The worst airport you've ever been in

ancapailldorcha · 03-05-2017 04:26PM

Luton. I mean there are probably worse airports but I thought it was unthinkable that a London airport could be so utterly terrible.

Cloudio9 · 03-05-2017 04:26PM

D0NNELLY wrote: »

Gatwick. Horrible horrible horrible horrible place.

Gatwick is fine. Really efficient security system too.

Worst I've been in is probably Rio de Janeiro. Major airport with one crappy shop and no proper bars, just a few plastic chairs outside kiosks. Ordered a beer and was handed a can

Sue Pa Key Pa · 03-05-2017 04:32PM

Zakynthos Airport. When I was there it was tiny and not anyway near big enough for the numbers going through

Stephen15 · 03-05-2017 04:35PM

I can't say I've been to any airport thats particularly bad an airport is an airport to me queing and waiting is all part of the game.

brownbinman · 03-05-2017 04:39PM

Manila, especially the domestic terminal...100% the worlds worst

ScumLord · 03-05-2017 04:39PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Gatwick is a great airport - never any security queues (you see, you CAN do it if you care enough), passengers from Dublin routed away from immigration control, Wagamama in the terminal building - ie semi decent food at reasonable prices. No idea why anyone would have an issue with it.

I use Gatwick fairly regularly, it's an airport I've spent way too much time in. It's generally fine, especially when you're flying into it. I get the express into London and I'm there in 20 minutes.

Winterlong · 03-05-2017 04:40PM

Another is Bodrum airport. I dont know what is is like now but you used to have to pay 5 pound sterling in cash on arrival. No euros or other currency accepted - had to be sterling.
And then there are a load of hustlers pretending to be from the tour company trying to rob you once you get past baggage control.

Walter H Price · 03-05-2017 04:41PM

Both in France Beauvais an absolute cow shed and CDG just a pure head wreck of an airport to find you way around i think the french staff in both don't help the situation at all , typical rude ars*holes

Jrop · 03-05-2017 04:45PM

Leeds Bradford. Our flight was delayed due to fog. Everything closed at 9pm. We didn't leave til 10.30
Smelly pub carpet reeked of stale booze and sweat

sheroman01 · 03-05-2017 04:46PM

Fes, Morocco. Nice on the outside but once you pass security you only have 1 shop for food/drinks and they do not accept cards and there is no ATM.

ScumLord · 03-05-2017 04:47PM

Aran islands airport was basically a tiny shed in the middle of a field when I went there years ago. The pilot would wait in there doing god knows what until people wanted to go home again.

Sligo is another horrible airport, I don't actually remember what the airport is like, I think it may have been shut when my flight came in. But the runway is pointing out in to the sea and as you're landing all you can see under the plane is ocean, just as you think you're about to crash into the ocean the plane lands on the end of the runway and everything is alright.

callaway92 · 03-05-2017 04:47PM

D0NNELLY wrote: »

Gatwick. Horrible horrible horrible horrible place.

Eponymous wrote: »

Stanstead is pretty awful.

Can't say I agree with these. I find the three big airports in London very good (use Stansted and Gatwick a lot).

thelad95 · 03-05-2017 04:48PM

The funniest thing about the departure Hall I'm in is that the choice of food is either Burger King or an Irish pub and the duty free only sells chocolate and liquor.

uch · 03-05-2017 04:49PM

Dar-es-Salaam, there's pretty much feck all in it

Walter H Price · 03-05-2017 04:50PM

Jrop wrote: »

Leeds Bradford. Our flight was delayed due to fog. Everything closed at 9pm. We didn't leave til 10.30
Smelly pub carpet reeked of stale booze and sweat

To be fair to the airport having been twice the entire of Leeds reeks of stale booze and sweat hahahahaha :P

Laphroaig52 · 03-05-2017 04:50PM

"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."

Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs."
Mr. Douglas Adams about 30 years ago.

Jrop · 03-05-2017 04:51PM

Walter H Price I like Leeds itself but the 'airport' leaves a lot to be desired

Timmyr · 03-05-2017 05:10PM

Kumasi Airport in Ghana, the most corrupt place on earth, everybody wants to be paid

ArnoldJRimmer · 03-05-2017 05:15PM

I absolutely despise Heathrow, but its because of the difficulty of getting between terminals, the fact that they force you to go through security again even its a connecting flight, and the staff seem to lack any form of human decency. Its got good facilities though.

