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Tashkent Airport by Dave Stanley

23 August 2007   Customer Rating :

A year on and no improvement! The customs delays are worse than ever. The officials seem determined to work as slowly as they can. Then there are long queues at immigration and finally another security check with a long queue. Once you are through all this you will not have time for a drink at the bar, which is no loss as it is terrible anyway.

Tashkent Airport by Dave Stanley

24 September 2006   Customer Rating : n/a

I use Tashkent airport frequently. It is such a shame that the airport infrastructure is very good, it is just the awful way that it is operated that lets it down. Whether it is the inexplicable wait for luggage when you are on the only flight arriving or the crazy check- in/customs bureaucracy or the only bar in the departure area that does not accept local currency, there is always something to cause problems. jumping queues seems to be a birth right for some of the locals. If an Uzbek lady runs past you in the queue for customs clearance shouting 'Istanbul, Istanbul', don't be fooled. She wants you to think she is late for a flight. Like many others she is just trying to jump the queue! Tashkent is a wonderful place, it just needs a change in attitude in places like the airport to make people feel welcome.

Tashkent Airport by Mark Bickerton

11 February 2006

Tashkent airport is quite modern in design, but tries hard to retain a flavour of Soviet bureaucracy in its overall service. I have been asked for bribes by check-in staff at least three times, and one time had to spend 10 mins trying to find a member of staff so I could check in (the desk said 'Check in Open'). When I located someone, I was eventually told there was no seat for me (which means 'give me money and there will be') so I had to argue with him to get my confirmed seat. There is not much to do at this airport; the gate cafe is rubbish and only accepts US Dollars. If you are stuck there because of a delay, try to get out of the airport and go to a nearby choykhana or shashlik place. I spent a very nice few hours just sitting in the sun outside the domestic terminal once, which was much better than being stuck inside the terminal. The cafe (upstairs) at the domestic terminal is quite nice.

Tashkent Airport by Dave Stanley

29 January 2006

I passed through three times in December/January. My fist was arriving from Sharjah. It took two hours for our luggage to be returned and to get through customs. There were also delays on the other visits. If you can manage with cabin baggage, it could save a lot of problems. One of our flights leaving was delayed (BA). We were left to freeze in an unheated corridor. Business class check in can be very slow because the customs officials when they eventually turn up are very slow. Customs procedures are pretty painful, with forms to fill out arriving and departing.

Tashkent Airport by Manoj Kalair

21 November 2005

On route to India from Heathrow, we had a 5 hour stop over at Tashkent airport. The staff are fine and the building was fairly modern. There is a bar but no restaurant or cafe. The big disappointment are the wash/WC facilities. The toilets were hole in the floor type and there were only 2 sinks with no hand wash or hand towels of dryers. They were unclean, unhygienic as well as the foul smell to put up with. This is well below international standards and the women;ps wash/WC facilities were the same. Not acceptable when hundreds of people are waiting there for connecting flights.

Tashkent Airport by Dave Stanley

25 October 2005

The airport is fairly small but is modern. I had no problems with the staff. There is a design fault with the luggage carousels which causes them to jam and many of the bags to fall off - a minor irritation. Departing, the only problem is the lack of a cafe/restaurant. If there is one, I did not find it.

Tashkent Airport by Keith Partington

30 November 2004

Following a diversion on my British Mediterranean Airways flight from LHR to nearby Bishkek, I finally arrived 18 hours late. I reckon we sped through the anticipated hell that was immigration, customs and baggage because it was late at night. With a sigh of relief (after less than an hour following touch down) I emerged into the tiniest arrivals hall you could imagine. No proper cafe facilities, just a counter selling unfamiliar snack bars and cheap gifts and several eager taxi drivers wanting my custom. Departures was no better for facilities (one small impersonal circular bar at the gate area) but the check in area was bright with liberal use of marble.

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