You can't tell a book by it's cover, but I'm not sure whether or not there's a corollary about countries and their gateway airports, but here's my first impression of Egypt. Cairo International Airport (CAI) not only serves Egypt's capital and largest city but is also at the crossroads where the influences of the Gulf States, Africa and Europe meet. Terminal 1 has recently been renovated, Terminal 2 redevelopment has "been initiated" and a new Terminal 3 is "under construction and scheduled to open soon."
If you arrive without a visa, as many/most foreign tourists do, don't go straight to passport control. Go to the bank, where $15 will buy you a Monopoly money-size visa that will be pasted into your passport and decorated with an impressive official stamp. Also, don't expect anyone to take the entry or customs declaration forms that you filled out.
My initial impression therefore is of a bureaucratic country with systems that are not necessarily intuitive or logical to the outsider.
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