s*6
发帖数: 3972 | 1 http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/world-s-worst-airport-terminals.h
Most airports are awful. At best they’re 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 10 airports where you'd least like to
spend an extra hour.
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 10 airports should deliver
better service, and they don't. I'm listing them from least worst to the
absolute worst.
Chicago Midway Airport
Chicago Midway Airport (fboyd)
Chicago's Midway airport ranked as the nation's worst for on-time departures
in the most recent federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics data,
earning it a spot on this list. It isn't a bad place to hang out, with a new
food court and a frequent subway connection to downtown Chicago, but any
airport is the worst airport if you're stuck there and you aren't getting on
a plane.
Consider this the least worst of our set of bad airports. Midway's curse may
come more from Chicago's notoriously difficult weather than from any
problem the airport itself can fix.
"Paris" Beauvais Airport, France
"Paris" Beauvais Airport, France (scalleja)
A solid 50 miles north of Paris, this depressing low-cost box of an airport
in Picardy got saddled with a bait-and-switch name by Ryanair, the ultimate
bait-and-switch airline. It rated as one of the world's worst airports by
Frommers.com friends SleepingInAirports.net because of its lack of seating,
lack of services, and general half-tent, half-warehouse atmosphere.
It lacks a rail link to Paris and closes overnight, so hope that your flight
doesn't get too delayed, or you may be camping out on the lawn.
For years, Ryanair liked to play this trick of stamping the names of famous
cities on distant small-town airports with poor transit links that weren't
designed for much tourist traffic: thus Beauvais and "Barcelona Reus," which
is more than an hour and a half from Barcelona.
Newark Airport Terminal B
Newark Airport Terminal B (livatlantis)
All three major New York City airports are on this list, in large part
because they're run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a
hideously mismanaged money sink that does a poor job of responding to air
travelers' needs.
Newark got two stars -- the worst rating -- in JD Power's 2010 airport study
. It's also the nation's worst airport for on-time arrivals in the most
recent federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics data.
Fortunately you'll be stuck waiting at your point of origin, because Newark
is an awfully dull airport to wait for a flight in. The airport idiotically
puts security before individual piers in Terminals A and B, which means that
rather than have a whole terminal's food and shopping to entertain you, you
're stuck out on a single pier. It's pretty quiet out there.
LaGuardia Airport US Airways Terminal,
LaGuardia Airport US Airways Terminal, New York City (andrea_r)
New York City
I don't hate LaGuardia, but it was recently rated the worst major airport in
America by both JD Power and Associates and Zagat Survey, so who am I to
argue?
LaGuardia has no rail link to anywhere -- even between its own terminals --
and regularly suffers from congestion, overcrowding, and delays. While its
terminals are shaping up, they're still each smaller and with fewer services
than you'd expect from an airport at one of the top tourist destinations in
the world.
I'm giving the US Airways Terminal the worst-terminal award here because at
least the central terminal has an atrium and the Delta terminal just got
some new food options. The US Airways terminal is dull and sad.
Amman Queen Alia Airport, Jordan
Amman Queen Alia Airport , Jordan (pshegubj)
One of the two airports rated "two stars" by global consulting firm Skytrax,
Amman gets lousy ratings for services that might be useful if you're
hanging around -- bathroom cleanliness, places to rest, children’s play
facilities, and service counters.
Reviews on the Skytrax website make it clear that you may just want to "hold
it" in this airport: they're almost universally appalled at the state of
the bathrooms. Those reviewers have probably never been to JFK Terminal 3,
but still, that isn't good.
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport,
Paris -- Charles de Gaulle Airport, Terminal 3 (jp_math54)
Terminal 3
CDG got the "worst airport" award two years running from SleepingInAirports.
net, but this year site owner Donna McSherry decided to give it a break, in
part because now "the homeless population was being segregated" to "the
Third World-inspired Terminal 3." Big takeaway here: If you're worrying
about how to distribute your homeless population, you're one of the worst
major airports.
De Gaulle is a huge airport where many people have to transfer, but it's an
awful airport to change planes in; many flights require a change between CDG
's various scattered terminal buildings, which are connected primarily by
slow, confusing shuttle buses. Changing planes here is tiring, irritating,
and sometimes a little terrifying.
This being Paris, there is also usually a strike on.
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport,
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi (kenyaphotos)
Nairobi
Nairobi's airport, which aspires to be an international hub, was built to
support about 2.5 million passengers and now averages about double that. As
a result, the Kenyan government announced plans to expand the airport. That
was in 2005. They aren't done yet.
I've been to JKIA, and it reinforces all of the bad stereotypes about Africa
that you wish weren't true. It's hot, ugly, dirty and confusing, full of
touts and scam artists and perpetually overcrowded. African airports don't
have to be like this, of course: the Marrakech airport is one of the most
beautiful in the world, and Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo airport is at least
efficient.
The Kenyan government says construction on a new terminal will begin in
January. Perhaps someday, the Nairobi airport improvement project will be
finished. Until then, this Third World construction site remains a place for
travelers to avoid.
Moscow Sheremtyevo Airport,
Moscow Sheremtyevo Airport Terminal B/C, Russia (killerbass)
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.
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.
Fortunately, there's a better alternative nearby: Domodedovo Airport, which
generally gets better rankings and reviews.
Manila Airport Terminal 1, Philippines
Manila Airport Terminal 1, Philippines (jeffrey)
Last May, the ceiling at Manila airport's Terminal 1 caved in, injuring two
people. That's part of why Sleeping in Airports rated it the world's worst
terminal last year.
