re: Your Best and Worst Airports (Domestic + International)

Worst
Naples, Italy.
The most Third World airport I have been to outside of the Third World.


Best
Venice
Nothing great about the airport itself but it is pretty cool being taken to the airport by boat.

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Worst airport to navigate is Paris CDG

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Nice. I never hear anything good about it.

Haneda was great today. Plane touched down at 3:00pm

By 4:20pm, I had gone through immigration, taken train to Shinagawa, and boarded the Shinkasen even though I fricked up that last part and needed assistance.

I'm like 10 minutes from Kyoto already. Some places you may still be stuck at the airport

After this last weekend, I'm adding FLL to the worst list (at least the Delta terminal). Between 7 cruise ships, I'd estimate about 15,000 people disembarked with literally nowhere else to go showed up at FLL around 9am. Most of our flights weren't until the late afternoon and they wouldn't let us back until 3 hours before flight

It was like a refugee camp- people laying on the floor, both in baggage claim and the check in area, lines out the door, people fighting over the few pre-made sandwiches in the single Hudson news store. We ended up just hanging out at a nearby mall but good lord, for the amount of cruise traffic that place gets, the airport is shameful in its accommodations.

Once you get through security, there's a sushi bar and one restaurant selling shitty food. I counted 18 bar seats in total... The gates are a nightmare- giant room on each side and it feels like a DMV. Also, Delta made it impossible for anyone to get into the Sky Club which probably would've relived some of the crowd

Overall, just a terrible experience.

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I had an unexpected 9 hour layover heading to Hawaii at Houston George Bush and it was horrendous. Every bathroom I went in stunk like shite and had toilets out of commission and overflowing

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Thought this was a new thread, read my post thinking it was someone else and thought damn he must have been on my flight.

Don't really have any terrible experiences with domestic airports but I always enjoy connecting through Atlanta even though so many people hate ATL

for International Doha is awesome. It doesn't even feel like an airport

I connect through Toronto almost once a month and seriously hate it. I started switching to connecting through Montreal and it is such a better experience

Paris is also a bitch to connect through from the few times I went through. The layout makes zero sense and the line for the bus to switch terminals took forever

not simply "worst" but airports I'll go out of my way to book around?

Orlando
Toronto Pearson
London Heathrow,
Chicago-O'Hare
Phoenix Sky Harbor
Philadelphia
Paris CDG
Newark

some of the more pleasant airports?

Anchorage
Albuquerque
Portland OR
Edmonton
Minneapolis
NYC LaGuardia
DC airports (BWI, IAD, DCA)
Tel Aviv Ben Gurion

Domestic
Best -- Atlanta. Super easy to get around and efficient.
Worst -- Dulles. Place is awful.

International
Best -- nothing overwhelming amazing comes to mind, but Emirates business lounges in DXB were amazing.
Worst -- EZE in Buenos Aires had me stressed out that I would miss my flight as only two attendants checking 2 777 worth of luggage for American. Luckily some more showed up an hour before, but was in line at least 2 hours...would have been screwed, except got there pretty early.