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Bangalore International Airport fucking sucks.  It's an execrable, typically Third World experience.  Not even Quito's airport at its worst, during construction, was as bad as this.  Only two X-ray machines for everyone, and the metal detectors were so sensitive that i think they were just motion sensors, so the security people ended up waving a wand at every single passenger.  And the "line" to board was a crush of people shifting about, trying to jockey for position — almost identical to the way people drive in Bangalore, and a few people were in the wrong line and almost missed their flight to Bangkok; while some of the blame goes to them for being clueless tourists, the staff's announcements were made by Charlie Brown's parents.

Bangalore is the IT capital of India, so it stands to reason that it's been shuttling a lot more people over at least the last 5 years.  Why hasn't the airport been improved?  Infrastructure is dismal throughout the city, but you'd think the one part that handles the foreigners would be the one that gets attention, for many reasons.  I'm glad i took Gowda's advice to show up 3 hours early, especially because traffic was quite bad (afternoon rush hour, doncha know).