What's the worst airport you've ever been to? Making this thread so I can know what shitholes to avoid. Anyways, for me it's Glasgow.
>2 hour long immigration line as it was staffed by literally just two people
>no free WiFi (have to pay)
>no water fountains
I'm surprised they didn't charge me to use the bathrooms. This was like 7 years ago to be fair but after that experience I refused to ever go back.
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Panama. I think I've flown in/out of there at least 10 times. Its never had working air conditioning and the terminals are like a mile apart.
Runner up is YYZ just because they gave jeets jobs and you can immediately tell that power went right to their little brown heads just because they can boss around white people now. Frick Toronto.
What I dislike about canadian airports are that customs agents are straight up rude to you and the police will single out people to harass and check your bag thinking youre illegally transiting money. The airport itself is clean, spacious and not atrociously overpriced (relatively, remember that this is still Canada so every thing is already overpriced).
The average canadian aairport is a 6/10. Passable.
The country however is a 3/10. Boring, cold, unfriendly, expensive, shit weather, etc. Would never go back.
The customs agents are exactly who I had in mind when I posted that. Why the frick am I getting treated like a felon when all I wanted to do was see Niagara Falls? Like calm the frick down Ranjeesh I promise you I don't want to live here like your brothers and sisters.
It's all the customs agents in Canada. White, brown or yellow. No idea why they are such fricking buttholes. Even the American ones seem friendlier.
I travelled to Canada via Toronto and they wouldn't even let me in. Accused me of trying to immigrate illegaly (I had plane tickets, place to stay, money, luggage, etc.) Gave me ptsd. What a joke of a country
>The airport itself is clean, spacious and not atrociously overpriced (relatively, remember that this is still Canada so every thing is already overpriced).
Thats weird because the cramped design was one of my biggest complaints. Like everything else in southern onterrible, its like the architects responsible for designing the damn thing figure out what the acceptable standard for people/square metre would be anywhere else on earth, then divide by two
It was like they put in seats for maybe 40% of the people expected to be in the terminal when 80% would be the normal target.
The barstool design to the tables is moronic when most people in the building are going to be carrying at least one piece of large, heavy luggage, and the ipads bolted onto the table are like some sort of relic from 2009. Literally everyone there has a fricking screen in their pocket anyways
The food wasnt insanely expensive, but a hamburger was still 20$ on its own, and the selection of food was crap.
I made a personal goal after that of making a point to never fly either of air canada or through pearson ever again
Toronti Airport is probably one of the worst in the world. Their COVID bullshit was extremely laughable. Some masked homosexual directing people where to go, when they asked him a question he flat out just said "MOVE!". It was Canada in a nutshell. I showed up 4 hours early for my flight and almost missed it.
I think what throws people off about Canada is they have a reputation(or they did at least) as being a friendly country/people, and it looks from the outside to be very well run and clean. So it’s quite the shock when you run into their airports, and realize they are one of the most brutal countries to actually gain access to.
Its one of the easiest countries to get into on earth, so long as you arent a straight white male
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>linkrel
Using intersectional politics as a yardstick to determine desirability in the immigration process has been official canadian government policy for 30 years now.
Gba+ is a legally binding guideline to how every aspect of the canadian government runs.
>What I dislike about canadian airports are that customs agents are straight up rude
i found the american ones more rude (new york and miami)
Same experience crossing the border in Saskatchewan. For some reason they had a bug up their ass about me bringing guns over the border and just would not let it go. I was starting to worry they were going to plant shit on me.
>”Sir, do you have any guns in the car today?”
>“No”
>“Are you sure?”
>”Yes”
>“Okay, just so you know if you bring any illegal firearms into Canada it’s x amount of years in prison and y dollar fine. Now, you’re sure you don’t have any guns in the vehicle”
>“YES”
>“Once you come through there’s nothing I can do to help you. You’re sure there’s no guns in the car?”
After that they let me through and nothing happened, but I would have bet my soul I was getting my car disassembled at inspection.
I have had nothing but problems transitioning through Frankfurt -- it may be fine as a destination, I don't know. But avoid it if you can.
Dishonorable mention to Kuwait, which doubles as a shopping mall in the pre-security area, so often has unnecessary traffic jams. It is also over-crowded and I've run into surly security and customs staff several times.
>What I dislike about canadian airports are that customs agents are straight up rude to you
This has been my experience too.
Came here to say this. Poos thrive off of bossing around whites.
Toronto. Always extremely slow with transferring luggage. Rude, poorly trained staff that go on power trips like mentioned.
>Toronto
>Indians
I mean, I don't doubt they have them, but last time I was there (2022), the staff was mostly Chinese. I wonder if they have separate shifts for Chinese and Indians.
Now let me throw in another Fresh observation:
>Vancouver (YVR)
>white staff are Frenchies who speak English with an accent
>Toronto (YYZ)
>white staff are anglos who speak French with an accent
Fricking crackas be working at the wrong airport. Bring those fricking anglos to Vancouver, and send the froggies back east.
So true about Panama. It’s just hot as hell and dirty. Only plus is you don’t have to do customs there before getting on next flight
I've only been to a few US airports:
LAX
SMF (Sacramento)
ONT (Ontario California)
SYR (Syracuse)
BWI (DC/Baltimore)
Chicago O'Hare
And, lastly, the worst of the shit heap: Denver International Airport. Massive, crowded, in the middle of the endless brown plains of bumfrick nowhere 40 miles from the city, traffic out the ass, expensive flights despite being a regional hub, dirty, overall nightmarish experience. I don't particularly like any of the other airports I've mentioned but I'd take every last one of them before Denver.
If you think O'Hara is bad stop in at Midway. It's like a post apocalyptic bus station.
Syracuse mentioned!!
Possibly the easiest airport in the country. Small enough where you're not getting hordes on mongrels, big enough where there's decent flight options.
Denver?
I went through the other day and it was great. Easy to go through, not that busy, loads of space to mill around etc.
No qualms.
I lived in Denver for 5 years and fricking hated that airport. Takes 60 minutes to get in and out to/from Denver plus a 45 minute security line. Even TSA pre takes a half hour
I fly out of there all the time and this is bullshit, even when the security line looks long its never more than 15 minutes. The lizard people build a good airport
yeah Denver is a weird choice, it's a high end airport but it's a little too big I guess? It's not regional it was built with the intention of Denver being a megacity or something that never planned out but still used as a hub in the same level as LA
>SLC
Why? Because I am so fricking mad at how went from the best, easiest airport ever to a poorly designed pain in the ass after they started modernizing
The new airport is laid out like an H. It's way better than the old airport except for regional flights. What don't you like?
