オシでの調整の仕事を終え、モスクワに戻りました。寒いっす。しかしようやく落ち着けます。家はいいもんです。というわけで、今回の長かった出張の最終記事です。
オシ空港のウェブサイトによると、オシ空港とオシ市内は、市内東部だと107番、西部だと142番で結ばれています。中心部は東部にあり、中央市場Центральный рынокから乗れます。地図によってルート表示に差異があるのですが、オシはヤンデックスが一番正確でした。
中央市場の辺りはこのようになっています。写真右手のエリア全体が市場で、中に進入すると食品や衣類のバザールが広がっています。
オシ空港の出発ターミナル内。カウンターはこれだけです。電光掲示板にはフライトごとの受付カウンター番号が書かれていますが、カウンターに番号はなし。ひとまず係員のいるところに並んで行先と航空会社名を告げると受け付けてもらえました。軽度のカルチャーショック。
国際線の保安検査場には、カウンターの左隣から入ります。国内線はそのさらに左側の渡り廊下を通過します。
出国審査にはほとんど人が並んでいなかったのであっという間に終わりました。保安検査場もかなり人が少なくてスムーズ。そして飲み物のペットボトルは開封済みのものでも持ち込み可能で、ファンタの2リットルボトルを持っている人々がかなりいました。空港の売店で百数十ソムで売られている飲み物は、街中の商店だとその数分の一で買えるので、ほとんどの人が最初から持ち込んでいるように見受けられました。
なお、待合室に入る前に、もう一度パスポートと搭乗券をチェックされました。
キルギスの航空会社は安全上の理由ですべてEUへの乗り入れが禁止されているので一抹の不安を抱えながら飛びましたが、フライトそのものは普通の地方線でした。ただ子供連れが非常に多く、通常なら乳幼児はバシネットに乗せ、通路最前列に設置するところ、この航空会社ではお母さんたちが膝の上に抱いて乗せていました。赤ちゃんも親も大変です。
隣の席のキルギス人と話したところ、キルギスからは今でもロシアに出稼ぎに行く人が多いし、むしろ増えているとのこと。ちなみにウズベキスタンからの労働移民は減っているのですが、キルギスは国内にそんなに仕事がないし、例のコンサートホールの事件でアジア人の取り締まりが強化されてからも、タジク人とは顔立ちがまったく違うので間違えられることもないのだそうです。
着陸すると拍手が起こりました。ほっと一息。
このフライトはドモジェドヴォ空港着で、このときの入国審査はロシア人とそれ以外ではなく、出発地別に仕分けられていました。列はあまり長くなく、比較的早く順番が来たのでそれも良し。
そうそう、ドモジェドヴォ空港を久しぶりに利用したのですが、
９月一ヶ月の長かった出張もこれにて終了。今からゆっくり風呂に浸かることにします。自宅万歳！
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After finishing my work on the adjustment, I returned to Moscow. It's cold, but at least I can finally relax. Home is good. So, this is the final article in this long business trip.
According to the Osh Airport website, Osh Airport and the city of Osh are connected by bus routes 107 (eastern part of the city) and 142 (western part of the city). The city center is in the eastern part of the city, and you can get on at the Central Market (Центральный рынок). There are differences in the route displays on different maps, but Yandex was the most accurate for Osh.
The area around the Central Market is like this. The whole area on the right of the photo is the market, and once you go inside, you'll find a bazaar selling food and clothes.
Buses and minibuses also pass through here. On the other side of the road, there is a river.
The airport website and various maps say that bus number 107 goes to the airport, but I didn't see this bus in the area. Instead, I saw a bus numbered 7 with an airport sign. I got on at the bus stop in the center of the map below. The starting point at the bottom is a bus stop where many other buses and marshrutkas arrive and depart, and I didn't check it, but I think you can also get on from here.
Here comes bus number 7. This one is also 10kg per person. The final destination is the airport.
We arrived at Osh International Airport in about 30 minutes. The departure terminal is on the right, and the arrival terminal is on the left.
There are coffee shops and mobile phone company kiosks in the square in front of the airport.
Inside the departure terminal at Osh Airport. This is the only counter. The electronic display shows the counter numbers for each flight, but there are no numbers on the counter. For the time being, I lined up at the counter where the staff were and told them my destination and airline name, and they accepted me. A mild culture shock.
There was also a currency exchange counter. The rates at the banks in town are slightly better.
There were a number of ATMs from various banks lined up at the end of the terminal. You can rely on them outside of the exchange office opening hours.
To get to the security check for international flights, you enter from the left side of the counter. For domestic flights, you pass through the corridor on the left side of that.
There were hardly any people in line for passport control, so it was over in no time at all. There were also very few people at the security check, so it was smooth. And it was possible to bring in pre-opened PET bottles of drinks, and there were quite a few people carrying 2-liter bottles of Fanta. Drinks that cost around 100 som at the airport shops could be bought for a fraction of the price in the shops in town, so it seemed that most people had brought their own drinks with them from the start.
Before entering the waiting room, your passport and boarding pass were checked again.
In front of the boarding gate. There are no boarding gates numbered on this single floor. This is probably sufficient because there are not many international flights.
Avia Traffic Company's flight to Moscow. This was the end of the journey.
All flights to the EU from Kyrgyzstan are banned for safety reasons, so I flew with a slight sense of unease, but the flight itself was a normal regional flight. However, there were a lot of people with children, and while normally infants would be placed in a bassinet and installed in the front row of the aisle, on this airline the mothers carried them on their laps. It's tough for both the babies and the parents.
I spoke to a Kyrgyz person sitting next to me, and he told me that many people from Kyrgyz still go to Russia to work, and that the number is actually increasing. Incidentally, the number of labor migrants from Uzbekistan is decreasing, but there are not that many jobs in Kyrgyz, and even after the crackdown on Asians was strengthened following the incident at the concert hall, they are not mistaken for Tajiks because their facial features are completely different.
When we landed, there was applause. I breathed a sigh of relief.
This flight landed at Domodedovo Airport, and at the time, immigration was divided into Russians and non-Russians, with people sorted by their point of departure. The line wasn't very long, and we were called in relatively quickly, so that was good too.
Oh, by the way, it's been a while since I've used Domodedovo Airport, but the route connecting the terminal and the train station has changed, and although the Aeroexpress platform is easily accessible to everyone, I had a lot of trouble finding the electric train (regular train) platform.
My long business trip for the whole month of September is now over. I'm going to take a nice long bath now. Long live home!
