Actually, you know what? Let’s stop complaining for a second. QT this with a GOOD airport. Defend that title as much or as little as you like. But let’s hear about airports that don’t suck.
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IMO, Louisville, Reagan and the new Salt Lake are good airports.
aug 13, 2025, 6:20 pm • 70 0 • view
haven't been to SLC but DCP is A+ and Louisville was pretty good the one time I went
aug 13, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 0 • view
DCA is rock solid, compact and efficient. Compare it to the desolate sprawl of (shudder) Dulles
aug 13, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Was more efficient when they were still doing security by terminal.
aug 17, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Louisville is clutch bc it's right in the middle of the city
aug 13, 2025, 6:43 pm • 1 0 • view
I came here to say DCA, although most of that is because it was two metro stops from my brother's apartment when I first used it
aug 13, 2025, 7:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Louisville is fine, but the dining options are truly terrible.
aug 13, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
And Lexington is even better. Easy in. Easy out. And 30 minutes free parking!
aug 13, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
National was a good airport, back before TSA decided it was too convenient.
aug 17, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I unironically love National
aug 13, 2025, 6:22 pm • 9 0 • view
Reagan is good for the same reason London City is: they’re super convenient to get to, get out of, and navigate within.
aug 14, 2025, 10:01 am • 0 0 • view
wtf is Reagan?
aug 13, 2025, 8:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Thanks for the SLC love! My fav two are Schipol and Haneda, with an honorable mention to the death-defying beach landing on St. Barts.
aug 13, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
As a local, Louisville is fine but the lack of food options beyond security sort of sucks
aug 13, 2025, 6:24 pm • 2 0 • view
SDF is much better than people think. Decent flight availability, easy access & parking, security is efficient. Could use more food options past security, but I'm glad to have it as my home airport. Still miss AUS, though.
aug 13, 2025, 8:31 pm • 1 0 • view
What the hell is a Reagan airport
aug 13, 2025, 7:04 pm • 9 0 • view
It's what outsiders use to tell us they're outsiders. Like people who "correct" new names for Army bases.
aug 13, 2025, 8:08 pm • 2 0 • view
To be honest, I really liked the old SLC. The way it segmented itself out you could really explore.
aug 13, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I mostly liked the old airport from the inside. My understanding is that the old layout was bad for plane taxiing throughput, so whenever I'm getting sweaty on the long walk to the new Terminal 2 I console myself with knowing that it's better on the outside.
aug 13, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
True fans call rEaGaN “National”
aug 16, 2025, 12:40 am • 0 0 • view
ALSO: Pullman WA is a great airport because it has a canned cheese vending machine
aug 13, 2025, 6:22 pm • 129 2 • view
Hahahaha
aug 14, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
😀😃😀😅🤣
aug 14, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
I went through that airport so often in grad school yet never took advantage of this. Unfortunate.
aug 13, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Wait, what?!
aug 13, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Milwaukee has a vending machine where you can buy various types of cheese vending machines
aug 14, 2025, 10:57 am • 3 0 • view
It’s in concourse A
aug 17, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
Cougar Gold ftw!!
aug 13, 2025, 6:28 pm • 17 0 • view
wait I’m sorry there’s a vending machine for Cougar Gold I’m sorry is this…is this hope I’m feeling for the human species? that can’t be right, not this close to football season
aug 13, 2025, 6:53 pm • 28 0 • view
Yes, I've seen it with my own eyes! Of course you can get it for $10 cheaper at Ferdinand's
aug 13, 2025, 7:03 pm • 32 1 • view
40 dollars seems a bit excessive for canned cheese
aug 14, 2025, 12:12 pm • 0 0 • view
That is the last minute airport price. It is $30 at the creamery on campus. They are 30 oz cans so almost 2 lbs. And it is, in fact, very premium cheddar that has won numerous awards. Here is Bon Appetit's review: www.bonappetit.com/story/cougar...
aug 14, 2025, 3:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Looks impressive indeed!!!
aug 14, 2025, 6:16 pm • 0 0 • view
And America's Test Kitchen: www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/636... There is a reason grabbing cans of Cougar Gold on your way out of Pullman is a WSU tradition. We give it to family as Christmas gifts.
