Worst Airport You've Been To?

JCX BXC · 30-04-2015 08:10PM #1

My personal worst was Beauvais. Jammed to the Max with slow security queues and very unorginised. Airport itself is also very expensive.

Streetwalker · 30-04-2015 08:11PM

Cork.

Do the langers have an airport?

Wang King · 30-04-2015 08:12PM

Madrid, terminal 4, Eta had bombed it a few hours beforehand... Cops with machine guns and itchy trigger fingers does not a happy Wang King make!!

Lollipops23 · 30-04-2015 08:12PM

Nice. It was terribly organised and the staff were awful.

thereitisgone · 30-04-2015 08:12PM

Dublin

Aidric · 30-04-2015 08:12PM

Charleroi. Grim.

RFOLEY1990 · 30-04-2015 08:13PM

Newark,

the only reason being they don't accept cash anywhere, it's all card. really annoying.

billie1b · 30-04-2015 08:13PM

JFK

Caovyn Lineah · 30-04-2015 08:13PM

Carnacalla wrote: »

My personal worst was Beauvais. Jammed to the Max with slow security queues and very unorginised. Airport itself is also very expensive.

I was there a few years ago, a horrible experience. The queue after security was hilarious, it was just a free for all to get out the door and on board.

nathang20 · 30-04-2015 08:14PM

Only happened 2months ago. Schipol! telling us departures from closest BA to then the furthest with BMI...horrendous...If you've been through Amsterdam, you'll know how "huge" the airport is...

Caovyn Lineah · 30-04-2015 08:14PM

RFOLEY1990 wrote: »

Newark,

the only reason being they don't accept cash anywhere, it's all card. really annoying.

I definitely spent the last of my dollars there. I can even remember what I bought.

OldMrBrennan83 · 30-04-2015 08:14PM

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RFOLEY1990 · 30-04-2015 08:15PM

Caovyn Lineah wrote: »

I definitely spent the last of my dollars there. I can even remember what I bought.

when were you there?

I was there in March and it was full of iPads

stehyl15 · 30-04-2015 08:16PM

The standard of wi-fi in Gatwick is terrible and £70 for two the feckin Gatwick Express plus a further £10 for a tube day ticket ,Schonefeld in Berlin isin't great either considering they make you go through two security checks and in Bari Airport they make you show you queue for passport control after security.

o1s1n · 30-04-2015 08:16PM

Manila. I shudder whenever I think about it.

the evasion_kid · 30-04-2015 08:18PM

Kerry airport....they were pushing the plane out onto the runway using a tractor ffs

John Mason · 30-04-2015 08:18PM

Port au Prince in Haiti

flying Sunday morning after day light saving time change. The airport didnt know the hour had changed, and they couldnt figure out if we had missed out flight to Dom Rep. or not

it took 90 minutes arguing with idiot staff members before they would let us on the plane.

totally true unbelievable story

DareGod · 30-04-2015 08:20PM

I can't remember if it was Luton or Stansted. This was back in 2005. I spent a few hours there while waiting on a connecting flight. The place was filthy. Dirt and rubbish anywhere. Was as if it hadn't been swept in weeks. I think was probably Stansted.

francis1978 · 30-04-2015 08:21PM

Dammam, KSA.

Jimbob1977 · 30-04-2015 08:21PM

Smallest airport I've been to.... Gothenburg City (the Ryanair/Easyjet airport).

Converted Air Force Base

Two gates. #1 and #2. Easy to get through.

Most stressful. ... London Heathrow. So many people, lots of traffic, tough to park

DareGod · 30-04-2015 08:22PM

Carnacalla wrote: »

My personal worst was Beauvais. Jammed to the Max with slow security queues and very unorginised. Airport itself is also very expensive.

I've got flights from Beauvais about six or seven times and I completely agree. Totally disorganised place. Expensive and crap too. When it's busy, it's quite the ordeal.

The Backwards Man · 30-04-2015 08:22PM

*Opens threads in anticipation of tales reminiscent of Air America and Good Morning Vietnam. Maybe even Independence Day*

Gets

RFOLEY1990 wrote: »

Newark,

the only reason being they don't accept cash anywhere, it's all card. really annoying.

stehyl15 wrote: »

The standard of wi-fi in Gatwick is terrible and £70 for two the feckin Gatwick Express plus a further £10 for a tube day ticket.

markfinn · 30-04-2015 08:23PM

Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
Ladders for plane boarding, no seats in the entire building. Tons of security checks on incoming foreigners (pre-baggage collection). No security for baggage chucked out on the floor before us laowai were released by security.

