Montréal Airport

I was told to arrive at 3am for a 6am flight. I telephoned Delta to be sure and they checked and said it opened at 3.30. At 3.30 the machines started to work but there were no agents taking bags - they didn't arrive until 4.00. Security and US customs had similar 50 minute waits. Finally in the departure zone, the gate numbers weren't posted. A friendly agent was looking for her gate number on her phone and told me mine too.

Worst queuing for security and immigration: each queue was about 45 minutes in all, more than 90 minutes. Many people almost missed their plane even if they arrived more than 2 hours before the flight. Lack of personnel, complicated process for immigration. Uncaring personnel.

We arrived into Montréal Airport 1/2 hour late only to find long queues in a huge warehouse-like building with hundreds of other passengers all walking through a cattle-like walkway up to immigration officers. This process through to immigration was chaotic at times and with passengers looking to get through to connecting flights, almost frantic. This process took 1.7 hours to go through only to find that immigration officers were leaving their shifts and no one was replacing them. These lines then became null and void. We then had to merge with existing lines, which made the process more of a bottleneck and mess. This unbelievable congestion of 100's of passengers was only made worst by more and more passengers coming through while signs were lit throughout reading "Welcome to Canada". Are they serious? I will ver go through Montréal airport ever again and will recommend the same to anyone else.

Staff at the security were unprofessional, rude and incompetent. The terminal of Air Canada Jazz is old, needs a serious refresh and an improvement of confort. At this airport, you don't feel welcome in Montréal. It's a disgrace. I will definitely avoid this airport in the future.

This airport is an absolute joke and not fit for purpose. Repeated two hour waits for immigration with queues starting as you get off the plane. The staff seem to think it's acceptable to leave your luggage in random corners of the luggage hall with no signs. Something urgently needs to be done to improve this airport and the experience arriving international passengers have, it is a national embarrassment.

We arrived on 1/09/2015 and encountered a queue in a corridor of about 60 metres just a short walk from the plane. We waited in this queue for over a hour and all the airport staff did was ask if you had a Canadian passport you could go to the front of the line. We asked the two staff who were policing the line how long we would have to wait to get to passport control we received curt and rude answers. We finally got to the end of the corridor only to look down on to the concourse and see a throng of hundreds of people walking up and down the concourse in a line to get to passport control. After another two hours of queuing we finally passed through passport control and headed for the luggage carousels only to find that none of the screens showed which carousel our luggage was on. We asked four members of staff how we were to find our luggage as luggage was scattered all over the luggage area but all we got from them was that you will have to walk around the area and find your luggage yourselves. We found staff curt, rude and uncaring and our first impression of Montreal was disappointing. After another 30 minutes of looking we finally located our luggage and left the airport for our hotel. Montreal is a fabulous city to visit but we will never return after the horrendous experiance and treatment we received from the staff at Montreal airport and advise other travellers if your travelling to Canada to use another entry airport. We have travelled extensively and found Montreal the worst airport in any country we have visited.

Montréal Airport, a real nightmare. Immigration took more than 2 hours

We left in the afternoon on a flight to Munich and noticed that most seats in the airport were taken and some passengers sleeping on them. Very modest offering when it comes to restaurants, the airport appeared very full. Leaving Montreal was acceptable, but returning from Frankfurt in the mid-day time period was awful. Huge line-up of arriving passengers, interminable walking through cattle-like enclosures with immigration officers completely overwhelmed by the crowds. Then looking for our baggage: The carousel was completely overwhelmed as well with 2 rows of baggage, many of the suitcases piled on top of each other,difficult to access or even find. To sum up: Montreal airport is completely overwhelmed by sheer traffic and out-of-control. What a mess, to be avoided if at all possible.

I arrived 3.55pm local time Sept 4th. Customs hall was packed. Queuing on the upper level even to get onto the customs hall floor. I queued over 2 hours to get through customs. No explanation, only info was inaudible tannoy messages. (It was a hot day, why could they not offer drinks of water?). On eventually clearing customs I proceeded to baggage reclaim. Of course my flight was no longer displayed on the screens so I (and everyone else) did not know where to go. Saw a member of staff who asked for flight number and said cases will either be carousel 6 or 8. Wasted time looking and realised they weren't at either. Spoke to someone in authority who said carousel 4 which is where they were. Another long queue to hand in landing card, another longer queue for taxi. Why 2 hour wait in customs hall? Why no info? Why was flight not displayed in baggage reclaim? Why was incorrect info given to passengers? Have those in authority never heard of customer service?

Flew out of this airport for a flight to Italy. I like that they have a security line for travelers with children. We cleared security with no problems in less than 10 min. The airport is clean and easy to navigate. I don't understand how certain people say that the signs are not clear. Travelers to the US complain that the process is slow. Once again I don't understand how this is the airports fault. These are security features imposed by the US governement on Canadian airports. Trudeau has no controll over American custom agents inability to be more efficient. My only complaint is the shear amount of people during rush hours. This airport is too small for the amount of travelers going through.I like the airport has free wi-fi. I dont understand how the previous traveler said she couldn't get FREE wi-fi. This airport is equiped with charging post near the seats. On the return, we arrived during rush hour, usually between 4pm and 7pm, to a sea of people at customs. There must have thousands of people there but the electronic check out system was easy, quick (less than 1 min for 3 travelers) and simple to use. My only complaint was the customs agent that reviewed my claim, he asked me what I had to declare as I was declaring dried fruits. He sends me to extra screening to which that officer after waiting 20 minutes see them asked the same question to which I ansered the same thing as the previous agent and they let me through. I lost an extra 20 min for nothing. We cleared customs and got our bags within an 1 hour. Exit signs are very clear.