Worse airport terminals

[Gob]

What it says on the tin.



Most airports are awful. Some are lovely, like the 10 prettiest airport terminals profiled last week. But most are at best joyless econoboxes, at worst purgatorial warehouses of stalled lives.

Some airports deserve special condemnation, though. In some cases, they deserve to be literally condemned. Assembling this top 10 list of misfits I scanned professional surveys and delay statistics and asked my frequent-traveler friends to come up with the ten airports where you'd least like to spend an extra hour.

Maybe you'll find your own least-favorite airport left off this list. What about Atlanta's immigration delays, Washington Dulles's absurd midfield terminal, or Heathrow Terminal 5's baggage indigestion problems? There are too many frustrating airports in the world to include here -- these are just my bottom 10 picks.

Also, I'm sticking to major airports here. There are small airports around the world that consist of a shanty that swelters in the summer and freezes in the winter, with a hole in the wall for baggage claim and a single sad concession stand. (I'm actually describing my experience at Udaipur Airport in India in 1999). But that's not fair. These ten airports should deliver better service, and they don't. I'm listing them from least worst to the absolute worst.



Read more: http://www.frommers.com/slideshow/index ... z1pXsG0u65

I've done Charles De Galle, Moscow Sheremtyevo, and Manila Airport.

[The Hen]

Moscow Sheremtyevo Airport Terminal B/C, Russia

One of the two airports rated "two stars" by global consulting firm Skytrax (nobody got one star), SVO B/C got particularly bad marks for anything where you have to interact with airport staff: their attitude, their language skills, and the speed with which they process passengers.

Reviewers suggest that you brush up on your Russian if you intend to transfer flights, because signboards and staff tend not to work in English. Apparently, you can fix up a Russian airport, but it's harder to fix up Russian customer service. (In capitalist Russia, customer services you!)

Depressingly, SVO Terminal B/C is partially a new terminal, but it still got one or two-star rankings from Skytrax on "leisure facilities," "baggage hall," and "meet and greet." It's also several miles away from the rest of the airport and from its rail station, making inter-terminal connections difficult. Air France cautions "Take official claims of short transfer times with a pinch of salt: delays of up to two hours have been reported."

Fortunately, there's a better alternative nearby: Domodedovo Airport, which generally gets better rankings and reviews.



Read more: http://www.frommers.com/slideshow/index ... z1pXwgpuls

Shudder.

[dales]

Jimmy Carter Regional Airport



I couldn't finad an actual picture of the dump.

Meanwhile RONALD REAGAN has an international airport named in his honor in our nation's capitol.

[Gob]

I couldn't think of anything more inspiring to make people want to fly away from the USA Dales!

[Scooter]

Meanwhile RONALD REAGAN has an international airport named in his honor in our nation's capitol.

Well no, actually, it's called Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport precisely because it is not an international airport. It has no customs and immigration facilities and so passengers arriving from beyond U.S. borders (Canada, Bahamas, etc.) have to pre-clear U.S. customs and immigration in their own countries and from that point are considered U.S. domestic passengers.

[dales]

Still ups regional terminus.

and Gob, just for you...





Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC
Didn't get to bed last night
On the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man, I had a dreadful flight
I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the USSR, yeah

Been away so long I early knew the place
Gee, it's good to be back home
Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case
Honey disconnect the phone
I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the US
Back in the US
Back in the USSR

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Geogie's always on my my my my my my my my my mind
Oh, come on
Hu hey hu, hey, ah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are, boys
Back in the USSR

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia's always on my my my my my my my my my mind

Oh, show me round your snow peaked
Mountain way down south
Take me to your daddy's farm
Let me hear your balalaika's ringing out
Come and keep your comrade warm
I'm back in the USSR
Hey, you don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the USSR
Oh, let me tell you honey

[Gob]

Trust no one!!

[dales]

Disgusting, and my tax money pays the salary of these TSA numb nuts.

The last time I flew (2007) was to my daughter's wedding in Hawaii. The TSA confiscated my Zippo lighter, I couldn't lite up for 4+ hours, I got off and ran into Honolulu terminal (no smoking) and finally had a cigarette out in the d@mned parking lot.

In the 1960's, flying was an enjoyable experience, not the crap in a can we all have to put up with today.

I will never fly anywhere again.

No need to.

[Jarlaxle]

I will hitch-hike before I will fly...it's less hassle.

[rubato]

"...
Meanwhile RONALD REAGAN has an international airport named in his honor in our nation's capitol.

And Republicans give him credit for the sun rising EVERY SINGLE DAY while he was president too.

This reflects on, whom?

yrs,
rubato

[dales]

And Republicans give him credit for the sun rising EVERY SINGLE DAY while he was president too.

And he defeated those evil soviets.

[dales]

Another southern local airport seeks name-change...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... air-again/

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Good ol’ Bubba. He never disappoints. He’s always reaching for something new to feed his ravenous ego, now that age has withered, among other things, his ravenous libido.

He has persuaded the real-estate hustlers, small-town hucksters and dime-store merchants who mismanage things in Little Rock to rename the municipal airport to carry his name — and Miss Hillary‘s, of course — unto the next millennium. Or at least until someone else runs things.

The Little Rock Airport Commission has been trying to clean up, or at least hide, scandal and mismanagement. Now the commission thinks it would be cool to erase the name of a hometown Air National Guard pilot killed in the line of duty, which has adorned the airport for 75 years, and replace it with the name of the nation’s most celebrated draft dodger.

<snipper>

I wonder if BJ Clinton was ever a member of the "mile high club"?

[Sean]

Well I'm just surprised that BSG hasn't gone batshit over the thread title yet...

[BoSoxGal]

I did initially experience some over the thread title, but then I thought 'meh, why keep pointing out the Welshman's difficulties with basic English? It can't be helped'

@ Gob

Anyway, I'm more affronted by the reminder that a perfectly good airport name was ruined by rabid Republicans. I'm actually just now booking flights into that airport to spend Memorial Day week visiting a law school classmate; I'm happy to report that the airport codes still log it as Washington National. You will never hear me call it anything other.

[Sean]

I did initially experience some over the thread title, but then I thought 'meh, why keep pointing out the Welshman's difficulties with basic English? It can't be helped'

@ Gob

I think that he's been overcompensating on the vowels since he left the motherland...

[Gob]

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Fuck you!