This is one of the more colorful and entertaining threads on Pprune. I was at the shiny, not new, but remodeled terminal of the only international airport in a certain country on the equator, next to kenya and Uganda. They installed floor to ceiling windows. The ceiling were at least 15 meters high. I was taking a boys trip to Bujumbura Burundi and travelling on the national airline of said country. The windows look out into the ramp. The windows were promptly covered by advertisements and made opaque. They called the flight for Burundi in the local language and not in English. I almost missed my flight as I didn’t know they were boarding as the announcement wasn’t in English and you couldn’t see the plane. Furthermore, I had to buy a ticket, even though I was a Captain for said airline. They couldn’t even get me a rebate ticket.