Going to and from B terminal. It takes longer to get to the gate from the parking lot
ok? take the green line
>Why?
Did anyone ask?
>small airport
Grenoble. Well outside the city, tiny little thing with few services, very old looking/run down.
>medium-sized
Either Nantes (a lot of the same problems as Grenoble despite being busier) or Fukuoka (purely because immigration was a complete nightmare on arrival, departure was actually pretty good).
>large airport
Schiphol (just because of the fricking queues back last April/May), Gatwick (grimy) or Birmingham (in Birmingham).
Shoutouts go to the unremarkable airports - Barcelona, Manchester, Haneda and Faro.
>Schiphol
Last time I flew through there, I had a 1.5 hour layover and the staff had a special lane for us fast connections since the queue was so long for the normies
Schipol is one of the best most efficient airports
>Faro
Very shitty airport to wait for a delayed flight.
The whole airport seems to have only one toilet area between security and boarding.
Haneda is an excellent city airport. Plebs fly through NRT and spend 1.5 hrs on the bug train. Chads arrive in HND and are in Shibuya cooming inside the mouth of a 40 year old single mom at the pink salon within 30 minutes.
You described my life as a 26 year old gaijin from 8 years ago in vivid detail. Thank you for bringing back the fun memories. But yeah Haneda is possibly one of my favorite airports ever.
Not sure how you had a bad time at Haneda. Less weeb trash. Friendlier customs agents (esp if you’re a dark skinned Indian). I always got hiccups entering through NRT. Also another anon mentioned it but it is relatively closer to tokyo so for mainstream tourists it might be a bit more convenient. And yes the red light district prostitutes gave the best BJs of my life. And they’re hot. Plus the weak yen means my shitty USD can still be superior. Can’t get any better than that mate
Paris CDG
Not that I have travelled a lot, but so far I havent ever seen an airport with so many homeless in the public area. Trash everywhere, homeless laying on the benches.
And I dislike Paris too, never again will I go to such a shithole. Rest of France might be nice though.
EWR
It is a shithole!
The best ones are asians one because they have less corrupt staff that plants drugs in your suitcase.
Sud-american ones are the worst as they plant drugs frequently, and american/european ones plant drugs too but not that frequently.
Norsup Airport, Malekula, Vanuatu
Glasgow Airport had that baggage handler who kicked a burning Islamist terrorist in the wiener, so GLA is automatically supremely based
Worst I’ve been in is probably Gatwick. It just needs a refurb. YYC was a bit crap too
Favourite is Barra’s tidal airstrip (picrel)
Manchester - Terminal 1 is just shit: cramped, not enough seating, outdated, all flights arrive at the same time so you always have massive queues at immigration, also massive queues at security. Terminal 3 isn't great either. Terminal 2 is good though
I went through Manchester a few months ago. It's like a third world dysfunctional hellhole that somehow found its way into Europe.
O'Hare International arrivals was running construction with wires hanging down and plastic sheets, it looked like a zombie outbreak quarantine zone. Then you exit trying to find the one elevator that takes you up to the skyrail (blocked by the loudest fattest darkies you've ever met) and then stuffed into the train.
Came here for this. T2 Departures is okay, T2 Arrivals is like a concentration camp. All of T3 is shit because it's Ryanair-land.
also came here to post Manchester. they drag you into some fricking basement 3 miles from the gates for the most moronic, shitfest of a security lane and all the staff are barely fricking verbal barbary apes. never again.
one time i was in bangalore and went to the airport to get my flight back
the airport was crowded and there were soldiers outside stopping people from going into the terminal building
one of them stopped me and waved a shotgun in my face and screamed at me for ages
i had to wait outside sweating for ages
also i wanted a shit and even when i got into the building the toilets were all broken so i had a bit of a touching cloth moment until i got through security
Toronto (YYZ) is so bad that I'm actually having trouble remembering other bad airports I've been to. And I've been to south Asia, for crying out loud.
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CDG by far. It's so ridiculously bad, I don't even notice the mess of other airports anymore.
It has to be Istanbul Sabiha. Avery narrow airport, too small for all the flights it takes, with no free wifi. Hell
>It has to be Istanbul Sabiha. Avery narrow airport, too small for all the flights it takes, with no free wifi. Hell
Don’t know how recently you were in SAW, but I was just there a few weeks ago; I think they have free WiFi now, at least theoretically, but there was a glitchy login process (using some code supposedly found on boarding passes?) that I didn’t actually succeed in getting to work.
I didn’t exactly hate it as an airport, for the most part (although the extra security screening just to get into the building was one more long, slow line than I would have preferred), but I give it extra shit points for having the most hilariously overpriced airside food and drink options I have ever seen at any airport literally anywhere. Pic related (not sure how clear it is, but that is a 750 mL bottle of mineral water on sale for an incomprehensible THIRTEEN EURO; I also had the choice of a cup of Turkish coffee for roughly €8, which must be ten times the street-corner price). It’s also annoyingly far from the city center—takes at least an hour in a cab, could be twice that or more with traffic.
But the single-worst airport I have personally experienced was Tribhuvan Intl, Kathmandu. Absurdly invasive security—I was frisked very enthusiastically just before getting on a shuttle bus to my plane, and then again, not much more than one minute later, at the bottom of the jetway; this was after at least two more ordinary scans and x-rays. Plus basically nothing works. Feels mean-spirited to complain in such a poor country, but the airport experiences electrical blackouts all the time that kill the whole place. No functioning airside ATMs. No climate control or fans. Nearly all of the food and drink vendors out of action. I assume essential functions like security and air traffic control must have generators or massive inverters, but it doesn’t make it any nicer to sit in the dark.
Mate, next time you're at Sabiha just pay the 20 euro access to the lounge, especially if you have a long layover.
I’ll bear it in mind, for sure, particularly if it’s that cheap. But I’ve never had a layover there; I’ve only used it when specifically heading into or out of Istanbul on cheap tickets. And there as everywhere I prefer to spend as little time in the airport as possible. I mostly just thought the inflated prices were hilarious when compared to vanishingly low street prices, while filling a water bottle from a tap.
