Clipper Lounge at Mumbai Int'l BOM

Going Home

Our driver picked us up at 11:00PM and we arrived at the dumpy old International departures terminal just before midnight. With the new International Terminal under construction beside the old one, traffic was pretty slow.  The same drill as at JAI with ticketed pax allowed in the terminal. As we had already checked in, we headed for passport control and security. There is priority passport control but not priority security. It took about 30 minutes total as multiple airlines crews kept cutting the lines.

Clipper Lounge
Mumbai International (BOM)

While Emirates and British have their own lounges, Jet and a host of others use something called the Clipper Lounge, located opposite Gate 14. Unfortunately my "same day EK Business flight from CMB and First flight from DXB" were not good enough to get us past the "only at the departure airport" EK dragon.

So we were stuck with this dump. Ratty seating, basic alcoholic and soft drinks, and food that falls into either the unappetizing or scary categories. Making matters worse, with a bunch of post-midnight departures, the place was packed.

Almost forgot a couple of iphone pics that I had taken when I tempted fate by actually trying to use the loo in the Clipper Lounge.  These pics are pretty representative of the whole Clipper Lounge experience.