Airports you love & hate
 

Following from another thread, give your best and worst airports + those you have had the pleasure (or not) of visiting :

Mine -

Best = Singapore
Worst = Jakarta
Visited =

Aberdeen
Adelaide
Alice Springs
Amsterdam
Antigua
Athens
Atlanta
Bali
Bangkok
Barbados
Barcelona
Basle
Blackpool
Bologna
Bordeaux
Bremen
Bruxelles
Budapest
Cairns
Carcassone
Chicago
Copenhagen
Detroit
Dominica
Dublin
East Midlands
Edinburgh
Exeter
Frankfurt
Fuertenventura
Geneva
Girona
Glasgow
Gothenburg
Gran Canaria
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (St Francois)
Guernsey
Hong Kong
Ibiza
Inverness
Jakarta
Kuala Lumpur
Lanzarote
Larnaca
Lisbon
London - Gatwick
London - Heathrow
Los Angeles
Luleo
Luton
Madrid
Marakesh
Marseille
Martinique
Melbourne
Milan
Minorca
Montpellier
Munich
Newcastle
Newquay
Nice
Nimes
NY - Newark
Oslo - new
Oslo - old
Ovda
Paris - CDG
Paris - Orly
Penang
Prestwick
Rome
San Francisco
Seoul
Singapore
St Lucia
Stansted
Stockholm - Arlanda
Stockholm - Bromma
Sydney
Tai Peh
Teeside
Trollhattan
Turin
Vienna
Warsaw
Zurich


Peter

Hmm
forgot to include :


Turin

One of the worst !

Peter

Best in my experience - Zurich and Frankfurt

Worst - Paris CDG

Best for me: Hong Kong, and Amsterdam.

I suppose I should be thankful that the worst airport I can think of is Montreal. Maybe I should get out more ...

Anselm

As a Washingtonian, I can't STAND Dulles! After visiting lovely and efficient airports abroad it is so depressing to come home and wait 20 minutes for herding onto a "people mover" to reach the terminal. Thank goodness there's construction underway to bring that place into the 21st century. . .

I don't have a problem with many airports, except CDG it has to be the most poorly organized airport ever!

I agree with Singapore as the best. How can your jaw not drop open as you are whisked along miles of moving beltways through millions of orchids?

But then they are the only ones who got the subway thing totally right as well.

The best is the one taking me to Europe and the worst is the one taking me home! ;)

Wow, this makes my mind swirl! I have been in so many airports, it is difficult to decide which is the "worst" and "best".

My favorite 3:

1. Rome - L. D. Vinci
2. Schilpol
3. Narita, Tokyo

Least favorite:

1. JFK (dirty dirty dirty!)
2. Vancouver (freaky layout and disorganized IMHO)
3. Wuhan, China

I have been to SO many airports, I can't list them all.

TexasAggie has it about right, far as I can tell.

Peter, you sure get around :)

Best: Zurich and Amsterdam
Worst: CDG!

Tracy

I HATE de Gaulle, for a variety of reasons, not least of which someone there managed to send my bags to Luxor instead of Luxembourg, and it's poorly marked and easy to get lost in. Also don't like da Vinci much, very hard to find what you're looking for (at least, if what you're looking for is the Northwest counter).

Can't say I really love any airports, though I was just in Luton, and the airport itself was very nice, although a PITA to get to.

Other ones I've been to, in no particular order:

Los Angeles
Orange County
DFW
Love Field
Newark
Maui
Honolulu
Philadelphia
Gatwick
Allentown
Pittsburg
Detroit
Frankfurt am Main
Olbia
Somewhere near Ibbenbueren
Atlanta
Orlando
Edinburgh
Providence
Albuquerque

Oh, and all the DC airports, Reagan, Baltimore-Washington, and Dulles, also whatever the closest one to Stanford is (San something), and Amarillo (or maybe it was Lubbock)

Best: Singapore - arrange a long enough layover to take the free city tour
Dubai: great window shopping and people-watching
Worst: any US airport - I resent having to pay for a luggage cart (and yes, I do travel light)

Favorite: Munich
Least favorite: Moscow Sheremetyevo

My favorite and worst are the same airport, Detroit.

If you are flying Northwest, the new terminal is fabulous (well, I haven't been to Singapore). But if you are flying another airline into the old part, you swear you are in a third world bus station. And the international terminal is sooo 70's mod squad with a hair-net cafeteria and 24 hour vending machines.

Well I'm not nearly as well travelled as some of the rest of you, but in my limited experience, my favorite airport is London Heathrow, for the shopping. I actually factor shopping time into my schedule when I've come home from the UK.

I also like the way that DFW is laid out, it's a short walk from the gate to the baggage claim to the parking lot and it's all on one level.

My airport resume includes:
(In the U.S.)
LAX
Long Beach
DFW
Phoenix
Las Vegas
Chicago O'Hare
Salt Lake City
Minneapolis
Cleveland
Atlanta
Denver (old & new)
Sarasota
Honolulu

Outside the U.S.
Mazatlan
Puero Vallarta
Cancun
Belize City
San Pedro (Belize)
Madrid
Azores
London Heathrow
Tangier, Morocco
Algeciras, Spain
Palma de Majorca, Spain

KellieBellie....you are so right about Detroit. I get embarrassed when I have to pick someone up at the old terminal. It's much worse than the old Northwest Terminal which is now not even in use.

Yeah, I assumed all the other airlines would move into Northwest's old hand-me-down terminal which was much better than where they are now. I never understood that.