Being small is good since I hate walking for kilometers to go my fricking gate (Yes, I'm talking about you spain). But they definetly need more toilets.
Seems like my closest airport, Luton, that I regularly use for cheap shit flights to Europe, has you beat. It has free wifi but it's only functional about 25% of the time
Worst:
CDG (Paris) and LAX
Both can be summed up with a dysfunctional outdated steaming piece of shit and incompetence
Also really shitty:
GRU (Sao Paulo, everything not handled by the new build interconti terminal) Run down, nobody speaks english at a fricking airport
LIS (Lisbon) who ever designed that rotten piece of shit and thought it's smart to remodel it for over 5 years turning everything into a even bigger mess shout be shot
FRA (Frankfurt) Every single time it's a new maze of kilometer long corridors and they keep on adding more confusing shit to it.
Just what is this even?
BSL (Basel) Is this even a airport? I mean I can get on a plane there but holy frick what about some shops or at least a bar or more than 4 chairs air side would be a good addition
PNH (Phnom Penh) Yeah oh well what ever, welcome to the 1980s
HAV (Havana) And that's a welcome to the 60s
>BSL (Basel) Is this even an airport? I mean I can get on a plane there but holy frick what about some shops or at least a bar or more than 4 chairs air side would be a good addition
LOL. BSL is my local airport, and while your description is pretty accurate, I actually love how tiny it is. Security takes thirty seconds, and passport control is fast for flights out of Schengen. You can show up really late and not have to worry about missing your flight.
But it is basically just a series of glass holding pens for EasyJet cheapskates rather than a recognizable full-service international airport, regardless of the fact that it’s the international terminal serving three small cities across three countries.
The lounge is cute, though, and I think you can buy your way in for CHF40, which is the cost of about two drinks in Switzerland.
Sally oder grüezi
Griezi wohl!
Nothing you said was inaccurate or offensive—it’s an absurdly rustic little airport, now overcrowded, despite being very well connected.
And you’re especially right that there aren’t enough airside seats—at busy times, even if check-in and security took mere moments compared to other airports, it’s a sea of low-budget family travelers standing around and getting in one another’s way. I choose to blame the French.
I use BSL for my international point of departure as often as I can, because it’s less than fifteen minutes from my house, but we often just give in and head out of ZRH, which is nearly as fast to get through (at least as far as security is concerned; having to take that silly little Heidi train between terminals probably adds half an hour to total travel time) but undeniably slicker and better equipped.
It's just my observation. I'm from Zurich and working in Basel so from time to time flying out from BSL and I thought with Easyjet turning it into a hub, a couple of interconti connections and so many super cheap connections to large hubs (FRA, MUC, LHR, AMS, CDG) they would finally upgrade the airport a bit and maybe attract other airlines to use it as a side hub as the location is 9.5/10.
You're right it's small fast to get trough and functional airport but it's almost as good connected as BER yet feels like a small regional airport for puddle jumpers still snoozing away.
>Small sized:
La rochelle, closes like at 20:30 with no chance to stay inside
>Medium sized:
Marseille Provence, shit is actually like 30 km from Marseille and requires having a car rental (always expensive as frick in Europe) or to go by ferry bus that departs every hour or so, never on time and takes 1 hour to arrive to the city centre. The train connection is like 3 km from the terminal and requires to take a bus that goes every hour or so, and last train is like at 17 hrs
>Larger Airport
Either barajas due to the absurdly complex terminal system, or Paris Beauvais that its actually closer to Ruan/Amiens than to Paris. Bus is like 1:30 h and there is no train connection. Honestly it should remove the Paris name alltogether if the connection its so bad/far away
Houston Hobby though it's probably not the world's worst, it has been the worst for me. Never fly routes that have a layover there. I was stuck there when severe weather (which happens all the time in Texas) delayed my connection. It was 90% nonwhite, there was nowhere quiet to sit (on count of the above), no wifi, and the only food choices were garbage tier fast food the only exception being Subway which had an hour long line. As an aside, don't ever fly from a southern city to Vegas. Plane was full of fat black women all of whom would scream and one of whom would faint when we hit turbulence. Because of this the airline called a waaambulance to check her out when we landed which delayed us even further. I should have flown on Frontier which would have been a worse airline but it would have routed me through Denver and I could have avoided this nonsense.
By the metric of what was available, CDB (Cold Bay) was the worst airport I have been to. It has no services and was just a room with some chairs in it.
By the metric of having repeated bad experiences, its SEA (Seatac), bags are consistently late, airport security is awfully slow, and Alaska Airlines loves to change gates for my flights, causing me to run all over the airport.
The most comfy airport I have been to is DUT (Unalaska). It has alright restaurant, its right on the ocean, and it reminds me of airports before 9/11.
I fly through SEA several times per year for work and even the TSA pre line takes 30-45 minutes. They have a great lounge though
Toronto Pearson has to be one of the worst.
>not enough gates for all the traffic so your plane sits on the tarmac when it arrives for 20 minutes until a gate is available
>walk into the concourse and you're bombarded by gay advertising, literally gay flags and gay stuff everywhere - even for bank ads
>EVERYONE is indian, from the gate agent to the person asking you where you went on vacation and if you have anything illegal, like wtf I'm more canadian than you Parmajot
>two terminals numbered...1 and...3?
>Drive away and almost die immediately as everyone plowing the highway at 130kph to go about their hellish life
>>two terminals numbered...1 and...3?
the indians left number 2 out on the street
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IAD
It's so fricking bad. It should be a crown israeliteel airport considering it's part of DC, but it's awful and built like a tomb. I hate it.
Last time I flew through was a couple years ago and it looked like shit with all the renovation work in progress.
huh, really? it feels pretty slick with the train system and extensive shopping
Haven’t traveled a lot but LAX, DEN, Dallas, and EWR are shit
LGA was surprisingly nice. I’ve only been there post remodel though.
I actually like SFO.
LAX and EWR is the worst out of the lot.
Full of immigrant employees who don’t want to be there and don’t understand western society
I second LAX. It is a shithole. A concrete brutalist pile of restricted prisonlike blocks that has not been updated since the 1960s staffed by people more interested in picking their nose and being fat than actually transferring luggage properly. Avoid at all costs.