aug 14, 2025, 3:10 pm • 4 0 • view
That’s not a terrible deal tho!
aug 13, 2025, 7:46 pm • 1 0 • view
The $10 surcharge is in lieu of having to pay to check a bag tho.
aug 13, 2025, 7:30 pm • 16 0 • view
I flew into Pullman once in a 4 seater prop plane. Rented a car at the counter with 20 bucks cash. Didn't have to show ID. 73 New Yorker.
aug 14, 2025, 4:54 am • 5 0 • view
Isn't that a Roger Miller song?
aug 14, 2025, 4:41 pm • 4 0 • view
It truly is one of the best cheddars in the U.S.
aug 17, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Canned what the fuck now??? 😱
aug 13, 2025, 7:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Cougar Gold! Amazing cheese that my aunt in Florida requests for Christmas.
aug 13, 2025, 7:07 pm • 4 0 • view
I’m going to have to google this. But why is it in a can??
aug 13, 2025, 7:21 pm • 1 0 • view
US military funded WA state Univ to figure out how to make shelf-stable cheese to send with troops. Canned cheese always went rancid otherwise. They did it by adding a secondary culture that outcompetes bad stuff & the resulting cheese is really really good—WA chefs all bonkers over it.
aug 13, 2025, 7:48 pm • 6 0 • view
That’s super interesting!! Unlikely I’ll ever get to try it here in France, but maybe one day my OH will get his hands on some in the US
aug 13, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
You can order it online thru the university (which still makes it in their ag program—each box says which kids packed it 😭❤️), tho I’m not sure if they ship internationally. I bought it for my extended fam one year for New Years and several folks are still buying more when they run out.
aug 13, 2025, 7:56 pm • 4 0 • view
It’s got the crystals of a really nice aged cheese. Some chefs like to store the cans in their fridge (the cheese continues to age) for several years.
aug 13, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Love that crystal crunch! I’m originally from England so love a good strong cheddar
aug 13, 2025, 7:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Because it ships and stores remarkably well that way. IIRC it was originally developed around WWII as the need for canned goods increased.
aug 13, 2025, 7:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Any airport with a Cougar Gold vending machine automatically gets a spot on a good list. Unless it’s in South Dakota, even that can’t make up for you unfortunately being in South Dakota
aug 13, 2025, 8:11 pm • 6 0 • view
Go Cougs!
aug 13, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view
What????
aug 14, 2025, 10:36 am • 0 0 • view
Big fan of regional airports where everything is within a very short walk so you don’t need a bus or train or conveyor belt to get from the counter to your plane or from your plane to baggage claim.
aug 13, 2025, 7:23 pm • 9 0 • view
Yes! Worcester airport ORH. Parking is $7 per day and you park literally next to the terminal. Like you’re at the mall. No shuttles, no bridge to central parking. You’re just….there.
aug 14, 2025, 12:42 am • 1 0 • view
London City airport is the best if you get a chance. Only for short haul but it’s short light rail trip from the city.
aug 13, 2025, 7:47 pm • 4 0 • view
Came here to say this. It's also pleasingly small, so no shuttle to the gate or stress about finding it; last time I flew from there, arrival to my gate was 10 minutes, including security.
aug 14, 2025, 10:32 am • 0 0 • view
Literally one hour from my sofa to the airport gate. It’s like I’m catching my private jet.
aug 14, 2025, 10:37 am • 0 0 • view
Mwah - absolutely delightful.
aug 14, 2025, 10:40 am • 0 0 • view
@boburell.bsky.social
aug 13, 2025, 6:49 pm • 1 0 • view
I am agnostic on the Pullman Airport because I have never been there, but Go Cougs.
aug 13, 2025, 6:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Indy is great.
aug 13, 2025, 6:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Its National.
aug 13, 2025, 6:30 pm • 25 0 • view
I haven't flown in/out of National since before 9/11, so I don't know how much adding security messed it up, and it's still annoying that Metro is across the street rather than directly inside because that would've messed up Congressional parking, but when I did, it was an airport that Just Works.
