An excellent and quite modern airport. It is traditional for India to check tickets by the military at the entrance. Queues are gathering at the check-in counters, but you can use the self registration & badge printing machines. There are usually few people there and assistants are working.
We are faced with a 2-hour delay in the flight to Delhi. There are a lot of people in the waiting room in front of the gates, but the seats are quickly vacated. In general, the conditions are quite normal. There is a cafe and something like a business lounge with a queue at the entrance - a place quite popular with the locals, those of them who have access to flights around the country.
Comfortable, clean, spacious, cool, no fuss.
There is a cafe, a luggage packing machine, a currency exchange office (with a poor exchange rate), a mobile operator's office.
Upon arrival, Indians with badges grab a suitcase in the baggage claim area, ostensibly to help. If you don't want to pay money to carry a suitcase on wheels 50 meters to the exit, don't give them a suitcase. Otherwise, they will persistently demand money later, even agree to rubles, just not a trifle.
On departure. Check-in, baggage clearance, customs control, inspection and boarding took place smoothly, without long queues, without delays, although three flights were checked in simultaneously: to Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Alma-Ata. She asked for a seat on the plane near the aisle. And so they did.
The staff distributed passengers at the counters so that queues would not accumulate.
The flight took off on time without delay, which made me very happy, because I was afraid to be late for a transfer in Moscow to my house.
I didn't see a duty-free store. Either it was located somewhere in a place not on my route of passage, or I did not notice it. I wasn't really looking for him. And I didn't see any packages with duty-free purchases from other passengers.
When you get to this airport, you immediately realize that you are in the magical state of Goa! It is from this place that thousands of journeys and thousands of incredible stories begin and end!
The interiors are beautiful here, and it's nice to even wait a couple of hours for your flight. The staff is polite and always ready to help (in English, of course). Everything is logically arranged, you will not get confused and you will not get lost.
It's a good place!