What’s your favorite or least favorite airport?

Least favorite: Newark, JFK, LGA (renovated part seems nice but still crowded af, no subway connection), LAX Favorite: San Jose, DFW, Phoenix (Because it has a Peet's coffee and I love me some Peet's cold brew fog), Hong Kong (not sure how it is nowadays lol)

Least: Guarulhos Intl in Sao Paulo - enjoy your 3 mile walk to immigration after your 12 hour flight OR a potentially 2+ hour security line on Thurs/Fri nights when departing - your choice, usually both.

Favorite: Bush Intctl when flying United out of E - easiest thing you've ever done hands down and terminal is fresh, bonus points for polaris lounge

Bagram Air Force base. I will also secondHong Kong as a great airport. Abu Dhabi airport too is awesome

Worst: LGA. Small, dingy, impossible to get to and the wait from leaving the gate to taking off can be an hour. The fact that its the worst NYC airport says something. I'll actually argue than Newark is the least bad of the three. (Granted, this is like saying it's the best way to be executed, but still) O'Hare is pretty annoying too, with bad groundside operations. I once had a pilot come on the speaker to promise us that we were not actually driving to Newark, after spending half an hour taxiing (not even waiting to take off)

Best: ATL

Worst: LGA

Best: Changyi Airport in Singapore. Great food with many food courts offering local foods, free computer terminals, massage chairs, sleeping lounges, shower facilities, several bars, in-airport gardens and waterfalls, and it's both close to city center by taxi and metro.

Runner up: Hong Kong HKG - quick and efficient, and you can even check in your luggage and get your boarding pass in the city center, and then take the high speed train to the airport. Your luggage will meet you at your destination.

Worst: Kuala Lumpur with endless queues. You'll likely miss your flight. LGA in NYC. Just .... why? Far from city, expensive to get to, so you just might miss your flight. Old and broken down, and a dis-service to NYC's image really. Newark is not much better. Oakland (OAK) was pretty sketchy as well, if memory serves.

WORST AIRPORTS - any airport in China, especially Beijing. Damn you straight to hell. While the airports are modern and shiny, the airspace is controlled by the Chinese military, which reserves some 80% of the airspace for military use. Coupled with an opressive air regulatory agency, and you really are in trouble. If there is ANY bad weather or delay in an incoming flight, and you might find yourself grounded. I've lost track of how many times I've spent the day in an airplane just sitting on the tarmac waiting for a takeoff that never came. Can't get up to use the toilet, can't get food, crammed between other sweaty and irritated people, just fcking sitting there. Or when I lived in Beijing - damn having to fly from there. Beijing's snow will mean each air trip is a coin toss. A bit of snow or rain, and guess what? You're just going to live in the airport today. Yup, we don't know when we're flying or even IF we're flying. So have a seat, and wait it out. Maybe your 8am flight just became a 10pm flight, or maybe you'll just have to go home and come back tomorrow. Why? Because F you, that's why. You plebe. Enjoy your shiny airport prison beotch.

I also vaguely remember hating Charles De Gaulle airport but I can't remember why. It's been a while. Maybe because every time I tried to use a bit of broken French or ask if they speak English I get eye rolls and snootiness. Might have been something else tho.

Barcelona BCN...always a disaster

the DFW airport is extremely easy to navigate and very straightforward. it's pretty good for being a top 10 airport. My favorite though is probably the DEN airport, but the walk times can be long.

LGA is the worst. LAS is also bad imo.

Buffalo airport makes me want to cry.

Favorite: Burbank Least Favorite: LAX

Best: * Singapore: Clean, well connected, super useful hub in the region, great shopping and food options * Zurich: Super clean and functional, incredibly well connected by train, fastest door-to-gate I've ever had * SFO: Good routes and rather decent infrastructure, driving to the city is less of a pain than expected, so probably my favorite US airport

Worst: * NY LGA: A disgrace for a city like NYC, poorly connected, derelict infrastructure, poor shopping/ food options, everything takes forever, even the connections are bad * London Luton: Wouldn't fly through it again even for dirt cheap routes, really poorly connected and terrible service/ indications inside the airport * Warsaw: Poor infrastructure, terrible service, the loudest announcements every 2 minutes * LAX: Few visits, but bad enough not to make me want to avoid it going forward * Miami: Bad, especially the people, but that's not really surprising...

Fort Lauderdale is pretty bad

Internationally, a lot of the UK airports are brutal. I'm not a fan of Gatwick, Birmingham or Manchester (though i'ts not the worst I've been through). Heathrow is.... well... just what it is.

Arlanda in Stockholm was a very nice airport. Don't have much experience with German outside of Frankfurt (which is, fine, i guess).

Domestically, BOS/BWI/PBI are all generally pretty nice. I cannot stand NYC airports. PHL is absolutely, low key, brutal especially if you land in F39 with a connection anywhere that isn't an F in front of it. MCO (Orlando) is a fucking nightmare - especially if you are a business traveler.

Vegas (Macarran) has a nice airport - Granted I'm so hungover and happy to leave Vegas, it might be clouding my vision.

O'Hare is a nightmare since it's the connection hub for both coasts - weather in recent years has made it even worse. Logistics are OK, if I land in a far away gate I can still (generally) make even tight connections. It's not as spread out as some of the others (ATL, CLT). Food is awful (except publican) and lounge selection is rough except for the massive admirals club.

EWR new terminal C is actually very nice. Yall hating on EWR have not been to Terminal C - the new United terminal.

