Gardermoen - Oslo efficienct clean never had a significant delay + excellent express train into Oslo
Which ones do you like?
Melbourne - mostly due to familiarity and you can get from Domestic to International inside.
Manchester International nice and easy
Orkney. Fabulous. The BA staff run it with the same professional, big company approach you might find at Heathrow terminal 5, whereas in fact it little more than a bus shelter at the side of a very blowy and cold runway. Marvellous.
JFK - It feels like a BIG IDEA.
Denver - It's very space-age
Edinburgh - I had to spend many hours there over the course of a year some time ago, and it was about as comfortable a place as you could expect from an airport.
Kerry airport - they know my name!
Prestwick, as it means I'm 10 mins walk from home. I hate airports, bus stations for the self important.
All airports are just glorified bus stations, with (thankfully) a bar, and the experience of passing through them is unremittingly hellish. Which is why the only thing its rational to do is [url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/airport-pubs-hailed-as-best-bit-of-going-on-holiday-20170414126012 ]numb the experience with alcohol[/url]
No such thing. There just a transport hub to get your plane. The stupidity some things do inside is astounding.
Not that bad...
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Though the fillet was a little overdone and the beer selection wasn't the best and it was LA
Bus stations are not places you would spend 2-4hrs, some places manage to make it easy to get through and comfortable to wait in.
Bus stations are not places you would spend 2-4hrs
Neither are airports if you had a choice.
Its a bus stop with delusions of grandeur. Apart from Liverpool airport which actually feels like just a bus stop
None immediately spring to mind. Manchester is OK generally I guess. Queenstown, NZ is very picturesque but it's hardly a place you'd want to spend much time.
Singapore was great. If you remember your swimmers you can use the pool while waiting for a connecting flight.
Nothing better than a swim, shower and change of clothes between flights
Nothing better than a swim, shower and change of clothes between flights
5 pints of Stella?
Edinburgh +1 because it's my home airport and really quite good. Was better before they put security in the shed though.
I used to like Stansted before they turned it into a walk through shopping centre 😈
Most things are better than 5 pints of Stella.
Singapore was actually really pleasant, nice place to sit and hang out.
Singapore the only decent one I can think of I've been too. Really nice.
HKG.
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Mainly for The Pier F, but also for the Airport Express and in town check in.
Bozeman.
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Ski lodge meets airport.
Changi is excellent, especially now the new BA lounge is open. Frankfurt is ruthlessly efficient.
T5 gets a bad rap, but I find it's superb.
Stornoway
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "as pretty as an airport". Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (...) and the architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.
They have sought to highlight the tiredness and crossness motif with brutal shapes and nerve jangling colours, to make effortless the business of separating the traveller from his or her luggage or loved ones, to confuse the traveller with arrows that appear to point at the windows, distant tie racks, or the current position of the Ursa Minor in the night sky, and wherever possible to expose the plumbing on the grounds that it is functional, and conceal the location of the departure gates, presumably on the grounds that they are not".
Palm Spring - almost all open air. Sit outside in the sunshine next to departures gate surrounded by glass wall. Look over a the Air Force museum planes taxi-Ing about. Umbrellas for the 2-3days rain per year.
CFH - that will be the first lounge in T5.
I would say in the defense of some in here airports are vastly different places once your FF card opens a few more doors, getting out of the noise and stress is much better, getting through check in quickly and smoothly helps along with being practiced in things like luggage weights makes things less stressful
I would say in the defense of some in here airports are vastly different places once you're drunk [s]your FF card opens a few more doors, getting out of the noise and stress is much better, getting through check in quickly and smoothly helps along with being practiced in things like luggage weights[/s] the seventh pint of Stella makes things less stressful
If your highlight is stella and a gregs then you should be easy to placate...
I can't remember which one but annoyingly one of the US airports had all the bars shut on transferring through. Might have been a Sunday though more likely a Saturday. Wasn't out of hours either. Made it a much more dull place.
Anyway, of US airports I've done (a dozen or so), Denver is the more interesting one. SLC I know very well having been there so many times, especially with multiple trips to baggage reclaim when stuff went AWOL.
I like US airports in a way in that they're casual places. Not rushed. Often out in middle of nowhere but nicely connected by roads and transport. They don't have tonnes of tatty shops, but usually nice bars. That said do have to be careful with what's before / after security. Find Europe is worse for that though. Thinking must be some stuff through security and then find nothing and sat there for hours with nothing to do.
SLC is getting a big facelift - well entire new terminal seems like it's now a massive hub probably to accommodate the massive mormon welcome home parties
[i] Thinking must be some stuff through security and then find nothing and sat there for hours with nothing to do.[/i]
Similarly the first time I ever flew, I was under the misguided impression that there was "Duty Free" at both ends of the flight.
There wasn't.
Guess SLC is upgrading the international bit now it's got direct flights from UK etc.
