Boarding

Making it through the security and waiting for about an hour till I can board, I started to make my way down to the gate. As I get there, there is a huge queue for those flying to Bucharest all the way up the stairs. I was waiting on the stairs with everyone else.

Ten minutes passed, woman starts shouting out about the flights to Malaga from the gate next to the one we're all queuing for. It was closing. One man makes his way down.

Five minutes later, a man comes down the stairs, looks at the gate, the wrong gate, and then thinks that we're all in the queue for Malaga, not Bucharest. He walks back up and out of the door at the top of the stairs. Woman comes around the corner and again screams that the gate is now closing.

Another five minutes pass, woman reappears saying the exact same thing. This was then followed with about four more people coming down the stairs to get on the flight.

How many people can be late for the same flight, and how many times can the gate close?!

Anyway,

We start heading through to get to the room before we exit the building and get on the plane. As the woman at the front is checking everyone's passports and boarding passes, I noticed that there was a divider, those with priority boarding and those without "all other passengers". So naturally, I started queuing at the non priority part. Turns out everyone was queuing in the same queue with no regard for what was intended.

Someone was kind enough to let me get back in the queue, woman/hostess/employee says I need to go to the back of the other (non-existent) queue because this was only for priority boarding.

So anyway, I went back a few people instead and remained in the only line. She then let me through and told me to stand to the right.

There was another divider in the next room, one for priority and one for all other passengers.

We all had to wait in the next room anyway and wait for everyone to come through to that room.

Moving on.

Priority boarding customers were let out of the building first to board the plane.
Woman in charge walks off.
Other passengers walk out of the door with all the priority boarding customers.
Woman runs back and stops any more customers running out.

We're all on the plane and we take off.


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