Worst Airport in America?

[thekunk07]

maybe not aesthetically, but the san jose airport offers a pretty good experience and has a good bar.

 

[gdl203]

Talking about airport food, Reagan has a Five Guys, the primary reason why it could never be the worst airport.

 

[M. Bardamu]

Originally Posted by thekunk07

maybe not aesthetically, but the san jose airport offers a pretty good experience and has a good bar.

San Jose is pretty fugly and low-tech...didn't visit the bar due to head-pounding hangover.

Columbus is sad, Philly is OK (neat kid's play area for those travelling with rugrats), DC (Dulles?) is crazy busy.

EDIT: Denver is actually quite beautiful if you step outside at sunset...

 

[thekunk07]

hartsfield-jackson is pretty bad, as is the city it inhabits

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by Ambulance Chaser

Dulles, although that it is primarily due to the "people mover" and lack of metrorail access, both of which will be resolved sometime in the future.
I've only been to Dulles once and it was pretty blah. Reagan was very quick and easy though...and I met Jim Lehrer there!

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by RJman

However, the fact there is easy RER access (direct to my apartment, in fact) was a major advantage over most American airports.
RER access would be great ... any American airport to Paris in minutes ... I'd go for that. Sure beats the heck out of an 11+ hour Air France flight.

But as for American airports ... if National is going to be called Regan ... I move that we change Dulles to Johnson, Carter, Clinton or Obama!

 

[JonHecht]

If I recall correctly, Dallas had a Brooks Brothers and a ton of good food.

 

[Manton]

San Jose has three terminals now. The original one is from the late '60s, early '70s. It is terrible. The second one is from the mid-'80s. It is OK, but too cramped. They have to use those line-up mazes everwhere because the building is essetially too narrow. The latest one was just completed and it is quite nice.

Oakland is a very bad airport.

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by Connemara

Reagan was very quick and easy though...and I met Jim Lehrer there!
I accidently sat next to George Schultz at Narita ... he looked up just long enough to say, "I really don't want to talk." I responded, "You're doing a good job of it given that you don't want to."

 

[Connemara]

Columbus has some good bars, and a Brooks Brothers.

 

[shoreman1782]

Originally Posted by gdl203

Talking about airport food, Reagan has a Five Guys, the primary reason why it could never be the worst airport.

Thx for reminding me, now I have something to look forward to this evening.

 

[Dashaansafin]

Cleveland. **** Cleveland airport. 3 overnight stays there with no compensation. Ridiculous

 

[romafan]

Don't fly very much, but I always like 'little' airports (2-3 gates). Montana's got a bunch. Portland, ME is not bad. Hate big ones. There's one in the SW (Albequerque?) where you have to do this major transfer to get to the rental cars

- I imagine there are others are like it.

 

[Aaron]

Newark > JFK. I've never had trouble getting into Manhattan from Newark. Always takes forever at JFK. Where are the nice terminals at JFK? Every one I've been in makes Kilimanjaro International look like a BA lounge.

Who designed LAX and Logan btw? Did they actually know that an airport is supposed to move people rapidly through a given space?

Expanding the topic a bit if we're talking North America in general I actually don't mind YVR (Vancouver) and YYZ (Toronto).

 

[Dashaansafin]

Traffic to JFK is just terrible. Newark is SO much better.