re: Best and Worst Airports in US

Dallas and Hou are so much alike. Both have abysmal large airports with horrible terminal to terminal connections and almost identical, very underrated smaller airports that are a breeze. From touchdown to freeway at Hobby is 20 mins and a short walk. Touchdown to freeway at IAH is never less than 45 mins, often involves a tram or a mile walk and ends with a 15-20 min delay getting out of the terminal garage or an even longer delay getting a bus to non-terminal parking, and then only to sit in airport property construction traffic.

God bless you if you checked a bag or need to take JFK to the tollway instead of Will Clayton to 59. And leaving DFW is even worse.

Flying to/from the Big Island of Hawaii was pretty smooth. Admittedly it lacked a lot of the amenities that are commonplace elsewhere, but as far as the logistics of disembarking / getting into a rental, it was great.

There’s also a small airport down close to San Diego that was always smooth when I was living out there. I lived closer to LAX, but I could go down there and grab a flight way faster than dealing with the pandemonium of LAX.