Yeah I guess it's on the line where you can one hop Europe.
You know they're just big sheds to park planes outside, right? They only differ from bus stations as there's slightly less chance someone has just had a piss in one of the stairwells
Did they take your crayons off you last time binners? 😉
Singapore is really nice in there
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A few years ago I renewed a First Aid at work certificate at Bristol Airport Fire and Rescue.
On the course were a number of airport staff, they had both and arrogance and a sense of privilege for working at an airport. Very strange.
What was even stranger still was when they told me about the people who work there FOR NOTHING! Just for the privilege!
[url= https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/about-us/careers/volunteer-programme ]https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/about-us/careers/volunteer-programme[/url]
They also got very upset when I told them I thought Bristol was one of the worst airports in the UK.
You know they're just big sheds to park planes outside, right? They only differ from bus stations as there's slightly less chance someone has just had a piss in one of the stairwells
I beg to differ.
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Oh, and the noodle bar at HKG.....
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CFH - that will be the first lounge in T5.
The fWing and fLounge do make it easier, that's true. But there's plenty of security to speed things along, food options, seating, charging, WiFi, etc.
Did you have a piss in the stairwell then Flashy? 😀
Nah. I just go in the shower.
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Saves water. I'm all about saving the polar bears, you see.
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Leeds Bradford dreams of one day being referred to as a bus shelter...
Robin Hood airport. Because Vulcan
Biggin hill airport because Spitfire
SEN, Southend it's just so easy.
I like Southampton. 10 min from the house. Small simple affair. No dramatics.
I liked T5 initially, probably because it was space age compared to the rest of deathrow, but apart from very quick check in, it's a bit meh.
SOU is very pleasant. Excellent local beer in the lounge, which does rather feel like a doctor's waiting room. With good beer. 🙂
Cardiff, it's small, there's very little "unique shopping opportunities" and customs / immigration seems to be part-time so it's usually a quick process.
But all that's secondary to the fact it's 30 mins from my house so I don't have to spend 3 hours driving to the South East just to spend 2 hours waiting around to even start traveling.
I still don't know how Heathrow gets away with it - the whole country is forced to go there to fly (most of the time) usually passing a few 'regional' airports on the way - no one wants to, Heathrows ONLY redeeming feature is "not as bad as Gatwick" (Gatwicks btw is "could be worse, could be Luton" if you're wondering) and then they have the gall to say "we're so popular, we need a 3rd runway".
Cork cos it means i am home.
I like EGHI because you can have a beer and actually look at the planes. I thought they were all green*..... It's when I see them, that I realise why they're so flicking slow!
Wellington NZ - can't tell you what it was like but landing was so sketchy I was glad to be there.
HK Airport for me as I can leave my apartment and be airside in 25 minutes.
Singapore's not bad for a stop-over but I think the sports bar in T1 must be the most expensive beer in Asia, if not the world, its something like 12GBP!
Zurich.
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Rarotonga is quite cool too..
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Any airport that has open balconies overlooking jets is good enough for me.
Few and far between nowadays sadly but Gatwick used to have an open roof deck right in amongst the noise and smell and Jo'burg had balconies that where in line with the cockpit windscreens of 747's.
Bliss to a teenager 🙂
In the UK, London City or Edinburgh
In Europe, Zurich, or Venice Marco Polo
In the US, Jackson Hole. DFW isn't bad though. I cannot understand how BA tolerate JFK T7 being so shitty.
MME 😀
Ivalo, Finland. A tiny place with fantastic reindeer pie. You can see the door out to the plane from the check-in desk.
Hong Kong is nice, especially as they have a relaxation room away from the gates which do 30 min massages for $25.
Any airport that has open balconies overlooking jets is good enough for me.
About the only redeeming feature of ATL!
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And Swee****er 420 on tap....
Of the frequently visited ones my favourite is Schiphol.
Doha is completely different if you go from the squalour of the hoi pilloi area to the business lounge.
The OP's fave Oslo is nice and clean but the smallest snack will cost you a mint and every transfer seems to involve a massive trek.
[b]the hoi[/b] pilloi
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Airports you Like
Dubai coz I can shop and see weird people. 😆
Brunei airport coz I can walk out to the nearest food stalk for good traditional food.
Oh ya Royal Brunei Airline is amongst the best airline in the world. I would fly them but they only fly from Heathrow.
KLIA coz it just so South East Asia ...
Borneo airport coz I am home ... 🙂
the hoi pilloi
Yeah, but writing 'the pilloi area' looked weird 🙂
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I have been in way too many airports, agreed on most being ugly, Heathrow being the most unpleasant I can think of. Some are spectacular, Wellington, Madrid, Singapore. some down right weird. All are dramatically improved with business class lounges. My favourites are now the small ones though some of those are worse than bus stations. Little airfields are great, White Waltham, Oaksey Park, Wickenby, quite a few others..