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Salvador International Airport Passenger Reviews and Traveller Reports
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SALVADOR INT'L AIRPORT customer review : 24 June 2011 by R Casa (Brazil)
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Customer Rating : 1/5 |
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Although there is little traffic at SSA, there will always be long lines. This
is especially true for international flights. Although there may be only one
international flight leave in 3 hrs, immigration will take 1 hr. And beware of
the arrival of 2 international flights within 1 hr. You will see the typical Brazilian
chaos!
SALVADOR INT'L AIRPORT customer review : 26 February 2010 by A Hijmans (Brazil)
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Customer Rating : 4/5 |
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Travellers arriving into SSA on international flights beware: most of the cash machines in the
airport, for some unfathomable reason, cease service at 23:59. Particularly inconvenient since
TAP and Air Europa flights from Lisbon and Madrid arrive shortly before midnight, leaving
international travellers with no Brazilian money. This happened to me for the second time now
which suggests it is a continuous issue. There are three cash machines in the revamped Banco
do Brasil right next to international arrivals which accept foreign (maestro / cirrus) cards,
but they only issue a maximum of R$100 per card, which is just about enough for a taxi ride to
the city centre and a beer. Apart from this major issue which is strictly speaking not
Infraero's fault but the banks', SSA still remains an efficient and pleasant airport.
SALVADOR INT'L AIRPORT customer review : 8 January 2010 by Richard Millard
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Customer Rating : 3/5 |  |
This is an efficient and well-equipped airport. For travellers on AA, beware that ground
staff and security don't seem to communicate. The security channel for US departures remained
closed until beyond the scheduled time of departure, with no explanation given. The departure
boards didn't show that there was a 90 minute delay, and instead left all boarding passengers
to wait outside the secure area. This seems to be a specific AA problem.
SALVADOR INT'L AIRPORT customer review : 12 March 2009 by Manel Rilo
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Customer Rating : 5/5 |  |
Nice medium size airport. Looks new (or revamped) and spotless clean. Easy to move around and
offers enough services. Serious but very efficient staff, which is all I ask for. Fast check
in, fast security, even going through passport control was relatively fast (it was a late fly
though, so there wasn't many people).
SALVADOR INT'L AIRPORT customer review : 17 May 2008 : by A Hijmans
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Customer Rating : 3/5 | |
On the whole SSA is everything you'd expect a medium-sized airport to be. It's spacious, well-
signposted, and safe. Check-in is usually fast (except for charter flights to Europe), security is
fast and friendly, domestic arrival also fast and efficient. The one major problem at SSA are the
long queues at customs in the afternoon when several international flights arrive pretty much at the
same time. If you don't carry a Brazilian passport, expect to stand in line for over an hour.
There are just enough shops and food amenities. SSA is still (thankfully) first and foremost an
airport, not a shopping mall. If you are taking a bus from the city centre to the airport (or vice
versa) be aware that traffic in Salvador is horrendous and the journey at peak times will take at
least two hours.
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