A little nook of hell

This is not the first time that I have had a stopover on Sao Paolo’s airport, and it has again reinforced into me that I really really hate this airport!!

With the Soccer World Cup being held in Brazil in 2014, I read that there are some serious improvements and reconstruction done throughout Brazil, but especially on the airport – which sure as hell needed it. This time I did not fret as much recalling the endless snaking queues I stood in previously, for hours! Like being at Disneyland, except longer queues, nothing exciting or pretty to look at and trapped in a stuffy unhygienic cesspool of people… as they have been upgrading and reconstructing.

 

From being at this horrid airport the previous time (8-9 years ago?) until now, the only thing that has changed is that there are even more people forced into this tiny unventilated place, as flights ( from SAA at least) only do stop-overs in Sao Paolo now, no more Buenos Aires; and 2 new coffee shops – but all this squeezed into the same amount of square meterage. 

Whoever wrote and published that article sure must be having quite a laugh, well played, you sure fooled me.

All flights are delayed and some serious gate hopping takes place, which can be a serious problem if you have a connecting flight to catch somewhere else that you may very well miss (and make no mistake this is your problem not the airport staff or airlines’).

In my opinion the only way in which to upgrade this airport is to just bulldoze the entire thing flat and start over, with better planning  - much better planning.

I can only imagine the utter chaos that will be, when time for the soccer world cup draws near, and even more people and fligts from across the world descend upon this little nook of unorganised hell.

For anyone planning on going to the SWC, I would start hoping and praying and sending smoke signals to any and all gods and karma that this might not be the case, and that by some miracle there is a smidge of organization that kicks in before then, because a miracle is what they need.