aug 13, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
(Of course, National seemed like a great airport partly in contrast to Dulles, which Just Didn't Work back then, at least for doing anything in DC itself where you needed to access public transit, even if you could voucher ridiculous taxi fares.)
aug 13, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
DCA is fine too. Never Reagan.
aug 13, 2025, 6:46 pm • 22 0 • view
DCA was better back before TSA decided it was too convenient and too efficient.
aug 17, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
I still can't believe they named an airport after the guy who ruined American air travel. Like naming a hospital after cancer
aug 13, 2025, 6:52 pm • 14 0 • view
DCA also removed water fountains from the main terminal, so that takes it down at least 100 points.
aug 13, 2025, 7:28 pm • 1 0 • view
When?
aug 13, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Last month i went through South security and had to go all the way to like B12 to fill a bottle. I'll never buy anything from a vendor at that airport again. Truly insane policy change.
aug 13, 2025, 7:33 pm • 2 0 • view
They also stuck WMATA with an unfunded mandate to update all the signage referencing the airport, so even that Trump Train/WMAGA bullshit is a derivate Reagan idea.
aug 13, 2025, 6:56 pm • 2 0 • view
National is indeed amazing and every day we lament the imposition of that racist, homophobic scumbag's name, who laughed while murdering people with AIDS. And lots of other people.
aug 13, 2025, 8:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Ahem, National. Always National never Reagan. National.
aug 13, 2025, 7:46 pm • 14 0 • view
I would reply to this tweet, but im Salt Lake Airport walking to catch a flight, so i should be at my gate in 7 years.
aug 13, 2025, 9:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Salt Lake isn’t good if you’re flying United.
aug 13, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I was really impressed with SLC's airport when I flew through there last year. Lots of good dining options within, and the design is big and breezy.
aug 13, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s very roomy but bad for families or elderly because the walking distances are massive and they have huge gaps between people movers so areas with shops don’t get skipped. Security is good and curbs really good. I’m happy to get steps in so I like it
aug 13, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Louisville is pretty good
aug 13, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Indianapolis is decent.
aug 14, 2025, 9:58 am • 0 0 • view
The Harvey Milk Terminal in SFO
aug 14, 2025, 6:49 pm • 2 0 • view
portland ME, you get in and out of there so damn easy
aug 13, 2025, 6:24 pm • 21 0 • view
Yup. Clean, well laid-out, you pretty much zip through I just wish long-term parking were a bit cheaper
aug 13, 2025, 6:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Ahhhh that's something I've never had to do, that does suck.
aug 13, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Have you tried the credit card lot? The shuttle is wicked easy and frequent, stops at your car (especially in dark winter hours!) and is like half the price for a few extra minutes to get door to door. Not covered though so beware of snowstorms during your trip!
aug 14, 2025, 1:10 am • 2 0 • view
Also, agreed on PWM being a lovely easy airport 😊
aug 14, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
Columbia SC is great for the same reason
aug 13, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Adding to the chorus of correct people - PDX is hands down the best airport in the US
aug 13, 2025, 9:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Ok, had to track down your post because I just spent 5 hours @ OAK and the time flew by! Love love love this airport, and especially there are no monitors with Kkkristy Noem yammering in fasch.
aug 19, 2025, 5:40 am • 0 0 • view
MEM Rock solid art collection great music great food and every gate seat has a charging port. If you're at the gate, you're leaving so also that means you didn't die while you were there. Hope you had a blast! (Hometown blues 😿)
aug 13, 2025, 6:51 pm • 3 0 • view
YES MEM rocks
aug 14, 2025, 1:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Paris Charles de Gaulle terminal 1 that was renovated for the Olympics. The most beautiful airport I have ever seen. Leather couches and art deco.
aug 14, 2025, 10:11 am • 7 0 • view
Milwaukee (MKE) is easy in and easy out. It is what Kansas City (MCI) used to be.
aug 13, 2025, 7:45 pm • 2 0 • view
MSP hands down, but a huge shout-out to LAS employees for how they handled all of us during Hillary.
aug 14, 2025, 1:00 am • 1 0 • view
Pdx
aug 13, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
DIA in Denver has sparkly floors.
