Posted on 01/24/2024 8:32:48 AM PST by Vigilanteman
This is a broadcast clip on the 11 worst airports in America according to a Wall Street Journal survey. Here they are from worst to 11st worst:
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
I am retired and don’t fly that often, but I think that for the number of people the Atlanta airport must deal with every day, it’s fine. I like it. I like things that work.
My son has to fly often for business throughout the country, and he thinks the Tulsa airport has been the best experience. It is quiet,clean, well organized, minimally stressful, and efficient - on a much smaller scale than is needed for Atlanta, of course.
Never had to rent a car at the Oakland Airport since I live in NorCal, but the shuttle buses to the car rental places seem to run efficiently. Getting an Uber or Lyft there is easy
My thought exactly. I especially do not like the Atlanta airport
The Best and Worst U.S. Airports | WSJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBEuDMY8XTk
Better video presentation from WSJ.
TSA agents at DFW confiscated Dana Loesch’s microphone stand the other day, because “it could be used as a weapon”.
I kind of liked riding the Skylink train. It had enough G forces to be interesting if you were standing. But half the time I didn’t ride it and just enjoyed getting a longish walk in. For years one of the terminals had a mediocre Italian restaurant that I liked — East End Mario’s. I’d walk all the way down there, get a plate of spaghetti & meatballs and do a little people watching, and then walk all the way back.
My main memory of LAX is that it looked extremely dated, with drop down acoustical tile ceilings all over the place. I have a bad memory of being herded like animals in the TSA rope line at the Atlanta airport. For some reason they had to urgently reroute the ropes while we were still amongst the ropes. Mainly I felt bad for the confused foreigners who couldn’t understand the commands being shouted at us. Charlotte has a cute airport IIRC. Knoxville and Huntsville have nice little airports.
“Yeah, LAX SUCKS if you’re going from the international terminal to domestic or vice versa. You need at least a one hour layover to make the transition.”
Denver is the same basic way. Three concourses all separated by a train. Total time for gate-train-gate is about 30 minutes at a minimum.
Newark is a turd, in a portapotty, floating in a cesspool of AIDS and diarrhea. It is absolutely disgusting and filthy.
Yeah. DFW wasn’t bad all the times I flew in and out of that airport. When I would have a long layover I would just park my arse on the shuttle train and ride around while reading for a couple hours.
“The persistent vagrants in the baggage claim areas are the cherry on top of the sh*t sundae.”
After finally flying after the lockdowns, I recently flew to SFO for a funeral. The unused baggage claim is a homeless camp. They let the bums run the place. There are tents, boxes, shopping carts, and filth everywhere. What a great welcome for travelers.
Logan is awful and can take longer to get your bag than your actual flight.
I found Fort Lauderdale to be a pretty easy airport to navigate.
>Denver is the same basic way. Three concourses all separated by a train. Total time for gate-train-gate is about 30 minutes at a minimum.
Yeah, I had to spend the night at the Denver airport.
Phoenix sucks. The worse one I’ve been in was Kansas City.
DFW is modern for the US. It is only about 50 years old.
These do it better. There are tons of conspiracy theories about the Denver airport:
https://www.uncovercolorado.com/denver-airport-murals-painting-location/
https://www.uncovercolorado.com/conspiracy-theories-denver-international-airport/
Most of the “weirdness” has been “debunked” but then, of course it has.
MDW is how you feel the third day of the flu.
The neighborhood surrounding HOU is mid-zombie.
They gave up trying to fix the little broken things at LAX in 2003.
I am meeting my sister there. We are flying in from different places. She has a regular Uber that she uses on her trips to the area.
Opened I believe in 1974.
There is no train anymore, I believe. Use Skylink in the secured area or bus on the outside.
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