Worst Airport You've Been To?

cml387 · 30-04-2015 08:50PM

Sakhalin Island.

The toilets were infested with rats. The security area was patrolled by gigantic ex-soviet soldiers with fixed bayonets.All the announcements were in Swahili. There was a nest of killer bees in the smoking area and the one check in desk had a queue that stretched about eighteen miles. and was manned by Jeremy Beadle.

And the Costa coffee stand refused to stamp my get one free card.

30-04-2015 08:53PM

the evasion_kid wrote: »

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

That Airport is like it's stuck in the 80's or something. Especially the bar and restaurant area...

I miss the old Cork Airport. The fish were great!

Also hate Beauvais Airport. Used to fly in and out of there every few months when I was younger. Big difference to CDG.

Sh1tbag OToole · 30-04-2015 09:10PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

That Airport is like it's stuck in the 80's or something. Especially the bar and restaurant area...

I miss the old Cork Airport. The fish were great!

Also hate Beauvais Airport. Used to fly in and out of there every few months when I was younger. Big difference to CDG.

They should re-open the Cork old terminal, complete with all the arcade games from the early 90's. Those airports are the best

My favourite airports are the ones on Inis Mean and Inis Oirr. They are just like a persons house. I think when you get off the plane sometimes you don't even have to pass through a building. Which is how it should be, no bureaucratic nonsense or sending you past a mile of shops hoping to squeeze a few bob out of you

My name is URL · 30-04-2015 09:16PM

Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris

Chaotic and full of French people

anncoates · 30-04-2015 09:18PM

The subtle niche airport competition is building. Not long before somebody throws in something about a Malvinas or Antarctic makeshift runway.

Sh1tbag OToole · 30-04-2015 09:20PM

anncoates wrote: »

The subtle niche airport competition is building. Not long before somebody throws in something about a Malvinas or Antarctic makeshift runway.

Barra.

TimTim · 30-04-2015 09:22PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris

Chaotic and full of French people

That place is a cesspool and I religiously avoid it. It is also the only EU airport that I've had my Irish passport stamped in...

Adhamh · 30-04-2015 09:28PM

Mumbai is a strange one. A lot of money went into this huge modern place. I was in the country fifteen minutes before a guard tried to scam me - singled me out from a group of people walking through a door only to tell the only foreigner that I can't go in that way and if I want to go to the prepaid taxi counter the driver behind me knows everywhere. Added to this the gun turrets where soldiers glare at you over their sandbags and toilet floors literally plastered in ****, it's not really a place I plan on returning to.

Stormington · 30-04-2015 09:30PM

Lollipops23 wrote: »

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

So you'd say it was not Nice.

Istanbul Ataturk was manky, expensive (€5 for a can of coke) and poorly laid out a few years ago. I'm not sure how it has changed recently but I am in no rush to find out.

joe swanson · 30-04-2015 09:32PM

Izmir - an absolute hole

salmocab · 30-04-2015 09:33PM

CDG the staff seem to actively pursue the french stereotype of being rude and ignorant

JupiterKid · 30-04-2015 09:36PM

Heathrow. Very rude staff, a pain to get a transfer from one terminal to another and a general sense of crapness. That said, it does now have Terminal 5 which is nice. Gatwick is not that great either.

I've never been, but I saw a TV doc on Lagos Airport in Nigeria and it was truly dreadful!

paulie21 · 30-04-2015 09:42PM

Blackpool. Charged us a £10 development fee just to go through to baggage check in. Only restaurant was closed as well

Mister Vain · 30-04-2015 09:44PM

Atlanta. As well as the usual tight security you'd expect in the U.S, its about 12 miles long.

The Backwards Man · 30-04-2015 09:45PM

paulie21 wrote: »

Blackpool. Charged us a £10 development fee just to go through to baggage check in. Only restaurant was closed as well

Every airport you've ever been in your life, even it's just a windsock and a runway, charges you a development fee. It's like a gorilla eating a banana at the zoo. Sometimes you see it, sometimes you don't.

JCX BXC · 30-04-2015 09:50PM

paulie21 wrote: »

Blackpool. Charged us a £10 development fee just to go through to baggage check in. Only restaurant was closed as well

I agree with you, its a cheeky annoying fee that's often missed. Same in Knock airport.

wpd · 30-04-2015 09:50PM

Manchester, locked in a corridor for half an hour with the rest of the flight after arriving from Dublin. It seems there security cameras
cant spot 150 Irish people hiding in a main corridor.

