Good Airports, Shitty Airports
Muddy
USA
Monday, July 26, 2021 9:54 PM
Not just the facility but the experience overall too for you. I was recently at LaGuardia and that was usually considered on of the bad ones. Joe Biden said it was like flying into a third world country airport. Well they redid it in part because of that statement and I have to admit it’s top notch I think they did a great job. I think Atlanta and Dallas had nice airports too.
Airports that sucked. LAX, traffic insane and packed to the gills. And Nashville, great city but that airport is not big enough at all.
Airports that sucked. LAX, traffic insane and packed to the gills. And Nashville, great city but that airport is not big enough at all.
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I’ll go ahead and say a bad airport is Denver. I had like a half hour layover and it took forever to walk through the terminal to get to where I needed to go and I arrived just in time for boarding. And I was dead last as far as priority to get on the plane, but no problem because that was the section getting in there at that moment. What a sprawled out monstrosity.
Favorite? I'm holding out for an airport that provides a strip club!
It lost its #1 ranking this year for world’s busiest to an airport in China. (What a shock)
The food choices in Atlanta are pretty good. Better than any other airport I’ve seen.
Cincinnati used to be a decent airport when they were a Comair hub. Easy to get around a lots of convenient flights. But since Comair went under flights were substantially decreased and it kind of sucks now.
LaGuardia was a shithole but I haven't flown through in 3 years.
Newark has ungodly wait times, and takes forever to get from point A to point B. Oh, and everything inside is overpriced, and once I got horrible food poisoning.
Chicago O'Hare has shit amenities and is in need of a refresh.
I've always had good luck with Boston Logan. Fortunately that's where I fly out of these days.
Best: Brand new Salt Lake City International that opened in September 2020.
I like the secondary airports in Texas that Southwest goes to: Dallas Love and Houston Hobby. Those airports are easy to go in and out of because they do not have the crazy traffic of DFW or IAH. You have the opposite in Chicago. Midway is a mess compared to O'Hare. Honestly, I've been to so many airports in my life, they all blur together and are kind of the same.
Vegas airport sucks. Oakland is ok. Toronto has a nice one.
That being said..
I really HATE Sea-Tac. I dunno why but that airport stresses me out a lot every single time.
DFW and Dallas Love Field have always been easy for me. MSP was kind to me. PDX has been kind to me.
Other airports I just don't particularly remember. I think DC was stressful for me too but that was so many years ago.
One other airport I’ve enjoyed is Orlando as it’s large and comfortable.
Atlanta is ok - but it can be a challenge if you have a connection - as the gates/terminals can be a long distance apart.
My experience with other airports is too old to be pertinent.
Random, Houston Hobby really only services Southwest. Houston Bush is the big airport with all of the other airlines. Yeah, Houston is a LOT more humid than Denver. I have lived in both cities. Denver in the summer is great.
Worst airport I’ve ever been in is Kansas City. You enter the curb on the inside of a concave circle and it’s only one gate deep. No concourses. Very difficult to navigate, horrible if busy and limited food. It’s been a few years since I flew through there but it should be imploded so they can start over.
LAX is about the worst, except for the fancy new international terminal, which is among the best. Too bad it's 30 minutes on a bus to get there and back. Stuck overnight tried Jet City Strip (?), was pretty OK.
ATL is huge and busy, but efficient. Can be difficult to get a quick snack on a 30 minute layover (impossible at LAX). Stuck overnight uber'd up to Folleys!!!
Salt Lake is just slow. Nothing particularly special, except that every other US airport is so overcrowded it seems downright pleasant not being so. Though, getting stuck overnight would suck.
Memphis is similar, only redeeming quality is not being overcrowded, which makes it downright pleasant in comparison to most.
Dubai does the whole limit access to the gate area until 1 hour before departure... (similar to Kansas City) which limits seating in the terminal and overcrowds it. Horrible. Bangkok does this too, but the terminal is just so damned big.
And BKK, skytrain to Sukhumvit, a 4 hour layover might be cutting it too thin, but might be possible to squeeze in a successful trip to Soi Cowboy and make your flight.
Having always stopped in Bangkok (never just a layover), my favorite layover so far was in Munich, 14 hours, had to rent a car and drive 45 minutes one way to find an FKK club.
Seoul in Honk Kong also have pretty top notch beautiful airports with lot's of interesting shit, but it's still a fucking airport.
Frankfurt is, I think, a lot closer to a bunch of larger FKK clubs, but a freaking mess to change planes in, had to enter and exit EU immigrations to get from gate to gate on a 90 minute layover...
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