Faro. <BR>Last twice I waited over an hour for baggage & queued outside the terminal building to check in.Its too samall for the number of flights it hosts.

By far - CDG!!! <BR>It takes about 1.5 hours from the minute your plane lands till you are able to reach your connection. <BR>It is the most inefficient airport in the world! <BR>Ada

None of the European airports can compare to Chicago-O'Hare. It has the worst signage and rude employees of all the airports. I've even had some bad experiences in Schipol-Amsterdam, but it still is a piece of cake compared to O'Hare

Oh yeeeeeeees. O'Hare. <BR>The only GOOD thing about living in Chicagoland is that I never have to change planes there. And it's miserable enough without that. The politics of O'Hare ensure it will continue to be the mess that it is for the foreseeable future. <BR>On the foreign front I second [third... fifth?] the vote for CDG 1.

Whether or not Heathrow or Gatwick or Stansted are themselves reasonable airports, being booked with a connection that involves a transfer from one to another is an enormous hassle. There has got to be a better way to connect through "London" airports.

Outside of Eastern Europe, NOTHING is as bad as Heathrow. It takes about 6 weeks to transfer from an international to an internal flight, the ENTIRE airport shut down in December because an inch of snow fell! The sad part is that I'm probably overestimating the amount of snow. <BR> <BR>Also, I was once stopped at security for about 30 minutes because the security guy didn't know what an e-ticket was (for our flight onward from Heathrow). <BR> <BR>In the international departure lounge, there are no good restaurants or even fast food, and about the only decent food option is to buy sandwiches from the Harrod's store.

The London airports are not intended to share flight connections. If your agent suggest such a connection, then you should refuse it. The road distance between Gatwick and Stanstead, for example, is over 70 miles, around one of the worlds largest cities.

Anna, you must have been to a different Heathrow than the one I fly from every month. The international departure lounge has a plethora of restaurants and fast food outlets.

In defence of Heathrow. Never had a problem with a lack of food or good service and I am talking about cattle class. Just last week I checked in at Paddington station rather than the airport. Took about 30 seconds. With no luggage you can check in one hour prior to departure and two hours with luggage. Not sure where else this can be done!

We also have never had a problem at Heathrow in the 6 or so times we've been to London. A couple of times we've had to transfer to Gatwick, and we've had no problem doing that either. We do always allow PLENTY of time to check in, make connections, etc. so maybe that's why we haven't experienced the frustrations others have.

Heathrow is a lovely mall, and I am, personally, fanatical about plenty of time to make flights and connections. But I've gotta say that it is a horrifying place to negotiate during peak season when your flight from Amsterdam was over 2 hours late and you've been sent down secret staircases and nobody seems to know what to do at the counter to which you've just been sent. (There was also the time when the late unlamented PanAm had overbooked by about 100 people and we had to run through miles of corridors in order to get on the plane to which we were finally assigned.) It really is lovely; it's just that it seems to be a nightmarish universe of its own at times. (OK, other times no problem at all, but the problems are memorable ones.)