Norwich airport charges departing passengers a fee of £10 an adult to pass through their miserable little facility. Last year 462,248 passengers, the greater proportion of whom might presumably be grown ups, passed through the airport. That must represent a significant income for someone? Yet another year now goes by and the abysmal passenger facilities at EGSH continue to disgust. The combination of Nissan hut style ablutions, sludge serving self service cafeterias and what passes for an Executive Lounge serve only to remind one that this airport is a place that needs an excuse to be used as a travel jump off point. That justification is provided by KLM which runs its multiple shuttle services to EHAM, civilisation and onward connections.
The above paragraph will suffice for departing passengers. Those arriving at Norwich International receive similar treatment to John Le Carre's spy in the cold. The snaky line, the pill box passport control, redolent of something from a WWII black and white move. Then the baggage hall with its exquisite toilet facilities which serve only to remind one how fortunate was the purchase of a bottle of spray scent at duty free. Baggage trolleys that have humped better bags by far and a chicane to the arrival hall exit, worthy of a wobbly wheel children's television programme.
Norwich likes to boast that it is a fine city and that maybe so but as airports go Norwich airport should.