{"id":1450,"date":"2007-10-23T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T05:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2007-10-23T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T05:02:11","slug":"foreign-policy-agrees-dakar-airport-is-worst-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/23\/foreign-policy-agrees-dakar-airport-is-worst-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy agrees, Dakar airport is worst worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ask a Pilot<\/a> said it first, and FP<\/a> confirms:<\/p>\n

Why it\u2019s so bad: Because it\u2019s standing room only. As a regional hub, an ordeal at Senghor is often unavoidable for travelers to West Africa. Once you\u2019re in the terminal, don\u2019t plan on relaxing: There are no seats, and guards will advise you to stop loitering if you hang around in one spot too long. Immigration lines can take up to three hours. And in any event, it\u2019s best to keep moving since you can expect to be surrounded by vendors selling counterfeit goods and unofficial \u201cporters\u201d who will pressure you into hiring their services if you happen to come to a standstill. But the good news is that help may be on the way. The Senegalese government has begun construction on a new airport set to open in 2010, which will double the country\u2019s air passenger capacity. No word yet on whether the new terminal will actually have chairs.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ask a Pilot said it first, and FP confirms: Why it\u2019s so bad: Because it\u2019s standing room only. As a regional hub, an ordeal at Senghor is often unavoidable for travelers to West Africa. Once you\u2019re in the terminal, don\u2019t plan on relaxing: There are no seats, and guards will advise you to stop loitering if you hang around in one spot too long. Immigration lines can take up to three hours. And in any event, it\u2019s best to keep…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-senegal","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-no","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}