I wonder how many people have an accurate view on which airports are really the worst. In that, there’s what, thousands of airports? How many of them have any one person even been to to compare. I’ve been on hundreds of flights, a dozen countries. Dozens of states. But still my favorite airport is probably pdx, least is Heathrow(just because while it’s relatively nice it’s a shitshow so often). But I can tell just from this thread there’s way worse I haven’t been to. How many people on earth have been to enough airports to accurately rate them? And name let’s say the top 5 worst?
You can infer a lot through transitive properties.
If multiple people say that CDG is worse than AMS and some others that FRA is slightly better than AMS; then you can be pretty sure that FRA is better than CDG even without a direct comparison.
Same as the best airports, it's pretty much always the same and for good reasons that get mentioned + a few very regional that come up
Frankfurt, it is a maze.
Among US medium-big cities the worst I’ve been to are
>Ohare
>Denver
>Orlando
>Atlanta
>LAX
>Kansas City
>Vegas
Favorites
>Portland OR
>Long Beach
>Phoenix
>Salt Lake City
Frick you buddy, Orlando is great
Orlando has awful security and it’s like a crowded, humid shopping mall. No thanks.
The TSA Pre-check lines in Orlando are longer than the regular lines. Get the frick outta here.
For Burgers and Holiday Makers alike, do yourself a favor, avoid MCO and go to either SFB or MLB instead. MLB is the best of the three, but it is the furthest.
For Brits, that would mean booking on TUI. (Not certain if TUI does UK stopovers for holidays in Florida for other Europeans).
Americans will need to book American, Delta, Sun Country, Allegiant or Avelo.
SFB has services from Allegiant and Flair for Canucks looking to visit.
I second that Kansas City has a shitty little airport. It was designed by a moron.
The old one or the new one? The old circular terminals were built when you didn't go through any security to get to your plane. It was obsolete shortly after it opened. They have a new terminal that opened in the last few years to replace the old ones.
Charlotte is pretty shitty.
just had the misfortune of stopping here on a leg back from Tokyo. everyone was so rude compared to Japan
Assuming you mean major airports (i.e. not 3rd world shithole airports with a dirt runway and no AC/shops) it's gotta be CDG. Just a miserable, horrible place. I've paid hundreds of dollars extra to avoid it. It's also made me really hate the fricking French after dealing with the c**t employees at that place
You're not alone. I would have saved thousands of dollars if I had flown via CDG the past decade. But I just don't hate myself enough to go via CDG again. I don't remember what was the last drop, it was all sorts of bad every time I had to go there.
By the time I got to DTW I kind of gave up actually liking airports. But I actually enjoyed DTW?! Everything just worked, people did their jobs, the building is functional, etc.
Hah. CDG is a mess, all right.
A few years ago that was our first connection into Europe, and we had to catch a second flight into Rome. The terminal was ridiculously crowded, no one knew how to line up for anything (not that there was any room to form a line), and the employees didn't give a good goddamn whether they ever got you on your flight.
Top 3 shittiest (no particular order)
1. Old MCI
Sure, it might have been fast to get through, but it looked like shit, you couldn't eat there, and it's so needlessly far from town
2. YYZ
Flying international out of YYZ is one of the most stressful experiences a human can undergo. Not only are the customs guys douchebags, but the lines and everything are batshit. I got here 3 hours before my flight and only barely made it onboard.
3. DIA
Leaving out of this place isn't even that bad. It's arriving here. You want your bags? That'll be two hours; frick you.
YYZ. i am a canadian citizen and during covid i was travelling nonstop wherever had lax restrictions (because im not moronic and it was actually the golden era of travel since everything was empty) and i was treated like a TERRORIST. every single time customs would give me so much shit, scold me for doing "non-essential travel" (despite the fact that it was legal) and question my "extensive travel history during covid". sometimes they even had police officers on stand by who would try to "scare" me extra much after the customs officer got done lecturing me. it was all a really disgusting way to treat YOUR OWN CITIZEN. now imagine being a foriegner
Hate O’Hare and DIA cuz it takes an hour or more after the plane touches down for you to be out of the airport. PDX you’re gone 20 minutes after wheels touch down, great airport
Tolerable:
ATL, as long as you have a decent layover and are with Delta it's fine
TUL
IAH hot and old but gets the job done
SDU
BOG
Pleasant Surprises:
XNA (NW Arkansas) small regional that is far better than you'd think
CNF a surprisingly modern airport Azul is making into a new hub
BAD:
GRU
GIG the most agressive Taxi drivers ever
CGH
SGN tiny airport considering its Vietnams biggest Port of Entry, expect to wait in customs over 1hr
BKK
LAX
Avoid at All costs:
Qatar
OHare
PTY
ICN
Also forgot. FRICK Hanoi
Probably Denpasar airport only because you have to run an actual gauntlet of taxi drivers
all you toronto cucks kvetching about pearson, fly through billy bishop, its so comfy
billy bishop is alot comfier but the intl options are basically boston/nyc/wash plus theres no preclearance so ur rolling the dice with any layovers. when they add preclearance it will be better, and aircanada is going to start stealing market share there from porter, meaning they can start selling connections through NYC, and then itll be alot better of an airport, but thats years down the line
It's comfy until you are cutting it close and you have to wait for a fricking ferry. I once used Google flights to book and didn't realize my flight was out of Billy Bishop. YTZ and YYZ are confusingly close, at least in Chicago and New York there's no confusion between airport codes.
>until you are cutting it close and you have to wait for a fricking ferry.
when i went there was an underground walkway with those motorized walkways that are 50% under repair like in many airport terminals
the ferry still runs, i guess if someone had excess luggage or wasn't able bodied they might still need it but unless someone is doing it for fun, i think everyone walks
Worst: LAX. Runner up Toronto, the fricking monkeys on the ramp marshalled the plane into the wrong spot and took 40 minutes to grab a tug to reposition the plane.
Best: DTW, never had a problem there
OR Tambo is a massive pain in the dick. None of the elevators or escalators work ever.
