Luke Maxwell Review of PAPHOS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (...
We entered the airport from the uk on the 1st June...
We entered the airport from the uk on the 1st June 2016 in the evening. Clearing security was a complete disaster and took 1 hour and 40 minutes. All the queues were slow but we ended up in the far left queue where they bring anyone who needs to bypass the queue such as anyone who works at the airport, anyone who is in a wheelchair or anyone else deemed unfit to queue. Couple this with the worlds slowest passport guard and we were almost 2 hours to enter the country.
Coming home again on the 8th June and another complete nightmare. We had checked in online but that made no difference. Once we had dropped the bags we were fed into a queue to end all queues. Stage 1 queue for automatic boarding card scan, around 30 minutes... Stage 2 continue the queuing immediately after the boarding card check. Queue for passport check (although they also checked boarding cards again having already checked them by electronic means at stage 1) now if you were unlucky enough to be allocated a queue on the right side (as we were) once through stage 2 you then had to allow anyone who had cleared the queue to your left into the next queue for security ahead of you so stage 2 was close to 50 minutes for us before we were into the clear queue for stage 3 security. Having so many people in the airport you would expect security to be running at full capacity, alas no 1 lane reserved for 'express security' and 1/2 the remaining lanes closed. So in total we were in the 'queue' for the best part of 2 hours.
I will not return to this airport again having been through the utter madness. Clearly under staffed, under resourced with too many flights arriving and departing on a Wednesday night for some reason.

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