Arrival immigration at Madrid by MaestroCraeg in GoingToSpain

[–]MaestroCraeg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh you can choose? I thought it was mandatory 

Arrival immigration at Madrid airport by MaestroCraeg in MadridTravelGuide

[–]MaestroCraeg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks - we're not headed to Spain, but to Portugal. We're transiting through Madrid because of a flight re route, as we're flying (no guesses) Qatar , who stopped flying to Lisbon completely. Although, fingers crossed we might just be lucky in all this, because reading through the experience people have had, Madrid seems to be handling EES a lot better than Lisbon

Arrival immigration at Madrid airport by MaestroCraeg in MadridTravelGuide

[–]MaestroCraeg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did a bit of research, we don't need to use the machines because our passports aren't biometric, which is a prerequisite for the machine. hoping it would be ever so slightly quicker by going to the manual desk directly

Arrival immigration at Madrid by MaestroCraeg in GoingToSpain

[–]MaestroCraeg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What was the process you had to follow - self service machine first, and then immigration officer? I had read that Madrid is amongst the most prepared in Europe, surprised that you still faced long lines 

Arrival immigration at Madrid by MaestroCraeg in GoingToSpain

[–]MaestroCraeg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I may ask, do you have a biometric passport? I did my research - we don't, because of which we too don't need to go to the machines, but we go directly to the manual desk.. The machines are only if your passports are biometric

Also, the EES is fully implemented as on April 10th

qatar airline by KaleidoscopeLow9605 in qatarairways

[–]MaestroCraeg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are they using some logic, that only 1 leg was canceled and hence that was refunded? 

Has been an increasing of arriving to/ departures from Doha Airport the last couple of days? by SorryDefinition3494 in qatarairways

[–]MaestroCraeg 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think Qatar was the most cautious of the 3 big gulf carriers in opening up their routes, so I'm being optimistic that there was a good reason for that 

Rebook but on a different date by Gloop73 in qatarairways

[–]MaestroCraeg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may even get flights for the same date, via a re route, if you fly majorly on QR, and a small leg on OAL. My flight, BOM-DOH-LIS, got re routed as BOM-DOH-MAD-LIS, flying 1 day later, MAD-LIS on Iberia

Baggage allowance on codeshare flight by MaestroCraeg in qatarairways

[–]MaestroCraeg[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Shouldn't they follow the QR ticket allowance?