LAX. It literally dumps you out onto the gutter lol. Fitting for an absolute gutter of a city
Some i remember from past trips
>RIX (Riga)
The interior is somewhat decent, not a lot to do, but my god, the security line is absurdly slow (It was 20 minutes, there were about 15 persons in front of me), the airport feels really old (At least 70/80's) and it generally sucks, normally i'd pass it as just a mid airport due to being ex-soviet but Tallin airport, not being a main hub for an airline and also ex-soviet, is at least ten times better
>Venice
Small airport, public transport sucks (Although the public boat ride is decent, i consider it to be incredibly overpriced), nothing to do or eat in it, the layout is one of the worst i've ever seen (It has like three floors with gates)
>Malpensa airport
First airport that i've seen hobos roaming the public area trying to scam people and being violent, police does nothing
>Meh airports
>Luxembourg airport
Small, not enough restaurants (At least in the european terminal, idk if there's more in the other terminal) but otherwise decent
>CDG
As long as you don't go to the main terminal (The AF once) and go very early (~5/6 am), it's not that bad, the AF terminal is overcrowded and it sucks and i regret going there even as a layover (KLM cucked us due to a flight route being cancelled, had to go with AF)
>Malta
The public area is good, the terminal is basically a duty-free shop with 4 gates, a single delayed flight basically cripples the entire airport for the day
>Actually good airports
>Helsinki
I once saw a Malasyan fighting with an Estonian in birdapp and he said "The baltics are the most irrelevant place in the world and would be inhabitated by actual savages have the soviet union not trascended them into sapience", and the Helsinki airport is proof of that, best airport, no contest
>Oporto
Nice regional airport, food is somewhat overpriced but not so much
>Madrid
Quite fast to move between terminals, i was able to catch a flight in another terminal that was closing doors fifteen minutes after going through security
>Helsinki
>Estonia
>transcended by soviet union
What.
Yeah, also a little confused by this. Is your point that Helsinki is a good airport, in contrast to nearby ex-Soviet airports in the Baltics, like in Estonia, which are worse?
Most of what is now Finland was never really Soviet. The USSR made an honest effort to envelop in the Finns in their entirety, occasionally against great resistance, but the CCCP settled for just keeping the best-integrated, historically Russian-Empire-owned chunks of Karelia (which they’d already absorbed by the 18th century), in the end.
>The Republic of Karelia, now a constituent of the Russian Federation, formerly known as the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (KASSR), is actually a pretty nice place, especially by Russian standards, but it hasn’t been majority-Finnish for centuries at this point.
>And it’s like nine hours from Helsinki.
Anyway, it’s been an extremely long time since I flew through Helsinki, but my experiences there were also positive.
No, i was making a comparison of Helsinki being one of the best airports i've ever flown to compared to nearby countries (Thus calling other baltic countries "Savages" compared to then purely by the airport quality), i was qasted when typing it so i probably mispoke hard lol
Manchester. I hate it.
Sydney is my second most hated.
Can't speak to this personally but, I've heard from multiple people recently that Denver is an absolute shit show right now. Something about insane security lines in some cases being +5 hours at times.
One of my nicest airport experiences was Helskini and Seoul during covid. So empty and relaxing, it was a really strange time.
SFO really sucked. I had a codeshare flight from Malaysia Air and by the time I reached the baggage claim there were asain people crawling into the baggage claim to go retrieve their luggage
>all this shit-talking of YYZ
Makes me feel less moronic for having worked at YUL.
YUL is still ass though
Worked at YQR and seeing everyone shitting on YYZ is great.
MEXICO CITY BY FAR
Benito Juarez is a complete mess. If you have a transfer there you HAVE to tell the police or you can easily be trapped there for hours. Even working at full capacity they only have like 5 immigration tills, it's ridiculous. Every single time I've been there I've been at risk of missing my flight. The WiFi never works.
Second place LAX, no explanation needed
Third: Shanghai. A haunted mansion with 1% occupancy. Getting super censored WiFi is an adventure on itself
Bonus track: I've been in Changi over 5 times and I still don't get the hype about it. Completely average for me
Best big airport: Kansai
Best small airport: Nelson, NZ. Kawaiisugiru
>Discarding any airports I've only been once, could have been unlucky
lmao, I would imagine more people would've mentioned Benito Juárez, it's so shitty
I second this anon. Mexico City Benito Juarez is a shithole mess. It's old as shit and has super low ceilings, very crowded, dirty and has two separate terminals opposite the airport from each other with no train or underground walkway connecting them. You literally have to pay $2 to board a bus, wait several minutes till the driver feels like taking off, then make your way through crazy mexico city traffic to the other terminal. Fricking bulldoze it and start over.
Second place is probably Heathrow. I don't know what possessed the Bongistanis to expand the airport massively over the last several decades by adding new bigger terminals but not add any runways. Just TWO runways for one of the busiest airports in the world. You're 100% guaranteed to spend at least an hour either waiting on the tarmac to take off or waiting for an open gate after you land. Plan your layover accordingly. It's also crowded as frick everywhere.
London Heathrow by far
>All the staff are obese pajeets and mudslimes and they're unfriendly too
>Forced to take a bus to the other side of the airport which took forever to arrive
>Bag checking area staffed by one person who was incredibly slow. Like so slow he was clearly making an effort to be slow
>Total chaos
Actually avoid that airport now
Heathrow is in my top 3 worst airports.
Immigration is always backed up by literally THOUSANDS of migrants who's visas can't be quickly or sensibly cleared, everyone denied entry claims asylum just to avoid being put on a return ticket.
Staff are incredibly rude, insulting, threatening, as if they're trained and instructed to push people's buttons as some kind of shit test. Yes they're all migrants themselves.
Lacks even basic amenities, arrivals is total chaos, there's two fricking levels and so terminal changes are a nightmare.
I'd fly into Heathrow if I had to, but would basically refuse to transit or fly out of there
Are you from a third world country? UK/EU/US and a few others can use the automated passport control gates at LHR.
>have OWE status
>fly out of LHR T5 on BA
>despite economy ticket, can use first class checkin and security and lounge
>enjoy lounge food and drinks until it's time to go to my 1h puddle jumper flight
LHR isn't all bad, I've had many bad experiences especially luggage related, but if you have access to the lounges and traveling light it's not bad at all.
I had a layover on my way back from Japan there just this weekend. When I saw all of the Pajeets I literally couldn't believe my eyes, unreal. Everything seemed overpriced and overcrowded. My bus also took 15 minutes to arrive, even though the ticker said "DUE" the entire time.
