Your Least Favorite Airport (Spinoff Of Favorite Airport)

[Kitty 34]

Wasn't a fan of NOLA but after some flying issues last year I'm not a huge fan of DFW but I really think that was more AA airline's fault for my dislike.

 

[loves to dive]

Oh wait, just remembered Guam. We were flying out of Palau and you had to hop to Guam, Hawaii, San Francisco then Atlanta. The flight coming into Guam from France was late so we ended up having to spend the night in the airport in Guam. There weren't even enough chairs for the whole flight of people so most of us slept on the floor. No shops, no restaurants, just a hallway. The good news was we got bumped up to first class on the Hawaii leg and they had to put us all up for the night in Honolulu, on the beach. So arrived sort of in the night and had the entire next day until around 7 pm to play there so that was fun. Guam, not so much.

 

[disney castle days]

Trenton, it's cramped, barely any airlines fly out of it, and they charge for everything. Although Newark would be a pretty close second.

 

[FINFAN]

O'Hare. Most workers always look ans grey and sullen as the airport itself. Who wants to fly into that? Midway isn't much better but at least super easy for parking and navigating through. I fly out of there is I can.

 

[Rockette]

Trenton, it's cramped, barely any airlines fly out of it, and they charge for everything. Although Newark would be a pretty close second.

I wasn't even aware Trenton had a commercial airport.

 

[bcla]

I wasn't even aware Trenton had a commercial airport.

There are a lot of smaller airport that barely have passenger service. I think the biggest obstacle is getting the TSA to come to such a small airport. We actually have one in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's got a pretty cool logo too:

Allegiant Air seems to operate out of a lot of small airports. Sometimes they're the only carrier serving a particular airport.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

LaGuardia and Washington National. (Although it's been over 20 years since I've been to DCA, maybe it's better now).


DW and I dropped her daughter off at Trenton, NJ airport this afternoon for an Allegiant flight to Orlando/Sanford. Very tiny airport, almost looks third world.

LMAO when baggage claim is a trailer, uh I think your nomination is going to win.

 

[bcla]

LMAO when baggage claim is a trailer, uh I think your nomination is going to win.

I thought that Sonoma County Airport was pretty small, with this for the baggage carousel:

Then I saw a photo of what Trenton has:

 

[hereyago]

ORF, or Norfolk International Airport here in VA.
The reason why it is my least favorite : because 1) Southwest doesn't fly out of the airport that is about 8 minutes from my house lol
2 ) I have to go through the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel aka parking lot at certain parts of the day, or drivers are afraid of it, so what should take may be 25-30 minutes really isn't lol.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

La Guardia is probably the worst big airport in the United States. It has nearly the total package of bad.
A dump on the inside, an eyesore on the outside.
Security lines shoe horned in with the result it's long and some of the lounges are outside security check points.
Fragmented terminals.
Delays Galore!!!!
Good luck finding a seat to sit in.
Public transportation in New York? Let every other place in town have it. We don't want any at LaGuardia, That would interfere with our extortion fees i mean parking fees. .
Driving? Have fun paying the parking fee and with the traffic.



Fortunately there is supposed to be a 4 billion dollar complete reconstruction coming.

Come to think of it. All three airports that service New York Metro are bottom 10.

 

[RedAngie]

Miami and Newark are my least favorites.

Philadelphia, my closest airport, has long had a bad reputation, but I think it has improved a lot over the past 10 to 15 years. Now it rates a C+ or B- instead of a D.

There is a closer airport, Wilmington/New Castle County in Delaware, but it currently doesn't have any commercial service. Many airlines have tried, but nothing seems to stick more than a few years. The last to drop out was Frontier about two years ago, when they shifted service to PHL.

 

[longboard55]

The problem with the nice small airports, if there is a problem with a flight, get a hotel. LAX may be a beast but they fly everywhere all the time. They moved a connecting flight thru Chicago on me, and I did not think I had enough time, it was like no problem, we have a flight an hour earlier, and another an hour before that. You will not get that out of SNA. My goal in flying is not comfort or service, all I care about is getting there

 

[bcla]

The problem with the nice small airports, if there is a problem with a flight, get a hotel. LAX may be a beast but they fly everywhere all the time. They moved a connecting flight thru Chicago on me, and I did not think I had enough time, it was like no problem, we have a flight an hour earlier, and another an hour before that. You will not get that out of SNA. My goal in flying is not comfort or service, all I care about is getting there

Depends on where you're flying though. If it's a popular destination for SNA (Oakland, San Francisco, Portland, Phoenix, Seattle) you'll have options. Southwest has about 8 SNA-OAK flights a day. I don't think any airline has that many SNA-ORD, although I'd think they would tend to be fuller.

 

[bcla]

I don't hate San Francisco International Airport, but I don't necessarily recommend it. It's a big airport and somewhat of a mess, but it's not horrible. My biggest worry is that there's often fog year round, and they have a setup where they basically can't do simultaneous runway operations because they can't use visual rules because the parallel runways are spaced 750 feet apart, unlike other airports where it's maybe 2500 feet. Once they have to revert to using one runway at a time, meeting takeoff and landing schedules just falls apart since it's a busy airport.

 

[mmouse37]

We have all three NY area airports all within an hour of us. Out of the three LGA is by far the worst. Even if a flight is cheaper out of LGA I'll pass and go to EWR or if I have to JFK. We fly out of EWR several times a year and I don't mind it at all....I guess because I am so familiar with it. We are flying out of JFK and coming back to EWR in July and then round trip out of JFK in August. I try to only fly out of JFK for international flights. For domestic it is usually EWR.

LGA traffic right now is the biggest reason I won't go near LGA. It is horrible, no other word for it. I think the construction is going to be around for at least another year or so.

MJ

 

[GDUL]

Kansas City, O'Hare, Philadelphia

 

[DaisyJ]

Kansas City

Yeah, this is my vote, too. Weirdest airport I've ever been in.

 

[DawnM]

I have spent time in some dives. Jalaluddin Airport in Indonesia was tiny, and had no air conditioning with horribly hot, muggy weather. I sat for several hours. Then I got on a prop plane to Jakarta in a very old prop plane full of men smoking clove cigarettes.

I haven't thought of that place in a long time. Such memories.

 

[bcla]

Come to think of it, over 30 years ago I took an exotic family trip to China where every part of the trip was done through a tour company. We were assigned a local guide at each stop and one assistant for the entire trip. Some of the airports (I don't even remember exactly all the names) were tiny little things with terminals smaller than your average Greyhound bus station. I have memories of one of these places that was basically one smallish building and only capable of handling one plane at a time. And we were traveling on sad-looking turboprops.

I've made a few visits since then, and even then I remember some smallish airports like Huangshan Airport. It's kind of small, but I guess a lot more modern than the ones I remember from 30 years ago even though it had maybe two or three gates. However, what I most remember about that place is that we were walking out of the terminal and there was a less than impressive looking parking lot where our guide met us.

 

[tinatark]

O'Hare. Employees.

On the other end of the spectrum - my boss has great status with Delta - when he flies into Detroit, a Delta rep meets him at the tarmac in a new Porsche and drives him to his next gate!