aug 14, 2025, 1:42 pm • 2 0 • view
With fossils. But parts of DIA need serious upgrades. Hence the constant construction. I’ve never been on the trains that I didn’t feel like a sardine
aug 14, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Lands End. Has a six wheeled land rover and let me go in the control tower.
aug 14, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
IAD, gorgeous mid-century design and they move people mostly well.
aug 13, 2025, 7:24 pm • 2 0 • view
TPA. Easy, fast, clean.
aug 14, 2025, 10:18 am • 1 0 • view
Hong Kong. Super efficient.
aug 14, 2025, 11:21 am • 0 0 • view
Changi. Id live there. It has a swimming pool and a butterfly garden.
aug 14, 2025, 6:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Rurrenabaque airport in Bolivia. Mad as a box of frogs - same guy does the luggage, check in and keeping the runway free from animals
aug 14, 2025, 11:37 am • 1 0 • view
They might have made a proper runway since my visit though
aug 14, 2025, 11:39 am • 0 0 • view
Airlie Beach in Queensland was like that c 2003. The same shack was arrivals, departures and customs. I hope it hasn’t grown up.
aug 14, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
MKE is good but for a sad reason (it's a breeze to get through and there's plenty of space because Midwest Express died and NWA killed it as a mini-hub) It has a great used bookstore!
aug 13, 2025, 7:02 pm • 14 0 • view
Gods, I miss Midwest Express. The best care in the air, indeed!
aug 14, 2025, 3:02 am • 0 0 • view
RIP Midwest Express MKE is still great to fly thru tho
aug 13, 2025, 7:06 pm • 10 0 • view
it was too beautiful for this world
aug 13, 2025, 7:09 pm • 8 0 • view
Pour out a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie for Midwest Express.
aug 13, 2025, 7:40 pm • 12 0 • view
one of those things the younger folk will never fucking believe but my god were midwest express warm cookies on flights to florida a key memory of my childhood
aug 13, 2025, 8:41 pm • 5 0 • view
Yeah, my kids are excited when United gives them a prepackaged stroopwafel cookie. Don't get me wrong -- those are really good. But nothing will ever compare to the 30 minutes where you could smell of those cookies baking in the back of the plane.
aug 13, 2025, 8:48 pm • 1 0 • view
And sparkling wine!
aug 13, 2025, 8:49 pm • 1 0 • view
I think I was 18 or 19 the last time I flew Midwest, so I clearly never got the full experience.
aug 13, 2025, 8:50 pm • 1 0 • view
“ALL FIRST CLASS SEATS” 😍😍😍
aug 13, 2025, 9:31 pm • 3 0 • view
I had my last legitimately tasty in-flight meal on a Midwest Express flight. I'm thinking it was summer 2001.
aug 14, 2025, 1:32 am • 1 0 • view
I've never had one of those, but I'm not surprised Midwest Express had them. I miss all the direct flights from Omaha. I remember going to PHL and DCA in my teens with no layover. It was an amazing thing.
aug 14, 2025, 1:35 am • 1 0 • view
Wikipedia says that Midwest Express switched their A+ meal service over to a food-for-purchase model in a post-Sept 11 cost-cutting move. Can't blame you for missing their direct flights!
aug 14, 2025, 1:40 am • 1 0 • view
Midwest Express was awesome!
aug 13, 2025, 7:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Recombobulation area!!!
aug 13, 2025, 7:35 pm • 0 0 • view
LOVE that bookstore in MKE
aug 13, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Laramie and Missoula, though they say in Wyoming, whether you go to heaven or hell after death it'll be routed through Denver.
aug 14, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m a fan of the Madrid airport. They have customs down to a science and good lounges.
aug 13, 2025, 11:31 pm • 1 0 • view
My daughter swears by La Guardia since they fixed it up. I always liked SFO, myself. JFK is the worst.
aug 13, 2025, 9:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Budapest airport in Hungary is fantastically efficient. It's possible to get off a plane and be on a bus or in a taxi 15 mins later. Unlike London Heathrow which is just awful on every level.
aug 14, 2025, 11:39 am • 2 0 • view
Major city: Indianapolis Regional: Reno
aug 13, 2025, 6:27 pm • 7 0 • view
Reno had therapy corgis last time I was there. It was wonderful.