JCX BXC · 30-04-2015 09:54PM

wpd wrote: »

Manchester, locked in a corridor for half an hour with the rest of the flight after arriving from Dublin. It seems there security cameras
cant spot 150 Irish people hiding in a main corridor.

I'd be skeptical to the truth of that post, I have not seen a daily mail article on it

My name is URL · 30-04-2015 09:55PM

salmocab wrote: »

CDG the staff seem to actively pursue the french stereotype of being rude and ignorant

Ask them the simplest of questions and prepare for a rant about how busy the airport is and how shouting at people is the least they should expect. If they spent less time berating and arguing with anyone that dares ask them something they might get some work done.

You'd think they'd be proud of working for one of the world's best known and busiest airports like.. instead of resenting the fact that they do.

I was blown away by the ignorance when I first flew there.. and I'm not the politest of people myself. I just ignore it now and try not to interact with staff.

Honestly, they'd make AH seem more like the UN.

It definitely doesn't help to dispel the stereotype, but not all stereotypes are wrong anyway. The French aren't the most endearing of people at the best of times.

Sh1tbag OToole · 30-04-2015 09:56PM

wpd wrote: »

Manchester, locked in a corridor for half an hour with the rest of the flight after arriving from Dublin. It seems there security cameras
cant spot 150 Irish people hiding in a main corridor.

Ah but those are security cameras, which are outsourced to Gruppe Sechs Ltd. who are the only ones with access, who are the only ones who are allowed to access them according to the contract. The cameras are only allowed to be used for security purposes, by trained security personnel employed by Gruppe Sechs who are only allowed to communicate with other airport staff when a security issue arises.

Want a camera to check the length of the queue? That's another few million for some other company

paulie21 · 30-04-2015 09:57PM

What I meant was you physically couldn't get through without handing them a tenner. It's the obvious screwjobs that are the worst

Luxie · 30-04-2015 09:59PM

Aidric wrote: »

Charleroi. Grim.

Oh yes.

tinpib · 30-04-2015 10:01PM

Lollipops23 wrote: »

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

Yep, have got caught in a massive passport queue in arrivals there alright.

Arrivals in Buenos Aires is a harrowing free for all with security scanning all bags. Huge snakelike queue, lots of intentional/unintentional skipping, shouting and roaring, slow clapping etc.

lily09 · 30-04-2015 10:06PM

LAX
Airport itself is quite nice but the hawkers were unbelievable for hassling you in the queues. Was by myself and felt really intimidated, there was constant tannoy announcements about it.
Bangkok also not a pleasant place to be delayed.

PopePalpatine · 30-04-2015 10:07PM

Bremen, particularly the Ryanair terminal. Standing up in the boarding queue for half an hour sucks ass when you're dealing with a horrendous hangover and the wi-fi is ballachingly slow.

househero · 30-04-2015 10:08PM

thereitisgone wrote: »

Dublin

Dublin is a great airport.

You don't travel enough.

househero · 30-04-2015 10:09PM

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Bremen, particularly the Ryanair terminal. Standing up in the boarding queue for half an hour sucks ass when you're dealing with a horrendous hangover and the wi-fi is ballachingly slow.

I dont get why people stand up when you have an assigned seat now, was your trip before the new changes?

househero · 30-04-2015 10:11PM

Adhamh wrote: »

Mumbai is a strange one. A lot of money went into this huge modern place. I was in the country fifteen minutes before a guard tried to scam me - singled me out from a group of people walking through a door only to tell the only foreigner that I can't go in that way and if I want to go to the prepaid taxi counter the driver behind me knows everywhere. Added to this the gun turrets where soldiers glare at you over their sandbags and toilet floors literally plastered in ****, it's not really a place I plan on returning to.

Most of the money lined the pockets of politicians. You should see chennai's shed, it cost more than Dublin T2!

30-04-2015 10:12PM

the evasion_kid wrote: »

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

Kerry airport is my favourite. But I'm biased.

Never liked Beauvais.

PopePalpatine · 30-04-2015 10:13PM

That area didn't actually have any seats in the boarding queue area, so I was standing around for half an hour with an alcohol-induced stomach ache (which to this day I have been searching for a cure for) feeling extremely irritable and could do nothing as my legs began to cramp up.

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