Last year I flew out of Sheremetyevo Airport. It was built in the best Soviet traditions and reminded me of the same old Kazansky Railway Station. A particularly interesting incident occurred when, right after arriving from the USA, I decided to visit the restroom, where a picturesque Marya Ivanovna with red hair and bright red lips was cleaning at that moment. To somehow use the restroom, I decided to pretend to be a foreigner who didn't understand what was happening and barge in. However, Baba Masha, standing guard over the freshly washed floor, cut me off with a heavy Russian accent but perfectly correct grammar: "Toilet is closed." I was so shocked that I even lost the urge to go. ))

So, Sheremetyevo was terrible. It was dirty, noisy, with peeling walls, loitering crooks, and other riffraff. I thought back then that if the capital's airport looked like that, we wouldn't have anything good to look forward to in air travel for a long time. But I was wrong. I was wrong because when I ended up at Domodedovo this time, I was shocked. It turned out that we also have modern airport terminals that meet world standards and, most importantly, where it is pleasant to spend a few hours between flights or while waiting for check-in.

Domodedovo was amazing. It was brand new, with smiling service staff, civilized luggage carts, and other pleasant little things. One huge minus of almost any world airport is the presence of armrests between seats in a single row, which do not allow you to lie down freely and take a nap. This problem exists in New York and Paris as well.