OT: For the road-warriors
Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
San Diego International Airport is the best U.S. airport, according to a new report by The Points Guy.
The travel website examined 34 key factors including amenities, flight delays, cancellations and ride-hailing prices of the 50 busiest U.S. airports, to determine the list for 2019.
San Diego has high scores for amenities (No. 11), flight timeliness (No. 16) and the top overall rating for commute time, as San Diego’s airport is located less than four miles away from the city’s downtown area.
Coming second is Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, which has been known as a traveler favorite for years, according to The Points Guy — it topped the site’s list in 2017 and 2018. However, the airport slips to No. 2 this year, due to a lower ranking for arrivals and departures times.
As for the worst, Orlando’s International airport comes in next to last, due to its long commute times (No. 46) and poor amenities (No. 42). Orlando’s airport is more than 20 miles away from Walt Disney World.
With only one lounge and few restaurants, Chicago’s Midway International Airport comes in last, ranking in the bottom five for amenities (No. 46) and long wait times (No. 46).
Here are the five best and worst airports, according to The Points Guy.
Five best U.S. airports
1. San Diego International Airport
2. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
3. Portland (Oregon) International Airport
4. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
5. Sacramento International Airport
Five Worst U.S. Airports
46. Southwest Florida International Airport
47. Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
48. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
49. Orlando International Airport
50. Chicago Midway International Airport
Scott Mayerowitz, executive editor at The Point Guy, tells CNBC Make It, “Many among the top 25 domestic airports are either overseeing construction projects or are bringing in new concessions designed to keep travelers spending money in terminals for as long as possible. That’s great news for travelers,” he says.
Some of those new amenities include airport yoga rooms, more nursing stations and private spots for travelers to unwind.
However, some airports are slower with change and updates, according to Mayerowitz.
The full list of the 50 airport rankings is at the bottom of this webpage:
https://thepointsguy.com/news/tpg-best-a…
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I usually drive when I’m road clubbing though.
I flew into that airport twice. The first time was during the day. On the side of the runway was the wreckage of another aircraft that a couple of days earlier had run off the runway and into the harbor. The second time was at night in a heavy rainstorm. The pilot missed the approach twice and had to go around. On the third attempt the pilot landed so hard the flight attendants screamed when we slammed down on the runway.
LAX is a slightly better version of LGA, but still pretty bad too.
Orlando has decent amenities, but it takes a fuck long time to get through the place. JFK suffers from these same problem on the departure side. For me, ease of getting in and out of an airport is as important as the amenities and I hate flying out of both airports because I have to build in a big cushion to get through security and to the terminal.
Airports I love are certain smaller market ones like JAX, CLT MKE and MCI. Each has decent amenities and is not tough to get in and out of.
Most of the rest that I travel, like DFW, LAS, MIA, DCA, BOS and a few others are more middle of the road, each with pros or cons but nothing that makes me love or hate them.
For connecting airports, I hate ATL, which is why I am not a FF on Delta. If you have a tight connection window and your connecting flight is in another terminal, then you're toast. I also avoid O'Hare at all costs from December through April.
Yep, I recall CRG, and Gold Club. If I recall, PDK isn't that far from Follies. There may still be a club practically off the approach end of SAN runway.
Good summary from rick wrt passenger POV.
Also towards the bottom is Newark, NJ. Its crowded, dirty, and everyone working there seems like they’d rather be getting dry fucked in the ass.
I know Orlando gets a bad rap, but it seems pretty nice to me. The security lines can be long.
I’ve flown into Jacksonville and Tampa recently, and they were nice - as they were smaller and less rushed.
It had very good food, but it was very expensive for that time (~1982) and dinner for two with a bottle of wine was about $45. They actually had a feed from the tower at Craig playing all the time.
Surprised that Atlanta Hartsfield is ranked so high. It's fine but not amazing. Detroit is surprisingly nice. So many other airports just so-so.
Best small market airport: Palm Springs.
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Miami
Houston
LAX
Heathrow (especially if you land from US and need to connect within the UK)
Houston
I know I said Houston twice. That's because it's twice as sucky as the rest.
Couple of years ago flew into Philadelphia (PHL) - felt kinda dumpy ftom what I recall.
From what I recall it was a cinch to get in and out, not a lot of foot traffic and it was fast getting thru security (I flew in and out on a weekday in mid September)
As I mentioned I don't travel much - but many airports I've been to, it's one continuous terminal that everyone drives into - DFW has about 5 different terminals that are physically separate from each other by a good-distance - e.g. only those flying out of terminal-A drive into that terminal instead of everyone driving into the same area.
The airport has a main-road/drag that is about 3 lanes in each direction and then there are off-ramps onto each individual terminal (kinda like a freeway within the airport grounds).