What's your favorite airport ?

postaldoug · May 31, 2004

For me... hands down... that tiny little airport in Colorado Springs. Easiest I ever dealt with, at least back in late 80's.

I did have a scare there once, but it worked out fine. True Story !

I used to smoke pot back then. I was taking my mother to airport, to return home to Ct. Naturally , I wanted to see her off, at the gate. I forgot I had a metal pipe on me (a Proto pipe, to be exact ). I go thru metal detector, damn thing goes off, then I remember I have this in my pocket ! Oh SHIT ! I also had keys and coins. Very fortunately by pulling keys and coins out of pockets, I passed on 2nd try. That scared the PISS out of me ! It would have been very embarassing to not be able to go to gate, and possible arrest.

I'm an athiest, but if there is a GOD, he helped me that day !

I no longer smoke dope, but that's because I outgrew it, at about age 35 or so. I'll never forget that spot I was in !

Doug

Fishhead · May 31, 2004

TOP

Minneapolis(location for movie "AIRPORT")
Vegas(women)
Tampa(upscale)

BOTTOM

Newark(scary)
LA EX(its LA!)
Boston ( bad for baggage)

acw · May 31, 2004

A landing on the old Hong Kong airport in the middle of the city was simply sensational.

TOP
Nice, France

BOTTOM
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (It takes one an hour to get to the city and one only sees unused land where they could have built the airport instead)

TOW · May 31, 2004

TOP

Vegas
London Heathrow
Hong Kong ( new airport ) acw, I agree : the old Hong Kong landing was truly sensational.

Bottom

Amsterdam ( prepare yourself to walk for ages )
Manila
Caracas ( a true nightmare )
Miami ( the most unmannered, rude and unpolite security personnel in the Country )

AskHerman · May 31, 2004

San Diego interational airport.

Ghostballz · May 31, 2004

ATLANTA GEORGIA ROCKS!!!

I love this airport for 2 reasons. First off I am a smoker and they have smoking rooms all over the airport. Next everytime I am landing there is to switch to another plane so what rocks is you can go from terminal a to b to c or whatever with out having to go security check points which is a pain in the ass!!!Atlanta kicks ass!!!

Ghost

Schouest · May 31, 2004

Love VEGAS and ATLANTA

Hate Miami and Boston

Vinny_LC · May 31, 2004

Boston was fine for me

I was in vegas last monday night and didn't see much to write home about

four hour layover and all those annoying slots going off.....i almost went nuts

RobFunk · May 31, 2004

orlando. . .the site of palm trees and mickey mouse plastered everywhere is a refreshing site

MrTanaka · May 31, 2004

Top:
Osaka
Phoenix
Minneapolis (sp?)

Bottom:
San Francisco
Tokyo-Narita
Memphis

Vinny_LC · May 31, 2004

All the airports in Japan were a big disappointment, people there are so rude

WEEKENDALKI · May 31, 2004

lax
huge, but efficient.

Brock Landers · May 31, 2004

Have to agree the Orlando is one good airport, especially when you are coming from colder climates in the winter time, those Palm trees do it for me too.

Chicago Midway has improved significantly over the last few years with a new Terminal..

Want to see a joke of a airport? Fly into Ottawa sometime LOL This is the nation's capital airport???

MrTanaka · May 31, 2004

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Vinny_LC:
All the airports in Japan were a big disappointment, people there are so rude<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'll tell you that a lot of people seem to mistake how Japanese keep to themselves in public for rudeness...cultural difference.

Vinny_LC · May 31, 2004

could be true mr tanaka

i got in an argument with a group of men because I told them they should be helping us fight the terrorists

winkyduck · May 31, 2004

TOP

Long Beach (you can drive right up to the check in point and 5 minutes later be past security the walk is that short).

Orange County, CA (with no traffic - i can get there from home in about 10 minutes. mom/dad fly in/out of there all the time and to make that short drive as opposed to LAX is worth it. dropping off/picking up passenger is easy and ditto if you are flying out. only scary thing is take-off since you have to go straight up at about a 60-degree angle to make the neighbors happy).

Denver (lots of places to hang out at if you have to wait for a plane. the only bad part is it is in the middle of nowhere. if they dropped a nuclear bomb on the airport, the people in downtown denver would find out about it 4 days later - it is thaaaaaaaat far out of humanity).

BOTTOM

LAX (i DETEST this place. traffic sucks all the time and it is a nightmare).

Newark (everything is spaced out so far and if you have to change planes - odds are the 2 gates are on the other side of the airport. what a lousy place).

Charles De Gaulle, Paris (first off - you are in france - so we know the people are going to be rude. add int he fact most people there smell worse than 7 day old garbage left in the sun - and they all smoke - and this place sucks).

FairWarning · May 31, 2004

Any one I am flying into to start vacation (usually LAX). The one I hate is South Bend, meaning I'm home.

greyhound · May 31, 2004

Definitely NOT San Jose, Costa Rica....

Railbird · May 31, 2004

top

Bellingham, Washington
Oakland, California

Worst

Denver, Co - 35 miles from civilization
San Jose, Ca- 2 mile walk to rent car shuttle, and then a 20 minute ride to the rent a cars.

ChiliPalmer · May 31, 2004

Favorites:

Ft.Lauderdale
Tampa
Atlanta
Toronto

Least Favorite:
Charlotte - Huge, picture Atlanta airport minus the train that carries you from concourse to concourse. You have to walk miles it seems and at some points they even have you in the basement walking. Then you get to go outside and walk across the scorching hot pavement and board your plane. Haven't been through it in a while, thankfully. Absolute nightmare.

Honorable mention goes to Chicago O'Hare.

[This message was edited by Chili Palmer on May 31, 2004 at 07:06 PM.]