Worst & Best Airports

[nickwm21]

SFO and Sky Harbor are the two airports where they police that well, traffic cops keep it moving.

SeaTac is atrocious. It literally takes an extra 15min to pick someone up at SEA because people sit and wait and clog up traffic at Alaska arrivals…


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[Rideski]

try parkin' in front of the terminal in the upstates and you will be moved along by teh cops immediately...


fact.

If the cops were eating clam chowder on break, of which variety would it be?

[gravitylover]

I just want somewhere within a mile or two of the airport to stop and wait. It's even tough in the residential neighborhoods near LGA and there aren't any near JFK. You're supposed to pay to park in short term lots.

[m2711c]

If the cops were eating clam chowder on break, of which variety would it be?

upstate folks don't "manhattan" anything...


fact.

[old goat]

I recently picked up the better half from the Charleston airport and thanks to a baggage handler shortage I had to wait curbside for a while till she came out. A full hour later and at points just standing outside the car, not one person asked me to keep it moving from my spot behind some other waiting car. It's not a massive airport like ATL, but it's bigger than most mid-size int'l airports (probably has something to do with Boeing's Dreamliner manufacturing facility attached to it), but it was a really weird feeling just sitting there waiting to get yelled at but never having it happen.

If you need to be yelled my wife can help you out with that.

[gravitylover]

Lol

[Brock Landers]

Doha Airport…nice fuckin airport.

[old goat]

Doha Airport…nice fuckin airport.

That's what Hamas' leadership say flying in and out--you know, the ones hanging out in Qatar while their people get slaughtered.

[Brock Landers]

Haven’t seen any, do they have outfits or uniforms?

[Touring_Sedan]

We're on he way back to SLC. We haven't boarded. My bag is over TN. Apparently they're "expediting" luggage, whatever the fuck that means.

[DBdude]

If the cops were eating clam chowder on break, of which variety would it be?

dude - new england

[DBdude]

That's what Hamas' leadership say flying in and out--you know, the ones hanging out in Qatar while their people get slaughtered.

from the emirate air lines vip lounge with a cocktail

[alpinevibes]

Doha Airport…nice fuckin airport.

Doha is much better to transit through compared to Dubai. Very chill. Flying in Qatar is also pretty nice. We took the 16hr Doha-Seattle flight once (ouch!)

[halliday]

Security line at CLT, yesterday was a nightmare...perhaps not their fault as there a bunch of flights cancelled the night before (for no good reason to this amateur)... By the way when did tsa start asking you to remove all books and magazines? Huh? Yeah, that was a new one.

As CLT is my home airport, it has some redeeming qualities that I like and it's probably good to just connect through, but as a destination or departure city, there have been problems.

1: you will not get your bags for a least 45 minutes. Take a dump, grab a beer or two, then make your way to the claim area. Absolutely no reason to rush. This is true today...

2: good luck getting on a parking shuttle bus. (Granted I think this has improved but)... And this wasn't a singular instance. Wife, 3yo and myself got to CLT after multiple flight delays coming back from a ski trip; 11pm at least . We are parked in the daily deck... Took at least 30 minutes to get a bus...in the meantime the same empty employee bus came by 3 times, as did a number of other busses that picked up no one. Meanwhile 20 plus people waiting for the daily decks bus to stop sat and watched empty bus after empty bus drive by multiple times. That was one instance but certainly not singular as it was bad for a long time. I think it might have improved lately.



=smartyiak;4670295]

I'm in CLT as I type this. I like CLT....when I'm not in a hurry.

[/QUOTE]

Few airports suck harder than Charlotte. CLT sucks the bone.

[jm2e]

Few airports suck harder than Charlotte. CLT sucks the bone.[/QUOTE]

As a transit airport it seems like the main drawback is that I always arrive at the very end of one concourse and depart out of the very end of the farthest concourse. 45 minutes is the minimum acceptable connection time and that’s cutting it close.
Otherwise clean and pleasant enough.


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[The AD]

SeaTac is atrocious. It literally takes an extra 15min to pick someone up at SEA because people sit and wait and clog up traffic at Alaska arrivals…

I agree that it's terrible. Whenever I'm waiting at the curb I have to constantly move because someone will pull in and just sit there, so there's no way I can see my ride or them seeing me.

[abraham]

I agree that it's terrible. Whenever I'm waiting at the curb I have to constantly move because someone will pull in and just sit there, so there's no way I can see my ride or them seeing me.

If I have to do pickup I like going to the light rail station, then crossing 99 on the footbridge. There's a pickup lot there for the airport station. Of course that gets hard with old people, too many bags, etc but it's not that far and it saves time when the normal options are backed up.

[The AD]

If I have to do pickup I like going to the light rail station, then crossing 99 on the footbridge. There's a pickup lot there for the airport station. Of course that gets hard with old people, too many bags, etc but it's not that far and it saves time when the normal options are backed up.

That's a great idea. I'll have to remember it for next time. The airport expressway tends to be a goat rope in general and is best avoided.

[Buzzworthy]

If I have to do pickup I like going to the light rail station, then crossing 99 on the footbridge. There's a pickup lot there for the airport station. Of course that gets hard with old people, too many bags, etc but it's not that far and it saves time when the normal options are backed up.

So just walk out to light rail and go down to a parking lot there? I like that walk after a flight and can tell me ride to go there to wait?

[The AD]

So just walk out to light rail and go down to a parking lot there? I like that walk after a flight and can tell me ride to go there to wait?

Yep, look at the Google street view. There's a bridge that goes over the road by the station and there's a parking lot right there.

[Buzzworthy]

Yep, look at the Google street view. There's a bridge that goes over the road by the station and there's a parking lot right there.

I do. Oh that’s perfect and will make everyone’s life easier. Appreciate that guys.

[BmillsSkier]

This should buff right out:



https://www.11alive.com/article/news...OMhWLnyfpo76jw

[m2711c]

Is that really even a necessary component? seems redundant.

[BmillsSkier]

Right? How many wings does an airplane (*checks news story*) heading to Tokyo need anyway?!?

[The AD]

This is the smaller airplane. It only needed to make it to Louisiana