Here's my table:
-1 for:
No arrivals lounge
No smoking area
No security control at taxi rank
No food in departure
-3 for
No toilet in arrival
No power points
No water
No national bank desk/ATM
No wifi
No public transport connection
Tedious security controls
Slow transit/ have to clear security before transit
-5 for
Scam operator desks
Corrupt immigration desk
Aggressive airport security, body scanners, facial recognition
More than one departure terminal
Announcements not in English
By my reckoning the worst airports are all in Western countries. Third world airports are never great, but being small and valuing tourists they're only ever so bad.
Western airports don't give a frick about your money, think everyone's osamas cousin, smash your baggage, don't guarente transit before departure, as a consumer you get seriously fricked with
I have no idea of what you're talking about. Can you elaborate which Western airports you feel were the worst, and why?
Which western airports have >scam operator desks, >corrupt immigration desk, >announcements not in english ?
Because these are quite common in third world airports.
Is there such thing as an international airport with reasonably priced food? Just as a frame of reference, many of them have very well-known fast food chains, but their prices are markedly higher than their regular standalone & mall food court counterparts.
Even in a third-world low-cost country like Sri Lanka, a Burger King meal can cost $16 USD (no, I didn't actually buy it, I just distinctly remember the price which was actually posted on the menu in USD instead of LKR).
I understand that the prices are higher because the restaurants have higher rent costs and a desperate enough tourist will pay their absurd prices, but are there any airports that actually go against the grain and allow their restaurants to charge more reasonable prices?
I had good sushi at SJC that wasn't horrifically expensive. Go figure, it's all rich techies but when you're in Chicago Midway they want like $15 for 2 bottles of water. This country just thrives on finding ways to ripoff dumb Black folk.
airport food at kuala lumpur is like 6 dollars at most
I dont recall if it's like this at bangkok but I dont remember ever feeling like I couldn't eat there
I dont recall feeling ripped off anywhere in asia except for hong kong
Airport food on sale in Taipei is pretty inflated compared to street prices, as I recall, but still not very expensive. Maybe it was the same deal at Incheon? The only thing I remember about food there is that what was on offer in the biz lounge wasn’t very good; I vaguely recall people eating noodles in one of the (paid) restaurants that looked better than whatever I ended up picking at. But airside shop prices seemed OK.
And I don’t think I bought anything to eat at BKK last time I was there (I was also in a lounge then, and ate some “free” sushi IIRC), but prices I noticed seemed OK.
Taiwan airport 5 years ago had food franchises roughly the same as regular as far as I recall.
Airport food at kl is 2-3x more expensive than local. Also the shitty untrained foreign staff will probably make a mistake in your order anyways. Didn't use to be the case until this year.
some observations:
Munich airport is like a maze and way too narrow
Porto Santo airport is understaffed for the large amounts of flights that come in each day full of tourists, there's a reason why locals take the ferry even though it takes 3 times longer lole
Zagreb airport was quite good for food
>this is a fricking meme, there arent any migrants trying to force their way in via the fricking airport
Ok, I'm not even a /misc/tard but flying into LHR was awful, a million raggedy jeets and jamaicans with 5 family members with 4 suitcases per person all stuffed with saris they'll probably never wear again since its cold, who had just somehow managed to obtain an immigration visa and hadn't ever been on an international flight before and had no idea what to do, trying to bring fruit and rice and shit in their luggage, they really need a separate line for them. I've never seen this at other airports, being in what felt like an Ellis Island kind of environment.
Heathrow outbound was nice though, I'll give you that, other than I remember ALL of the food restaurants being run by poos and not being very good.
>Wait until you experience a US/Canadian airport with majority Black person staff
Can't speak for Canada but my best experiences with customs are always with black people in the US. They're held to low expectations so are pretty easy going, albeit dumb AF (one airport worker, not customs, told me the Lufthansa desk at LAX wasn't in the international terminal. "Lufthansa, the German airline, I'm going to europe" and I just got a blank stare.
The worst are the immigrants themselves, particularly asian. We don't have a lot of indians in that profession but we have like filipinos and chinese and they're awful, rude, and act like everyone who travels abroad (except to their origin country) is a smuggler. I'll always go in the line staffed by a black guy instead of an asian if I can.
Singapore airport just because the toilet decided to do an autoflush while I was taking a shit
you were wanting to admire your work? whats the problem
it's crazy what being chronically online does to you brain
>Bets on where it will be located below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dildo,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador
Lmao
>Can't speak for Canada but my best experiences with customs are always with black people in the US. They're held to low expectations so are pretty easy going, albeit dumb AF (one airport worker, not customs, told me the Lufthansa desk at LAX wasn't in the international terminal. "Lufthansa, the German airline, I'm going to europe" and I just got a blank stare.
>The worst are the immigrants themselves, particularly asian. We don't have a lot of indians in that profession but we have like filipinos and chinese and they're awful, rude, and act like everyone who travels abroad (except to their origin country) is a smuggler. I'll always go in the line staffed by a black guy instead of an asian if I can.
You cant seriously tell me youve never had the standard bad experience with power tripping Black person airport staff freaking out at you. Even completely woke friends & family will admit they avoid Black folk in the airport for that reason
Not him, but that's never happened to me. I can confirm Canadian border control being tougher and more invasive that US, especially now that to War on Terror is over.
>I can confirm Canadian border control being tougher and more invasive that US
i think you can only accurately judge if you're not a citizen of either
Then he didn't misspeak because I can also confirm Canada's immigration officers are ridiculously aggressive.
>You cant seriously tell me youve never had the standard bad experience with power tripping Black person airport staff freaking out at you.
maybe differences between immigration control and TSA.
TSA have no time for anyone who doesn't understand their abrupt shouting
Beijing
If transiting, you and thousands of other people have to line up for up two hours to go through passport control and go through the full security check. The staff are buttholes and the air quality inside an air conditioned building is dogshit. Every time I had this terrible tickly cough in my throat. It's all I have seen of China and I have resolved to never ever see that country again.
Frankfurt was a fricking nightmare. They were doing construction both times I was there. Fricking had to walk through unlit catacombs to get to my gate and the border guard at passport control didn't respond when I said guten tag.
Coming up in April I'll be flying from Glasgow to the Isle of Barra and back. I already know about the beach on Barra. What can I expect in Glasgow? LoganAir.
