Huge airport and modern this Dubai one is. We landed after five I’m the morning and it took almost an hour to go through the security check. This is for passengers in transit, who had been checked at least somewhat at the origin. Yet late but safe is better than the opposite, I suppose. There is wireless net for free in here and notebook charging stations at every gate. I’m adding up some juice to my E71 as I’m writing this. I managed to find the only two restaurants that sell beer in here and it is amazing they have them. It makes good business sense. In a country where most don’t or shouldn’t do any sort of drinking, it seems ok (not to me) to pay USD11 for a pint of Heiniken. I didn’t. I bought a bottle of pretty good orange juice for USD1. I met a lady from NZ who was travelling to Cape Town and we almost browsed some duty free shops before she boarded for South Africa. There isn’t much to buy unless you are a smoker or a tight millionaire. And I presume many of the passengers who use this airport are a bit of both. I had a wee mishap with my gate, again. When I landed, the Vienna flight was listed at gate 210. I want there and it’s not close and there are very few departure displays. At that gate I saw that my flight had become the only one not listed with any gate at all.
For an hour or so, no gate, then 229, which is a few good minutes towards the Eastern end of this terminal. I gotta go now, I have a few Dirhams to spend and I don’ttp know on what.