The passport control rant

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Passport control rant

Yes, sometimes even a positive thinking mind - like me - need to get rid of some negative feelings.

Today I went home from Bangkok and as you read the title, I had to spend to much time in the waiting queue at the passport control.

New huge airport

The nice Suvarnabhumi International Airport or in Thai ท่าอากาศยานสุวรรณภูมิ looks cool and need to offer a better service to control travelers.

So what to do in the queue?

Write a passport control rant

First I said a not writeable f-word, as I hate useless spent lifetimes due the reason from somebody else.

But what to do. I decide to write.

Who is the one we can blame?

More and more people travel but with a little bit of math a normal smart brain should be able to figure out how many people will show up for a flight. From there you might add the
Planes ✈️ who are leaving and make a short calculation by using the departure time.

WHO
CAN
WE
BLAME
?

Out of this you get a nice overview and from there you might be able to calculate the amount of Passport control points which will bring you to the amount of passport inspectors you need including adding some overhead for people being sink or on vacation.

So what

No make your bloody homework and make the right amount of people show up for work.

OR, as we life in digital times, get some more of this automatic control machines as this technology scales way better than human.

30 Minutes extra

Now, after taking a lot of picture from this wonderful not yet used machines I luckily arrive in from of a nice gentleman who seems to have a great job. He has to stamp several times some tiny piece of paper and is allowed to look very angry - for me sad - while he is doing his job