aug 13, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
RNO is tremendous in terms of getting in and out.
aug 13, 2025, 6:55 pm • 2 0 • view
That takeoff 😬😬😬
aug 13, 2025, 7:15 pm • 3 0 • view
RNO is popular for airline sim training because of the altitude and terrain for single engine emergencies.
aug 14, 2025, 4:34 am • 2 0 • view
The Sunport in Albuquerque is pretty decent. Easy to navigate, never too far from your gate, cozy leather chairs, and the easy availability of breakfast burritos Breaking Bad aficionados will recognize the arrivals lanes (where WW faked a visit to his mom, and Hank cancels a trip to El Paso)
aug 13, 2025, 6:52 pm • 9 0 • view
Weird* how no one is saying Denver. *Not weird
aug 13, 2025, 9:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Last time I flew out of Denver, the luggage system caught fire and we had to bring our supposed-to-be-checked luggage to the gate.
aug 13, 2025, 9:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Indianapolis, hand down.
aug 13, 2025, 9:11 pm • 1 0 • view
First post 9/11 airport built, and it shows. The natural flow through quick security is wonderful.
aug 14, 2025, 1:18 am • 0 0 • view
I’m going to shout out Birmingham, Alabama (BHM), which is blessedly quiet with no music or blaring TVs, well laid out, and easy to get around in.
aug 13, 2025, 11:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Louisville (SDF) is a perfect airport. It’s big enough to have direct flights to useful places, small enough to get around quickly, and the rental cars are right outside baggage claim. Also, TSA won’t give you a hard time about a hand cooler filled with frozen, badly butchered venison.
aug 13, 2025, 8:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Long Beach, CA ... unbelievably chill with plenty of regional access
aug 13, 2025, 6:57 pm • 4 0 • view
Rapid City, but then that requires you to fly to Rapid City.
aug 13, 2025, 9:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Jacksonville International is solid. It’s small, and I always get through security in about 10 minutes. Have never had an issue there.
aug 13, 2025, 7:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Riga, Latvia has a clean, sleek airport (or did ~8 years ago when I was there) that is an actual pleasure to spend time in. It and the Tallinn, Estonia's airport both have great indoor playgrounds. And SFO's lack of blaring announcements is The Best.
aug 13, 2025, 8:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not sure if it's just because the alternative is LAX, but I love Hollywood Burbank Airport
aug 13, 2025, 8:06 pm • 11 1 • view
Oh it’s so much easier all around !
aug 13, 2025, 8:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Anything other than LAX is an improvement.
aug 13, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
I love Burbank!
aug 13, 2025, 9:58 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s fun to have an outdoor bag claim.
aug 13, 2025, 11:06 pm • 6 0 • view
Sure a few in Asia: Narita, for Sushi Kyotatsu and a handful of beer bars. Suvarnabhumi is good for food. I've never been in a faster, smoother airport than Singapore's
aug 13, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Edinburgh Airport is delightful. I've only been through Logan once but I thought it was nice. & Wellington (Aotearoa/NZ) airport, w/ it's life-sized Gwahir & other eagles from The Hobbit, plus often a welcoming haka, is fun. Plus it's right on Lyall Bay; looks like surfers could grab landing gear
aug 14, 2025, 9:33 am • 1 0 • view
Better yet, they have a Graeter's in Concourse A
aug 14, 2025, 9:35 am • 0 0 • view
This reminds me of the new Naked Gun: “I had five more chili dogs that day”
aug 13, 2025, 7:26 pm • 7 0 • view
I'm going to destroy the internet by saying, actually, ORD.
aug 13, 2025, 7:23 pm • 16 0 • view
same
aug 13, 2025, 7:34 pm • 1 0 • view
I love ORD. Unlike some of the other large airports, they do a better job of accessibility with the moving walkways.
aug 13, 2025, 8:26 pm • 8 0 • view
Same! It's my go-to when I need a connector between east & west coast. Spokes-on-a-wheel is a clever idea. Berghoff's is legit good food (not just good for an airport) Don't love the distance between things, and snow is a wild card, but the airport itself is pretty good IMO given its size
aug 14, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not as bad as internet whiners say. You can get a direct flight to other world class cities. I was in and out with my global entry/TSA precheck. Blue line transit from airport to the loop.
