Cairo Points for Cairo

I came. I saw Cairo International Airport's new Terminal 1 Arrival Hall 3. I doled out Cairo points to a city in desperate need of some.

Cairo is a city of irony. Everyone is in a rush, yet nobody is ever on time. The greatest day for the military is a day that the military didn't actually win. The best fuul is across the street from the Canadian Embassy and in one of the nicer parts of town. And...that the new arrival hall is officially considered to be part of the "Old Airport."

How confusing. The "new airport," aka. Terminal 2, is in fact a disaster zone. It was built in the 70's to replace the Old Heliopolis airport, or Terminal 1. Modifications are now being made to the old airport so that it currently contains more "newness" than its counterpart. Terminal 3 is being constructed somewhere amongst the maze of roads and will be connected via sky bridge with the new airport...or was that the old airport?

Either way, rule #1 for picking someone up at the airport in this city: know which terminal they are arriving in. The arrival board in Terminal 1 doesn't contain flights for Terminal 2 and vice versa.

Not that I made this mistake, however I turned out to be incredibly lucky to meet Jenny and Claire last weekend. I had no idea which terminal they were arriving in, so as I was travelling through the dense Cairean fog, I chose #2. When I arrived, none of the boards were working and it was only because I had earned enough good karma with the transportation ruling body that the two girls happened to be arriving in that terminal as well.