On my way!
Getting picked up from home by the Emirates chauffeur
does not guarantee you will get dropped off at Departures at Perth International
Airport! Due to the current extensive renovations and earthworks happening
at the airport, traffic is being diverted away from the road leading right past the entrance doors to Terminal 1 doors. This means that several airport workers in fluoro colours are needed to direct the poor
passengers with huge suitcases along the parallel road in the car-park, which is also lined with fluoro, so that we find out way to the entrance which is now quite a distance away from the original drop-off
point that we are familiar with!
Once inside, it is apparent that none of the
Emirates desks are open yet.
Apparently they only open three hours before the flight, which in this case will be no
earlier than 1510!
That part was easy - the horrendous part was the long, long (5 parallel lines!) crocodile
queue waiting to pass through the new Immigration
system. It took me 35 minutes. It might have been quicker if all 12 desks had been occupied instead of the four that were! Once through, there is a new baggage check-in system, which
for a change is now more efficient and streamlined than before - 3 big long
belts, and really big trays that zoom along the rollers for all baggage
items!
Phew! Now for some Moët champagne in the Emirates Lounge, ready
for the first (Class) leg of the journey!
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