Originally Posted by
washingtondave
Also, I remember arriving at a terminal from where you were bussed to the other side of the airport, to virtually return to the same terminal.
Reminds me of Helsinki once, connecting from London to a Finnish domestic flight, with a quite reasonable connection. Notable departure delay from Heathrow (of course), plus a significant VOR hold approaching Helsinki due to congestion, put us on the ground there quite late, and unusually an arrival onto a remote stand. Wait to fill the bus, drive across to the non-Schengen gates, queue for immigration, then the long trek down the corridor between international and domestic, back through security, sprint down to the furthest gate, which turned out to be a bus again, off round the ramp, to the very next remote stand to the incoming London aircraft, which of course was still there. I could have crossed from one to the other in about 20 seconds.