aug 13, 2025, 9:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Nagoya in Japan is a GREAT airport, and it floats!
aug 13, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Food-wise, San Antonio and Austin are yum!
aug 13, 2025, 7:46 pm • 1 0 • view
BDL is pretty awesome. Easy to get into and out of with lots of good direct flights and connections. Good food and is actively improving the experience.
aug 14, 2025, 3:30 am • 2 0 • view
Sky Harbor is great. Super spacious. Security always pretty quick. Local food and craft beer spots throughout. They made some renovations to one of the terminals and it’s nicer than I could’ve imagined
aug 13, 2025, 8:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Norfolk, Va. Compact, easy to access by car and they have a pretty good seafood restaurant where blowsy cocktail waitresses with cigarette voices serve decently priced Bloody Marys.
aug 13, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Washington National. Smallish, handy, has a zillion flights a day to Atlanta. Accessible to the Metro with a short hike. Intown. Only flaw is that they put That Man’s name on it.
aug 13, 2025, 7:12 pm • 7 0 • view
Added bonus if you have priority: the Admirals Club in Concourse E of DCA is nicer than some of the Flagship Lounges I've seen.
aug 13, 2025, 7:17 pm • 1 0 • view
It will always be National to me, I can be there in moments. I'm liking IAD more now since Metro FINALLY goes there.
aug 13, 2025, 7:27 pm • 5 0 • view
IAD has its drawbacks, especially since the parts United uses are crowded and dingy. But the mobile lounges are so fun, and look futuristic even though they're technically an antiquated technology at this point. And seeing all the airlines from overseas in Concourses A and B is fun too.
aug 14, 2025, 9:55 am • 0 0 • view
The “mobile lounges” are those buses on stilts? That’s the worst part. Any airport with buses instead of trams/moving walkways is bad. CDG used to suck something awful before the tram, as you had to ride buses that drove around the perimeter.
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I think the mobile lounges are a delightful throwback to the promises of the jet age. They're not in use as much these days, replaced by a tram, and will all likely be retired soon.
aug 14, 2025, 12:49 pm • 2 0 • view
ALB is good, actually
aug 13, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
there's such a thing as a good airport?
aug 13, 2025, 8:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Helsinki
aug 13, 2025, 8:24 pm • 2 0 • view
LOVE HELSINKI
aug 14, 2025, 1:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I gotta show some love to a couple of regionals: White Plains, NY and Eagle-Vail, CO. Bradley Int’l in Hartford is decent, too, but second tier to the others.
aug 13, 2025, 10:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Knock.
aug 13, 2025, 8:10 pm • 3 0 • view
This isn't really the point of your question, but LAX gets a way worse rap than deserved. Each terminal is like a small airport, you're not walking 30 minutes after security or to make a connection* *with the exception of the west gates at Tom Bradley International Terminal, that sucks
aug 13, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
And security is a breeze every single time. Compared to someplace like JFK where you security takes easily twice as long and then the gate is a mile away after all that, it's crazy to me that it gets so much hate
aug 13, 2025, 7:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Vancouver is nice.
aug 13, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I like Houston Hobby. IT's got big spaces, easy to get margaritas, and sometimes they have a string quartet.
aug 13, 2025, 7:51 pm • 1 0 • view
P D X
aug 13, 2025, 6:28 pm • 24 0 • view
BDL is nearby and acceptable
aug 13, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
don't understand the haters on Logan, BOS is very straightforward, walkable, and you can deplane and get on the MBTA for free.
aug 13, 2025, 8:59 pm • 1 0 • view
PDX, especially with the renovations, rules. great coffee (with multiple options!), great food, great atmosphere. plus it has a mini- @hollywoodtheatre.org that shows local short films
aug 13, 2025, 6:45 pm • 45 0 • view
Sea-Tac is fine, for a while it had the best run TSA checkpoint of any airport I visited regularly, good amount of seating, good fast food options, easy to get to, rich array of nonstops thanks to its being an Alaska hub
aug 13, 2025, 6:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Their security lines are shockingly good. And I can’t say that about many airports.