Bad: CDG, JFK, LAX, NAIA (Manila), MIA
Ok: SIN, OMAA, NRT, FCO, PHX
Good: HND, ICN, PDX, KIX, HEL, ZRH
Why do you like KIX better than NRT? KIX has nothing good airside
I rarely eat at airports. It’s too plebeian. Kansai has been good to me, in and out quickly each time I’ve been there.
So you never experience delays or transit?
Why would I eat in the airport when I get one or two full meals in the plane?
As for delays, I usually bring some snacks anyway.
the ANA first class, KAL, and asuka lounges are all pretty good. did you have problems with any of the lounges in KX?
>ICN in good and SIN in ok
SIN is the best airport in the world (HND close second), not just ok.
ICN is trash to avoid at any cost as another anon pointed out. Immigration queue frequently 2h, lounges have long queues and it’s fricking far from the Seoul. GMP is miles better in every regard.
Worst in a first world country was Tegel. Thank god covid finally put the last nail in its coffin. Current worst is CDG.
My two personal anti-favourites are De Gaule and JFK. By all standards they should not be that shitty and yet here we are.
Best: Heathrow Terminal 5
Worst: Heraklion, Crete, Greece
YUL, it is like a sewage pipe full of browns
jfk airport
Don't fly through Stansted unless you are curious as to what it's like to be a vegetable in a greenhouse
Copenhagen, no contest
>Dirty
>Hardly any toilets
>Different signs pointing to the same place but IN DIFFERENT FRICKING DIRECTIONS
>Two terminals but they are actually in the same terminal so there's only one terminal but there are two
>Passive aggressive, unhelpful and smug staff that treat you like shit for asking simple questions
>Transfer desk has one (aggressive) person staffing it so there are queues for ages
>Overall just unfriendly and miserable looking airport built in the 60s and never updated
FRICK Copenhagen airport
Best? Probably Inverness
I can’t comment on your staff experiences, but Copenhagen is one of the cleanest airports with plenty of toilets and has been upgraded continuously, so I would wager that you either had a bad day or you are just trollin’
I last went in 2018 tbf, maybe it has improved since
This is crazy to me. I really like this airport. But you are actually right about the signs being a bit confusing sometimes
Worst Airport without a doubt is Frankfurt(FRA).
Even though you have a connecting flight through there (since no one actually wants to go to Frankfurt), you have to exit the airport and reenter. This takes at least 3-4 hours of you're lucky. Flights halls wait for you but of course never tell you that.
I had a two hour layover I thought would be enough but it wasn't. They had a "pay $300/yr for fast lane!" open, and literally one security lane for everyone else. At the time I was trying to get through, no shit 3000 other people were too. It's like they purposefully make you wait and miss your flight so you buy their shit "fast lane" program. It should be illegal but its not. I will never fly through Frankfurt again, ever.
I stood in line checking my watch, seeing the line never move. The time for my flight comes and goes. I go to the front counter to see what I can do and they said "oh they delayed your flight, get back in line". Without a single notification from the flight, I told them to frick off and got on an ICE train to where I needed to go.
Exit Security, and yes you absolutely did if you change terminals.
next time use your brain and book flights so you don’t have to change terminals
non-schengen and schengen flights are usually in different terminals on big euro airports and that’s not necessarily a FRA thing (more like regulation, similarly how you have international/domestic in the US)
FRA sucks for multiple other reasons tho.
I have no choice but to do that as it's an intercontinental flight. No other airport flying into Europe has a shittier experience than FRA.
LHR probably, had to take a 30 minute bus ride between terminals, cramped, full of Black folk, not enough sitting space for the traffic, and also expensive and shitty food
People shit on CDG but my only experience there was effortlessly making a 60min layover with passport control included so I dunno what they are smoking
Morocco, Tangier
We had a visa from Czechia but those frickers so called "visa-officers" hold us on our flight to Spain for 2 hours because they didn't believe that Czech visa is a schengen visa. And airport was full of mosquitos with no AC in a very hot day of July.
Worst: cdg, lim, gru
Average: scl, eze
Good: osl
Cute: sdu, bgo
singapore airport
overrated as frick, its just big, there's honestly nothing in there except a couple of cafes that'll charge you $12 for a coffee.
kansai airport is what every other airport in the world should aspire to be; a cheap 5 storey department store with bars and planes
LAX and Philly are the worst airports I’ve ever been to. Detroit is the best.
Lima Airport because I just missed a flight there despite arriving 2.5 hours due to their delays and it cost me $700 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Ok other than that the airport was fine
Charles de Gaulle. Never seen so many scary looking black and brown people in one place in my life, and I say this as somebody who lives in Chicago. I was genuinely afraid for my safety. The whole terminal also smelled like shit and the buses were inconvenient as all hell, even the c**ts at the duty-free were pushy and rude.
nice to finally meet someone that shops at the duty free stores, amazing.
>Chicago
>Afraid of a place in Europe
Weak bait.
+1 on paris. you probably haven't visited paris in the last 2 years. truly a different experience than even 5 and definitely 10 years ago.
You obviously haven't visited Paris 10 years ago if ever and are just repeating /misc/cel memes. Paris was no different 10 or 20 or 50 years ago. It has always been full of brown people. You would know this if you had actually been there, you just outed yourself as a low quality larper.
You have brainrot
>Paris was no different 10 or 20 or 50 years ago
LMAO. Nobody actually believes this.
When is the last time you were in Paris? Were you there 10 or 20 years ago?
NTA, but I have been going to Paris more or less regularly ever since my childhood in the 90s. The last time I was there was about two weeks ago.
The difference between my first memories of the place and how it looks today is pretty steep. Paris was always not worth the hype, not because of /misc/Black person memes, but because people there were always rude, arrogant pricks. That said, the difference in demographics in those last twenty years is massive, with all its related ills included. At this point, Parisiens are still rude, arrogant pricks, but nowadays, you also have half of the third world there. I am not saying these are all bad people (the last time I got into trouble there, I got helped by a tea store owner from Iraq), but to say that Paris is the same as it was twenty years ago is simply factually wrong. Before you had some immigrants there (and a lot of them brutalized by the French into more or less integrating, like the Algerians), absolutely, but the amounts are simply incomparable. You can easily ride a subway and be one of the few Europeans in the fully packed train.
