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After our tour van dropped us off at the Cairo airport, I passed the main entrance to enter the airport building and then headed towards security. This is when things seemed to be in disarray and no one knew which queue or section to follow.

At first, the other passengers and I (we were walking together after getting off the tour bus) were instructed to go to one counter to push our luggage through the X-ray machines and they would issue us our boarding passes. When we got there, someone else told us that it was the wrong section and pointed us to somewhere else.

Some people got mad and started arguing with the airport employees. We seemed to get to the right belt at one point. After putting my carry-on on the belt and passing through, I realized that this was not even the main security checkpoint where airport security officers check for liquids and make you go through the body X-Ray scanner gate.

I realized that for additional security measures, the Cairo airport had a double luggage check process. It was time-consuming, but I couldn’t complain because it was to protect everyone.

I passed through the main luggage check section and scanning machines without any incidents and breathed a sigh of relief. I was heading to the First Class Lounge at Terminal 3, as I had free passes to enter under the Priority Pass program.