Only problem I had was it was way too stuffy.

>>The security guards at the entrance are >>overzealous and have delusions of grandeur.
Well, my short experiance with them is quite different. No such problems. Maybe the guy just had a bad day. You need to hook them up with “printouts” of your blog, that would get them into a better mood.

Now as much as you guys are all saying “Oh other people’s airports are better”, Kenyans are a whole lot more polite.
So let me have the quote “big, poorly designed, stuffy and as comfortable as sand filled y-fronts.” end quote, and be treated like a person, than be stuck in the air conditioned, free internet terminal where I am treated like a cockroach just coz of the colour of my skin.

There are few more watchable reporters than this chap.

Corruption in Kenya is no longer straight-forward ‘commissions’ but I bet muhoho-ho-ho has a deal where he gets to supply the Qataris with materials… at inflated prices!

Or they will buy him a house in Dubai…

Chang-Ki… nah… just google it…

Guess it comes from having to build an airport on an island…

I like the way you turned the joke on vituvingisana. He shouldnt even have bothered to look. Hope the reconstruction taking place comes out looking like Chang-Ki

It’s been a while since I went through the trials of departing from JKIA but no sockets? I’m shocked!

I’ve become an expert air traveler -light and comfortable – but I’ll admit that I’ve committed my share of faux pas due to my flawed rookie training.

Being a stranger in an even stranger place has it’s benefits and you can get away with a lot of shenanigans – it can’t be helped. Still, I prefer the relative security of an English speaking population, however elementary. I had an unsettling experience as an unaccompanied minor after being grounded in Rome. Many years later, as a grown up, I could navigate my way through The Kingdom of Bhutan and love it [if I had to].

Interesting that Singapore’s Chang-Ki/Chiangi airport came up. Hasn’t it been mentioned somewhere that Kenya’s “economy” was on par with Singapore’s long before most people on this blog were born? They’ve outdone themselves those Singaporeans! Time to thumb through Self Reliance for Dummies? Hopefully a used copy with all the important parts already highlighted [assuming it worked for the former owner] :)

JKIA – yes, u funny chap – has no working sockets for the hoi polloi but I had to learn the hard way… no?