I was one of the few white people on the RER B from the airport when I visited Paris 12 years ago. This is absolutely nothing new. This is elementary mistake /misc/ virgin larpers always make.
>12 years ago
Yes.
Like I told you, I first visited in the 90s. It was very different then.
Unfortunately for you, larper, I have visited Paris in the 90s as well. It was not different. Just give it up.
>no u
Sad.
Probably Narita even though it makes me nostalgic thinking about it.
>far from Tokyo
>straight out of the 70s
>long immigration lines
>no good restaurants or stores after security
Haneda shits on it.
I was surprised by how old-fashioned Narita was. KIX shits on it as well
I can only add to the CDG bandwagon. It was a nightmare.
My favourites are Copenhagen and Warsaw Chopin Airport, they are both comfy
tbh any airport that requires riding some gadgetbahn for connecting flights booked on a single ticket is instantly shit
if it's not too far out of the way, and there's flights available, I'd highly recommend using SNA over LAX. It's not great or anything but it's simple and not completely fricked. Doesn't have too many international flights though.
Literally all of them
Except incheon
Any airport that requires you to ride a bus between terminals is automatically relegated to B tier at best. I remember being in Haneda and nearly missing my connecting flight because some dumb short zoomer b***h was refusing to move into the middle/back of the bus, thus requiring everyone else to slowly trickle in around her to get on. She would’ve probably stood there and made boarding the bus take 20 minutes if I didn’t tell her to get the frick out of the way.
You'd like SEATAC and their in house subway system to get to different terminals
tbh its not that bad tho. shit runs like every 3 minutes and is rarely completely packed. also pretty fast.
Narita was hilariously awful for getting around/to/from as well
I took the train in for a flight the next day & started a 25ish minute walk to my hotel only to find out they have barbed wire fencing in any conceivable exit and literally the only way out is by bus or car.
What were airport designers smoking in the 70s?
NRT was the subject of many protests by an unlikely alliance of college students and local farmers before, during, and after construction. Security used to be much tighter than you'd expect, and what you experienced was probably a remnant of that.
for me the smaller and quicker the airport the better it is, i dont really care about food, shopping etc.
so pretty easy win for gibraltar where youll be walking across the runway you landed on within a few minutes
Easily YYZ. Rude staff, shit layout, total fricking disaster.
The last one I've been that fricking sucked was Cayenne.
>before check-in, everyone has to wait outside in the heat, humidity, and with the raging mosquitoes.
>then there is a "100% Check" by French gendarmerie, which means:
>that you and your baggage is getting anally-probed to a silly degree
>that you have to pee in a cup while police officer (usually a big Black) is checking if you are truly pissing
>that you will be interrogated about pretty much everything, and, god forbids, you don't have a confirmation about paying your tickets or your stay
>if you get "marked" the same thing can (and will) repeat again in Paris and/or your final destination by local police
>these checks are not random, EVERYONE goes through them
>after this whole meme is concluded, you go back to the regular crowd, proving most of it made no sense at all
But that is not all.
>before check-in, there is basically nothing to do at all, the few stores are usually closed since locals are lazy fricks
>there are like six benches to sit
>the airport is like 14 km away from the city, with only jungle a shitty shacks in between
>as far as I know, there are no buses to the city whatsoever, so you have to use taxis
>taxi prices are straight up robbery, you'll pay like 50 Euros for those 14 km and that is in case you know French and you are not a complete sucker
>after check-in, the area is quite agreeable, but since it is under the roof, it's hot as frick
French Guiana suck balls in general, but the airport is a highlight from the whole shitshow.
>French Guiana
What the hell were you doing there?
I would say but I'd be banned, sorry.
That was a shit story on its own.
>have a great friend. We have known each other for nearly twenty years
>a few years ago, he joined up with FFL and ultimately ended up in Guiana with 3REI
>really likes it there
>finds a Brazilian girl and starts a family with her
>becomes a deserter, staying in Guiana
>family situation becomes kinda rocky (his wife gets addicted to cocaine and alcohol)
>but they manage to keep it civil, sharing time with their kids. He is trying his best to raise them well
>at this point, I am looking for a vacation. I haven't seen him in ages, and I generally like to travel to exotic places like that
>arrive there
>the last time I saw him, he was a big, SighSee, honest dude who was an NCO in FFL
>now, he is a completely unhealthy skinny wreck with addict twitchy movements and hobo rashes, sleeping god knows where
>quickly find out that everything he blamed his wife for (that she is an addict, alcoholic, etc.) is what he was doing himself
>comes up with a sob story about how he owns money to some bad people
>of course I help him, like a clueless motherfricker
>he immediately blows the money through his nose
>this continues for another two days
>I become very weary of this, and then stuff happens, and I start being worried for my safety
>change my flight and leave without telling him, spending an unholy amount of money for a taxi to the capital
>the fact I visited only for a few days makes the police checks I mentioned above much worse, too
Have you spoken to him since? Or did you know when you high tailed it out of there you were saying goodbye forever?
all airports are shitty
but i would have to say puerto plata
the restaurants who all use the same menu. talk about price collusion.
Turkey - istanbul s. Gokcen. The one where pegasus Airlines flies and there's no tap water and bottled water is 10 euros per bottle. Worst layover ever. Worst airline as well until I sat next to this Georgian dude who wanted to drink whiskey with me which was funny.
>10 euros
Really? I was in Gokcen last week, bottled water costed 10 liras on the machines
I saw bottled mineral water for €13/750mL there just a couple of months ago, scroll up for photo. It was imported, yeah (San Pellegrino), but hilariously overpriced. This was, perhaps obviously, airside—I had breakfast before security at a Simit Sarayı and wasn’t too horrified by the prices (they were maybe twice the in-town price).
Maybe it was that, also thinking about it i saw the 10 lira water only in the domestic departures area, not the int.
>saw the 10 lira water only in the domestic departures area, not the int.
And there you have it. There were vending machines in the intl departures area as well, I think, but I didn’t check the prices. I would be 0% surprised if they were higher than in domestic.
Probably YYZ.
for me it was tunesia
Toronto airport was ass. Not enough variety of restaurants. Instead some overpriced bars and Tim Hortons.
Dubai airport is GOATED.
Frankfurt Hahn. It's a Ryanair hub in BFE Germany. There is nothing to do and it is pretty much a bus stop.
Chicago