aug 13, 2025, 7:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Have always lover Tampa International. They also have a giant Flamingo. Good times.
aug 13, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
John Wayne, OC, Cali
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Anchorage International. Good food, the artwork and sculptures are terrific and if you get bored the scenery outside the airport is freaking awesome.
aug 13, 2025, 9:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Raleigh is in the fine-to-good range
aug 13, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
New Orleans new terminal is fantastic. Good food options, well laid out, big security area, clean.
aug 13, 2025, 7:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Keflavik is really chill and pretty and their smoking section is outdoor 🙏
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Greensboro, NC. Runner up: Boise, ID
aug 13, 2025, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Tampa is legit
aug 13, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Columbia, SC is a great small airport. It’s been a few years but Houston George Bush IAH is nice for a huge airport.
aug 13, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Hadn't flown out of SFO in about ten years until last week, and terminal 1 is beautiful. Spacious, tons of comfortable seating, gates tucked away a little bit so you're not hearing announcements for eight different flights.
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This is on purpose! 😁 It’s a “quiet airport,” so they only do announcements and stuff in relevant areas. I love it. More info here! www.flysfo.com/media/press-...
aug 17, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Lanseria (HLA) near Johannesburg. A tiny airport but an international one. Great staff, comfortable chairs, works efficiently, free coffee and tea (as of last time I was there, which was a few years ago).
aug 13, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view
BUF is my main home airport, and it's a pretty good midsized airport (with all the advantages and disadvantages that entails). I was at SNA last week and liked it.
aug 13, 2025, 7:04 pm • 3 0 • view
MSP. Also, despite its size, ATL.
aug 13, 2025, 9:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Detroit is great. Open concourses. 25 years old but still looks new. Relatively easy security
aug 13, 2025, 6:24 pm • 11 0 • view
I feel like its easy for a small airport to be efficient, but Detroit is a huge hub and nails it.
aug 14, 2025, 12:20 am • 5 0 • view
TPA is a gem. Love flying in/out of there.
aug 14, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
The only good airport is a train station
aug 13, 2025, 7:49 pm • 7 1 • view
You can always tell the Americans at international airports. They're the ones running around barefoot.
aug 17, 2025, 10:19 am • 0 0 • view
No one makes me take off my shoes, throw away my water, put all liquids in a small plastic bag, take off my belt/jacket/sweater, part with my cell and laptop; no one puts their hands on my body or scans it and my ID, looks at every item in my bag or anything else so I can get on the very safe train.
aug 17, 2025, 10:17 am • 0 0 • view
Can’t take a train to Puerto Rico.
aug 14, 2025, 12:39 pm • 0 0 • view
The new airport in Kansas City (MCI) is really nice.
aug 13, 2025, 8:05 pm • 2 0 • view
PDX is America’s best airport.
aug 13, 2025, 6:55 pm • 39 0 • view
I've been flying between DC and New England for 4 decades. Shout out to the smaller airports that are So much better than Logan - Manchester, NH; Providence, RI and Hartford/Springfield.
aug 13, 2025, 7:47 pm • 5 0 • view
Last summer at PVD I went from drop-off, through security, to my gate in like <10 minutes. It was amazing.
aug 13, 2025, 8:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I fly in/out of Bradley (Hartford/Springfield) a lot and love how you know there won't ever be a delay in taking off after boarding, because there's never a line of planes waiting to take off.
aug 13, 2025, 8:19 pm • 1 0 • view
On my bucket list, but I think Barra in the outer Hebrides must be pretty good. It's basically just the beach.
aug 14, 2025, 2:18 pm • 2 0 • view
I’ve been through Indianapolis several times and I’ve never had a problem. Detroit is extremely efficiently laid out and easy to navigate.
aug 13, 2025, 6:24 pm • 6 0 • view
No better place to pick someone up than MDW. Baggage carousel to parking garage is a 30 second walk.
