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Patrick,
Have you never been to Lagos' domestic airport? Dakar to a power of 10. Not only that, but Lagos has seperate airports for domestic and international flights. I discovered this to my great surprise only after arriving from Dubai on a luxurious Emirates flight. Fortunately a friendly Australian election monitor (talk about a lost cause in Nigeria) gave me a lift to the filthy, criminal-ridden shanty that serves as the domestic airport in time for me to catch my Bellview Airlines flight to Abuja. The same plane on the same route crashed a month later, killing all aboard!
As for CDG, that has my vote for Worst First World airport. On a recent connection through there we arrived at one terminal, deplaned, took a circuitous bus trip to the terminal where our connecting flight was supposed to board. Went through security again, walked a couple of miles through empty corridors, got to the gate, checked in, THEN BOARDED A BUS THAT TOOK US BACK TO OUR ORIGINAL TERMINAL, where the plane was actually located. Tres gallic..
And a general comment: Why do airport concessions close well before flights stop departing?
