I am leaving to visit South America, specifically Bolivia, Peru & Chile. I arrive early at the airport to find the que huge and even have to que to get into the immigration section, all up it took me 40mins to get through.
I was however, one of the lucky ones! Shortly after I got through security there was a power outage at the international terminal and all the machines went down.
A fellow passenger who got caught between immigration and the security screening told me there were about 1000 people forced to sit on the floor while they worked to restore power. as they weren´t allowed to go back and couldn´t go forward.
It must have been chaos out there as every person would have to be manually screened and baggage checked.
We were supposed to depart at 10:30am but because of the chaos we didn´t board till after 12:00 fortunately I had a complimentary Qantas lounge pass, the international lounge is significantly better than the domestic food wise :)
Any way we finally left at 13:45 after the last passenger had cleared security.
One upside was that because of the massive delay the Captain announced that they were going to increase their airspeed to shorten the travel time by 50mins.
My flight to Boliva boards in 15 mins so I´d better be off
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