The Airport
How come there is no seating? In the old airport there were tons of places to sit down and wait but in the new airport the only places to sit are next to the restaurants. The problem is there isn’t enough seating there either. Since there is no seating elsewhere in the airport people flock to the tiny food court and order a coffee and hog the seats. So if you want to eat (like I usually do) you can never find a place to sit.
They should either add more seating all around the arrival area or expand the tiny food court by adding more chairs and tables.
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May 15, 2006
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14 Comments, add your own...
1. Anon | May 15th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
security issues?
left luggage, bombs? or just plain absent mindedness… its kuwait afterall :D
2. Pearls | May 15th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
huh?
3. shadyq80 | May 15th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
No, but they have two starbucks!
4. Joey | May 15th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
my god…don’t you have anything better to do other than complaining and finding something to bitch abt? lifeles…
5. Anon | May 15th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
joey, dont you have anything to do except for complaining about people who complain?
god
6. Noura | May 15th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
LOL @ THE COMMENTS
7. Jewaira | May 15th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Actually, that is a very valid and significant argument. There is not enough seating and too many people come to see their relatives and friends off.
8. Joey | May 15th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
I am sorry for my rude comment earlier
9. tim | May 15th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
not wanting to get eggs thrown at me, but the business/first lounges are HUGE with free phones, food, and wayyyy too many seats. It’s almost too much!
10. holla | May 15th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
also ppl go to the airport to hang out bc it’s open 24 hrs so they take up even more space.
i am guilty of this heh. i like to go to the airport and dream about getting on the next plane to some other place.
11. Fatal Attraction | May 16th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
The trick I think lies in making sure no two flights from the Indian sub-continent and Egypt ever arrive at about the same time. Although there’s little the DGCA can do about this, in an ideal world the Dhaka and Geneva arrivals could be lumped together while Lahore and Paris could easily go hand in hand. But put Dhaka, Lahore and Cairo together and you have cut yourself a very sorry spectacle. And giving credit where it’s due I also think Kwt International has a sense of humor about it – anyone care to remember the old flight arrivals indicator in the arrivals concourse, you know the one where it said arrival of certain flights separate from actual arrival for certain others. :)
As for departures, don’t mind me but we find it comparable to a woman in obstructed labour; roomy pelvic inlet at the top and constricted at the bottom (near the duty free and departure gates)like a tight lipped os that refuses to dilate.
So much for architectural ingenuity at KWI.
12. 3baid | May 16th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
I think they deliberately have less seats so people don’t hang around the airport and therefore, less crowds for arrivals.
13. Ablution Central | May 18th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
I agree the thinking has been in line with European airport operators( think Heathrow) but unlike London or Stockholm so far this has failed miserably in keeping the airport less crowded.
Simply, extra-polating what worked in other countries to Kuwait may not be good enough: local remedies for local problems, please.
Hmmn….Dhaka and Geneva and Paris and Lahore, you say…I say that’s mighty intriguing. Why don’t we sandwich Beirut arrivals between Peshawar and Mumbai, and New York-London between Colombo and Dhaka for a change?
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