Surprise! Arrivals dashbaord in QAIA
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Went to pick up my dad from the airport tonight. Mom went in before me to see if we are at the right terminal and if the flight arrived or not (since 4457200 stopped working by the way, ringing endlessly!) She called and said that the arrivals dashboard said that it was delayed. So I parked and went in.
At 11:25 I read the dashboard my self and it said it arrived at 11:21 pm. super cool. 15 min and dad should be out there waving for us! Mom said no its delayed, and i say no it arrived. Turns out she was looking at the Arabic dashboard while i was looking at the English one. Fantastic!
11:40, I call dad and ask him where he is, assuming he’s either at immigration or waiting for luggage. to my surprise he told me he was just walking out of the plane.
I say that’s weird. I go check the dashboard again and this time it says arrived on 11:30 on the English screen. The Arabic screen logged the flight “delayed” at 11:25.
(Dammam flight)
I didn’t for one min ever doubt that the data source for the English dashboard is different than the Arabic one. What kind of system even if coded some 20 years ago would log a different schedule in English than in Arabic.
I guess its one of those “only in Jordan/Arabia” kind of things!
I was there the other day when the flight from Cyprus still said ‘delayed’ in English when my friend walked out!
As well they have two systems online one for booking & another for Frequent Flyer. So you have to fill up the same data twice. Up to having two user names & passwords if my memory don’t betray me.