Singapore, Hong Kong, San Diego

My favorite: Detroit

My least favorite: Newark

Philadelphia is a great airport, but I can’t remember the last time I left there without a delay

Not sure I understand the hate for Newark. The United terminal at Newark is by far the best option in the NYC area. LGA is horrific, avoid at all costs. Driving to JFK seems to always be a traffic disaster.

The Zurich airport is very nice. Avoid Lisbon at all costs if you think you can connect through, once landed at 6am and stood in a 1.5hr immigration line, everyone was missing connections.

Worst - LGA, old wing of Guarulhos, Lambert, Denver (terminals are way too long)

Best - Cincinnati, Detroit

London City airport is always a breeze purely because you don't get the budget airlines there so there's no crowds of tourists going on holiday.

read "airsport" was geared up to talk some shit about aerial acrobatics

Best: RDU, hands down

Dallas Love Field is a hidden gem if you fly Southwest. Security and Checkin happens outdoors and it's relatively quick and painless.

Best:

• London City - super efficient even during rush hour

• Singapore - just amazing in pretty much every way

Worst:

• Bangkok Suvarnabhumi - just a nightmare clusterfuck of people going in and out of Asia. Granted, I haven't been to other Asian hubs like Hong Kong or Beijing but this is a nightmare

• Mexico City - same as above just as applicable to North - South traffic across the Americas

Want to show some love for CLT. It’s much closer to the city / easier to get to than most, and small enough that you’ll never have to walk more than 10 minutes. Plus Bojangles.

Holiday season update: God, Miami Int'l is bad.

Worst - JFK (nothing has to be said)

Budapest Airport - Their security is super anal with lotions and will force you to throw out lotions even if they meet the EU/NA criteria for carry on.

Best: Haven't been at a airport that had shock value.

Tegel airport in Berlin is probably one of the worst I've ever been to in a major Western city.

Echo all the above regarding Singapore being one of the best, place is actually enjoyable to walk through and kill a few hours before a flight.

Worst - LaGuardia and Atlanta Best - Midway and Dallas Love Field

newark is terrible. singapore or seoul are probably the best ones ive been to

Singapore lives up to the hype. genuinely enjoy getting to the airport early with the amenities and security is at the gate making it a breeze

As others have mentioned Singapore comes in easily at #1. Shopping malls, movie theaters, butterfly gardens. 

Doha-Qatar airways is a cut above the rest and their airport and lounges are the same. 

Hong Kong for the sick mountain/water views and truly international crowd. It's fun just seeing where all the planes are going to cities you've never heard

Vancouver really cool how they wove inter regional history and local architecture into the airport

San Diego new and nice and super close to Downtown

Palm Beach the closest you'll ever feel to flying private in a commercial airport

Detroits Delta terminal 

Best: Phoenix, John Wayne, Dallas, San Jose

Worst: LaGuardia, LAX, Denver, O'Hare

Best:

• Charleston, tiny airport with nice amenities, very straightforward to navigate
• John Wayne, again very straightforward and great if you you're flying to Anaheim, Orange County
• San Jose, proximity to Silicon Valley also important here

Worst

• LaGuardia, wow that was bad, but didn't expect it to be that bad
• O'Hare, had no clue where I was going and really damn far from Chicago (compared to other large airports)
• Denver, also really really damn far, and the baggage claim is awful
• LAX, I swear my flight is always delayed or cancelled when I fly here

Laguardia, Newark, JFK, Logan, and CDG have all done me dirty in the past.

I especially hate CDG. I just hate anything that has to do with French air travel. I've been victim to Air France going on strike twice now in my life. One time when I was a kid, my parents and I were going to Greece for my dad's job over the winter for two weeks. We get to Paris for our layover, Air France like fully goes on strike, and the airport staff followed suit. Now everyone is on fucking strike, we weren't able to get a different flight, and we had to go stay in a hotel. Two fucking days later, we get on a Lufthansa flight to some city in Germany (I think it was Frankfurt) and as we are approaching the airport, some jackass hijacked a small plane (nobody on board) and was threating to crash it into some building (maybe the control tower, idk). So we're just up there circling, and eventually the pilot is like "yeah we gotta go somewhere else" but just as he says that, German police talk the guy down and we can land. So now another half day wait ensues for our flight to Greece. Finally we board and take off, didn't get hit by an asteroid or fly into a wormhole or anything lucky for us, and land in Greece, over three days after we should have arrive. And then to top it off, they lost my bags and my dad's. Yay France. I would rather walk somewhere than fly Air France again.

Best that I've been to: Denver, Charlotte, Jackson (Wyoming)

Worst: Tuscon (Arizona), LaGuardia  (NY)

Already mentioned but Miami Int'l Airport. TSA always very slow. Place is dingy/dirty and amenity options are not great. 

Best:

SFO, Phx, Aspen, DFW

Worst:

Miami (by far), JFK, LAX, Denver, Rome, CDG

Travelled to Mumbai in 2013 and let me tell you that was hands down the worst airport experience I have ever had.

Have travelled to 30+ countries and who knows how many cities and would not do that again. 

My favourite airport is hands down the one in my hometown. Has incredible connections for a small airport and you can check in and get in the plan in less than 15 mins

Best airports: Singapore, Dubai and tbh London Heathrow (only T5) is actually quite nice.

Worst airports: London Gatwick. Fuck that airport. Delays every single time and I hate its layout. Milan Bergamo is pretty shit too. Such an awkward layout and if your flight is at a B gate it’ll take hours to get there.