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Review of Yugoslav Air Transport

The most horrible experience I've ever had at an i...

The most horrible experience I've ever had at an international airport. Staff who work at the international airport do not speak English, aren't informative and are rude.
The corrupted custom officers try to pin you for anything that looks expensive in your suitcase before you're able to declare what you have.
They hope for you to bribe them after telling you how much tax they want you to pay, however if you don't, they will confiscated all items until your departure out of Serbia.
Our short stay in Serbia was to attend a wedding, the custom officers confiscated our clothing/accessories that we were going to wear to the wedding. We had to then re-purchase clothing/accessories (rather do this than pay money for their pockets).
The custom officers then accused us of taking photos of them (which was not true) so they called the police to investigate our phones, even after they themselves investigated our phones and found no photos of them.
They have wasted our time and ruined our short stay.
Before our departure we need to organise for a shipping agency to process paperwork for the release of our confiscated items and pay a fee for this, which we only became aware of after being told by the embassy, not being told by the custom officers.
All the stress, waste of time and money could have been avoided if the custom officers were legit and could speak English.
A review and cleanup of corruption at the airport needs to be done immediately to avoid unnecessary situations like this.