The worst airport I've been in was the domestic airport in Kathmandu. You check in, walk past a security guard and then you;re outside in an area with only a couple of seats until your plane is ready to board. Not even a vending machine, let alone a cafe. Someone was actually looking to board a plane with a live chicken when I was there

http://www.mountainsoftravelphotos.com/Nepal%20-%20Pokhara/Kathmandu%20to%20Pokhara/slides/Kathmandu%20Flight%20To%20Pokhara%2001%20Kathmandu%20Domestic%20Airport%20Check%20In.html

Richard Hillman · 03-05-2017 05:17PM

If you are ever going to Paris Beauvais, don't go through security until you absolutely have to. There is nothing beyond that gate bar a small cafe, a vending machine and a small duty free.

The dodgiest I have ever felt was at the entrance into Istanbul Ataturk. You feel like a sitting duck at the first security screening trying to get into the place. Incidentally, there was a terror attack at that exact entrance a few weeks later.

Billy86 · 03-05-2017 05:30PM

JFK international terminal, beyond a dump and rudest staff on every direction. Newark on the other hand I find very nice, would have thought if anything it would be the other way around.

daveyeh · 03-05-2017 05:33PM

Reus. Especially departures.

The Backwards Man · 03-05-2017 05:36PM

Heathrow is a hangover airport, every time you're going through it you swear never again.

K.Flyer · 03-05-2017 05:58PM

Don't remember the name of the Airport, but it was about 03.00 in the morning for a stupid O'clock internal flight somewhere in the middle of Egypt.
Nobody around to get directions, no electronic displays for directions, nowhere open for a coffee, empty and eerie.
Eventually someone appeared, showed us where to go and we joined others for the same flight.
Little to no security check and in the darkness dragged ourselves and our bags out to this solitary plane sitting on the apron. Bags flung onto the plane and we are all left standing there, with two security gaurds watching us. Then the "crew" arrived, well a pilot and "another", both looking very much the worse for wear from the night before and an airport official. The pilot looked at all of us, looked at the plane, turned, said something to the official and a blazing row started. Security usher all of us onto the plane as these two almost come to blows.
Eventually the pilot got on started up the plane and taxied out to the runway. Revved it up, lurched forward, jammed on and another load of shouting started from the cabin.
Ten more minutes and we have another go at take off, no safety briefing, no cabin crew.
I hope to hell I never end up in that airport or situation again, it had to be the longest hour or so in the air. The relief on peoples faces when we landed said the same.

biddyearley · 03-05-2017 06:04PM

Casablanca.Decaying ****hole. Walked into building from S. American flight to be met with 20 armed soldiers and TV crew in tow, screaming and shouting at us, pulling us aside making us empty our bags, going through absolutely everything. No A/C, 1950s decor, old strip lighting.....dump.

Parchment · 03-05-2017 06:08PM

Cairo airport 25 years ago. I was handed two sheets of toilet paper by an employee to use when i wanted to use the bathroom there.

Its now known as Cairo International Airport -i hope things have improved.

Beyondgone · 03-05-2017 07:18PM

I despise airports, so rate almost every one I have ever passed through as a region of Satan.

For Europe, Beauvais sticks out as worthy of special mention...duuump.. further afield, they're almost all dumps imo. I vaguely like Frankfurt - it's clean, modern and the foods good. Grand canaria is alright because you can smoke and the staff are friendly..

The joys of shyte airports are only eclipsed, for me, by the seventh ring of hell that is Gare Du Nord in Paris.. a turd dropped down on the railway system.

pickarooney · 03-05-2017 07:30PM

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In response to a couple of posts:
Lyon there's a train direct to the city centre from the airport, not sure what else you would want by way of transport links

Gatwick is a great airport - never any security queues (you see, you CAN do it if you care enough), passengers from Dublin routed away from immigration control, Wagamama in the terminal building - ie semi decent food at reasonable prices. No idea why anyone would have an issue with it.

In general, most American airports. Security queues can be ridiculous and they take the 'captive audience' approach to food and drink or at least a lot of them do. London City Airport used to be great but has become more popular and nowadays is more like an extended game of musical chairs - plus the holding pen of course.

That train is the most expensive in Europe and the ****ers actively shut down any bus service that tries to infringe on their monopoly of the route. Mafiosi bastards.

Stansted is the most hateful place I've ever been. Hard to fathom the depths of unlikability of the staff there.

bear1 · 03-05-2017 07:39PM

I honestly can't stand warsaw modlin airport.
Just fcuk all to do and they ferry you onto the runway before the flight has even landed.
Happened to me 3 times and 1 of those was mid winter in a freezing wind.
Can't. ****ing. Stand it.

Radharc na Sleibhte · 03-05-2017 07:54PM

Any airport that facilitates pre-boarding.
ie Leaving me waiting on a staircase or in blaring sun for 35 minutes.

The security staff are especially obnoxious in Dublin. We get it. You do a brilliant and incredibly job. You're our first line of defence. Without you we'd all be dead. But, we're not all terrorists.

The worst airport you've ever been in

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