"The terminal has been a frequent target of criticism with travelers and the
business community complaining it is congested, run-down and filthy, with
toilets that do not work," Agence France Presse commented. According to
Sleeping In Airports, bribery and theft are also rampant in the terminal.
The negative press attention seems to have had some effect; this November
the Philippine government said it would renovate the terminal starting in
January. It looks like changes can't come too soon.
JFK Airport Terminal 3, New York City
JFK Airport Terminal 3, New York City (couchetard)
In 1960, Pan American Airlines built the Worldport: a grand, flying-saucer-
shaped gateway to the Jet Age.
Fifty-one years later, this decrepit, crumbling chunk of concrete is still
used by Delta as an international hub. Terminal 3 is the worst single
airport terminal in America, and probably in the Western world. Even Delta
acknowledges this: they're tearing it down and replacing it with a giant
glass structure connected to the nearby Terminal 4. It's unsalvageable.
Terminal 3 is known for endless immigration lines in a dank basement, for an
utter lack of food and shopping options, three crowded and confusing entry
points, hallways that could have been designed by M.C Escher and for
vomiting international travelers out onto an underground sidewalk with no
cabs available. There's also a sense that the cleaning crew gave up in
despair a while ago.
LAX没有上榜哎~ | s*******d
发帖数: 17566 | 2 Midway 我每年最少飞一次，感觉还可以啊。离Downtown 近，CTA 出门就是，里面吃的
也不错。Newark 和JFK 确实乱点，不过也是旧了，进出的人又多。 | Y***r
发帖数: 15270 | 3 Midway貌似只有Southwest，这和你积累里程习惯不符啊
【在 s*******d 的大作中提到】
: Midway 我每年最少飞一次，感觉还可以啊。离Downtown 近，CTA 出门就是，里面吃的
: 也不错。Newark 和JFK 确实乱点，不过也是旧了，进出的人又多。
| s*******d
发帖数: 17566 | 4 我确实坐西南从LAX去的， 不过那个是特殊情况：因为在McCormick做秀，结束后当天
去那里近，要是去瓯海赶上堵车就来不及了。
【在 Y***r 的大作中提到】
: Midway貌似只有Southwest，这和你积累里程习惯不符啊
| Y***r
发帖数: 15270 | 5 尼玛，不要告诉我你的秀也是5月的，我也是每年去一次
【在 s*******d 的大作中提到】
: 我确实坐西南从LAX去的， 不过那个是特殊情况：因为在McCormick做秀，结束后当天
: 去那里近，要是去瓯海赶上堵车就来不及了。
| s*******d
发帖数: 17566 | 6 三月，以前是一月，那个冷啊 。三月还是很冷，飞机经常要地爱死后才能飞
【在 Y***r 的大作中提到】
: 尼玛，不要告诉我你的秀也是5月的，我也是每年去一次
| l*****9
发帖数: 1058 | 7 这个list是指terminal, lax虽然整个机场都差，转机困难，但各个terminal估计还凑
活。最重要的一点，la地区天气奇好，晚点几率比中西部机场小。 | z*********n
发帖数: 94654 | 8 LAX早点率太高，最近几年接人我几乎全都迟到
我按着飞机点去的，结果人都等了半个小时了
【在 l*****9 的大作中提到】
: 这个list是指terminal, lax虽然整个机场都差，转机困难，但各个terminal估计还凑
: 活。最重要的一点，la地区天气奇好，晚点几率比中西部机场小。
| r*c
发帖数: 16750 | 9 lax挺好的，为啥上这榜。好像la地区几个机场也都还不错。 | T******e
发帖数: 18290 | 10 像我这样去过上个世纪90年代火车站的人，不会觉得哪个机场脏乱差
I
【在 s*6 的大作中提到】
: http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/world-s-worst-airport-terminals.h
: Most airports are awful. At best they’re 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 10 airports where you'd least like to
: spend an extra hour.
: 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
| | | a*******2
发帖数: 2857 | | C**********s
发帖数: 1282 | 12 LAX's Tom Bradley Terminal will be much better when the construction is done
. | r*c
发帖数: 16750 | 13 我也觉得不错，
在inchen机场看5个小时韩式美女也不差
【在 a*******2 的大作中提到】
: 个人喜欢韩国的【首尔机场】
| a*******2
发帖数: 2857 | 14 上次俺在那里转机，到城里转悠了几个小时。。。。。。。
【在 r*c 的大作中提到】
: 我也觉得不错，
: 在inchen机场看5个小时韩式美女也不差
| s*6
发帖数: 3972 | 15 Has the construction already began?
done
【在 C**********s 的大作中提到】
: LAX's Tom Bradley Terminal will be much better when the construction is done
: .
| a******o
发帖数: 7982 | 16 hahaha, right,LAX到是非常快。我都没有于上晚点的
【在 z*********n 的大作中提到】
: LAX早点率太高，最近几年接人我几乎全都迟到
: 我按着飞机点去的，结果人都等了半个小时了
| l*****u
发帖数: 12114 | 17 设施上同意这个。吃面不错。活动也不错。可是电源接口比较郁闷。
风景上成田在樱花时节很赞。最无聊的是西斯罗。喜欢吃肉的话阿根廷那个和巴西圣保
罗那个还好。
yourself."
【在 a*******2 的大作中提到】
: 个人喜欢韩国的【首尔机场】
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