I was lucky. My luggage always looks like poverty-stricken refugee crap. Anyone with a nice expensive looking suitcase found themselves without same.

80Km to the city, no usable busses, no taxi ranks or licensed taxis just a never-ending swarm of potential kidnappings.

Antar Bolaeisk · 30-04-2015 08:26PM

francis1978 wrote: »

Dammam, KSA.

I second this, especially that first landing where you haven't a clue what to expect.

Sh1tbag OToole · 30-04-2015 08:35PM

Gatwick

It is a mess, low ceilings, dreary, permanently dilapidated no matter how many millions they pour into the place, claustrophobic, orwellian and ridiculously expensive to park there considering it's out in the rolling hills of the British countryside.

Worst of all are the staff there, in particular the security. I have been to a lot of airports but in Gatwick they are the absolute worst. Rude pig ignorant sh1ts who think they're going to be famous for catching the next Bin Laden.
The last time I was there they gave me a load of hassle over taking out of all things, a dead ordinary TV remote with me. Take anything other than clothes and a phone with you and they'll give you hassle straight away.

These boys actually believe they're doing good for Queen and Country when they're taking jam jars off of old people, they think everyone wants to bomb them. It must be a great feeling for these boys, to be so naive to think that you're saving the world with every jam jar you take from a granny. Power tripping little sh1ts who have been given one slither of authority over people and want to milk it for all it's worth.

Sh1tbag OToole · 30-04-2015 08:37PM

the evasion_kid wrote: »

Kerry airport....they were pushing the plane out onto the runway using a tractor ffs

How is that bad, did the tractor break down and did you miss your connection as a result?

Ruu · 30-04-2015 08:39PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Gatwick

It is a mess, low ceilings, dreary, permanently dilapidated no matter how many millions they pour into the place, claustrophobic, orwellian and ridiculously expensive to park there considering it's out in the rolling hills of the British countryside.

Worst of all are the staff there, in particular the security. I have been to a lot of airports but in Gatwick they are the absolute worst. Rude pig ignorant sh1ts who think they're going to be famous for catching the next Bin Laden.
The last time I was there they gave me a load of hassle over taking out of all things, a dead ordinary TV remote with me. Take anything other than clothes and a phone with you and they'll give you hassle straight away.

These boys actually believe they're doing good for Queen and Country when they're taking jam jars off of old people, they think everyone wants to bomb them. It must be a great feeling for these boys, to be so naive to think that you're saving the world with every jam jar you take from a granny. Power tripping little sh1ts who have been given one slither of authority over people and want to milk it for all it's worth.

Hah! Chris O' Dowd tweeted this earlier this week!

Thanks Gatwick security! Some might think body-searching a baby and binning his bottle was over zealous and weird, but not me!’

the evasion_kid · 30-04-2015 08:40PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

How is that bad, did the tractor break down and did you miss your connection as a result?

I take it you're from kerry

G_R · 30-04-2015 08:42PM

Wouldn't be a massive fan of Belfast International - my main gripe being that it's nowhere near fucking Belfast!

nibtrix · 30-04-2015 08:43PM

Kathmandu. Went through 6 security queues including 2 extremely personal pat-downs. Had carry on bags manually checked twice. Had to queue for ages while they loaded 15-20 people onto a bus, moved them 100 metres across the tarmac and then wait for the bus to circle back around for the next 20.

Very expensive shop and cafe. Not really anywhere to sit. Flights were over an hour late taking off because of all the security checks.

I feel bad giving out about Kathmandu at the moment...

bnt · 30-04-2015 08:43PM

There are different kinds of bad, in my experience:
- worst airport to try to catch a plane: the old Bangalore airport. Wasn't even sure if I was getting on the right plane, and they managed to over-board it.
- worst airport for transfers: Heathrow.
- worst atmosphere: Pearson Intl. Toronto
- worst airport design: Paris CDG
- worst connections: Jan Smuts O.R. Tambo, Johannesburg.

PS re Gatwick: that might be my pick for overall Badness, but I see many others have already trashed it.

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