newark airport come to visit Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport?
Some 130 passengers who landed at KIA on Friday night came off a SriLankan Airlines flight expecting to whizz through the newly expanded immigration which boasts 12 counters, only to find the counters shut and the hall empty!
Flight UL 171, flying between Colombo-Bengaluru, touched down at exactly 8 pm and over the next ten minutes all the passengers, many of them, women and children had disembarked and were lined up at immigration.
Except, all the counters were shut and there was not a single officer in sight. “For the next 20 minutes passengers had no clue what was happening at the counters.
Unless you pass the immigration check points you have no seating arrangements or rest room facility. There were passengers who had booked taxis and some of them were about to catch their next connecting flights.
08/11/14 Deccan Chronicle
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Some 130 passengers who landed at KIA on Friday night came off a SriLankan Airlines flight expecting to whizz through the newly expanded immigration which boasts 12 counters, only to find the counters shut and the hall empty!
Flight UL 171, flying between Colombo-Bengaluru, touched down at exactly 8 pm and over the next ten minutes all the passengers, many of them, women and children had disembarked and were lined up at immigration.
Except, all the counters were shut and there was not a single officer in sight. “For the next 20 minutes passengers had no clue what was happening at the counters.
Unless you pass the immigration check points you have no seating arrangements or rest room facility. There were passengers who had booked taxis and some of them were about to catch their next connecting flights.
08/11/14 Deccan Chronicle
