Top Ten Airports.

[Gob]

The best airports in the world have been named in the annual World Airport Awards.

South Korea's Incheon Airport has again been named the world's best, taking out the top award for the second time after first winning in 2009.

The airport was ranked in the world's top five for eight of the 10 award categories from Skytrax, which include accessibility, comfort, speed of transit, friendliness of staff, and shopping and other facilities.

Advertisement: Story continues below The awards, announced last month, are based on surveys conducted by Skytrax with 12 million passengers of 100 different nationalities over a nine month period.

Asian airports dominated the list, with six of the top 10 slots awarded to airports in the region.

World's top 10 best airports

1. Incheon International Airport

2. Singapore Changi Airport

3. Hong Kong International Airport

4. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

5. Beijing Capital International Airport

6. Munich Airport

7. Zurich Airport

8. Kuala Lumpur International Airport

9. Vancouver International Airport

10. Central Japan International Airport

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[dales]

No US airports?

Why?

TSA.

[Lord Jim]

Heathrow's Terminal 5, opened in 2008, won the award for best airport terminal, while the airport also won the award for best shopping. Another London airport, Stansted, won the award for best low-cost airport.

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Well thank God for that....

There's nothing I look for more in an airport when I'm traveling than the quality of the stores....

Hell, if the shopping is good enough at the airport, you don't even have to be bothered with going into the town...

No US airports?

Why?

TSA.

Dale, I'd bet that Beijing Capital International Airport has a fairly robust security presence....

[Scooter]

There's a reason that retail stores exist in airports, it's because they know that people with time on their hands will spend some of it (along with their money) shopping. There's a level of Amsterdam Schipol that's nothing but retail - it's like going to the mall.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Well having been to most of them I think Seoul, HK and Singapore are well deserving. Caveat: HKI is nowhere near as exciting to land on as the old Kai Tak "watch the neighbours sitting on the loo" landings downtown. Second Caveat: they must have done something wild to the approach roads to Seoul because that used be worse than taking the M25 to get to Heathrow - must have carpet-bombed all the Korean drivers. Still I suppose the survey is about one you get there - not how difficult it is to achieve a sane and safe arrival

Meade