1) Print your receipt. Very important because they do not have a computer
and therefore have no way to look up your ticket.
2) Give receipt to the guy behind the counter. His job is to look at a
seating diagram, decide how much he likes you, and then assign you a seat
(hopefully not near the lavatories or next to the crying baby that was in
line in front of you). He then writes out your ticket by hand and tears
off the applicable part of your receipt so you can't use it again.
3) Wait. No one here cares about the "one seat between us" unofficial rule
because the objective is to sit under a ceiling fan.
4) Line up at the (only) gate and walk through metal detector that is
turned off. Get patted down, and get asked "do have a cigarette lighter,"
to which the answer is always "no."
5) Walk out to the airplane and get patted down again. Don't make the
mistake of standing in the shorter line, as this is the women's line.
6) Stow your luggage and you're off.
2 comments:
Ha ha...do you mean shorter line, as in that it has fewer people, or the people in it are shorter? Did you not notice anything specific about the line before queueing up in it?
Have you noticed that for "official/business" activities like taking a flight, that there are more men than women? Is the preponderence significantly more than the US?
Yes, as in fewer people -- and fortunately I didn't make this mistake, but someone else did and the guards shooed him out of that line. At first he was upset because he lost his place in a short line... then realized why.
There are definitely more men in "official/business" activities like flights. Women can be high up (several gov't ministers, for example) but it seems to be more rare than in the states.
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