I'm glad to hear it was a bit better for you! Airports really are the worst. I kind of feel like after 9/11 everyone felt like they were given a free pass to just be jerks. Like everyone is a potential terrorist or something.
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I think that I had set the bar so low that I was going to be pleased with simply not being threatened constantly. I was extremely impressed but also the fact that I didn't really need to hurry at all might have been a factor as well.
That definitely helps. Having to rush from one flight to another connecting flight is a whole different level of stress!
well with a 13 hour layover that certainly wasn't an issue. I was trying so hard to be the last person that one of the entrances to customs was closed before I got there. Not like a rope line indicating you shouldn't go forward, but a big, super-secure security wall-like door that you would need a tank to get though. I thought I was going to be trapped but nah, just needed to backtrack a bit and go the other way.
I'm glad you made it out! There's definitely a fine line between having too long of a layover and being pressed for time so that you have to dash from one end of the airport to the other. I've been on the end of both!
oh and about the post 9/11 stuff absolutely. Homeland didn't really exist before then and once the new recruits were given jobs and authority I believe they were unchecked for a very long time. I really do believe that the World Cup might have sorted some of that out. Lets just hope it can last
Fingers crossed!