aug 13, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Providence, Rhode Island. Can be parked on site and through security in 20 minutes on a week night and there is a train to Boston
aug 13, 2025, 8:15 pm • 8 0 • view
IND is this efficient too. 40 minutes from closing my garage door to sitting at the gate, and we have a 20-minute drive.
aug 13, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Might try flying through here sometime. Just moved far enough west from Boston that Boston, Providence, and Manchester are all about an hour away. And Hartford is only 20 minutes further. Inconvenient to all, but at least a ton of options.
aug 13, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
For the east coast, Chicago, and the Caribbean it’s incredible
aug 13, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Paine Field in Everett, WA near Seattle. It’s a chill regional airport with a hotel lobby-esque terminal (with a Beecher’s Cheese and great coffee)
aug 14, 2025, 1:43 am • 2 0 • view
I genuinely like BWI. ATX is good at non-rush times, but hopelessly understaffed during the holidays. BOS is very conveniently located now that they fixed the planes-overshooting-the-runway-into-the-water problem. ROC is the calmest airport I've ever been to.
aug 13, 2025, 8:06 pm • 1 0 • view
DTW for large. Augusta, GA is a cute and efficient small airport
aug 13, 2025, 6:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Atlanta has a smart security queue (not perfect, but very solid) and an excellent terminal design. Coming back from overseas sucks, but everything else is pretty good.
aug 13, 2025, 6:29 pm • 5 0 • view
Global Entry. You'll be so glad you did.
aug 13, 2025, 6:55 pm • 4 0 • view
Or even just the free CBP mobile passport control app...
aug 14, 2025, 11:20 am • 1 0 • view
I fly in and out of Hartsfield-Jackson in ATL all the time and find it to be incredibly well run and efficient. Better by miles than all of the nation’s other giant airports.
aug 13, 2025, 6:27 pm • 72 1 • view
Bless you for having the guts to be correct.
aug 13, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Atlanta isn't AN airport, it's THE airport, and everyone should love and respect it for that.
aug 13, 2025, 8:33 pm • 1 0 • view
I love ATL and I’m flummoxed by the haters!
aug 13, 2025, 6:40 pm • 36 0 • view
People hate it because it’s a major hub and bad weather can cause delays and missed connections. But you cannot deny that it runs very efficiently for the world’s busiest airport.
aug 14, 2025, 3:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah I hear people badmouth it all the time and I always wonder if they’re going to a different airport than I am.
aug 13, 2025, 6:43 pm • 20 0 • view
It's hard to imagine someone having any kind of extended encounter with LGA, EWR, or IAD and staying mad at the flat, orthogonal, contiguous airport.
aug 13, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
the one obvious thing it's missing is moving walkways running the length of the concourses, for when your flight is out at B1 or C49 or whatever. aside from that? yeah, pretty solid airport!
aug 13, 2025, 6:53 pm • 2 0 • view
A short horror story: Back when you had to stop and check the boards for your gate number, my boss once tried to save me some time by texting that our flight was at D1. It was at D31.
aug 13, 2025, 8:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Same. Is it the train? It's one of the least complicated of those.
aug 13, 2025, 6:46 pm • 27 0 • view
The train is so easy! And if you really hate it you can walk! It’s so strange to me that anyone would find if less than pleasant and efficient.
aug 13, 2025, 6:48 pm • 5 0 • view
I think partially it’s the train, partially that it’s just so big.
aug 13, 2025, 6:48 pm • 5 0 • view
It is big- like DEN, if you are connecting and have to get to another gate, it can be tough
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You’re reminded about how bad a major hub can be when you’re at CLT and ATL shines like a gem.
aug 13, 2025, 6:50 pm • 32 0 • view
Why is it that I don't ever have problems at CLT? It's not great, but it's not horrible!
aug 13, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
If you ever have a short layover it can be atrocious!
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to/from Concourse E. Which I just was forced to do last week. Oy.
aug 14, 2025, 12:36 am • 1 0 • view
Oh totally, but there's very few flights that have a short layover (esp if your incoming is late) and a half mile apart, but you CAN run it. You'd just be hosed in ATL or DFW without a shadow of a doubt.
aug 13, 2025, 8:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I regularly fly from the United hub at IAH to the Delta hub at ATL, and the contrast in efficient movement of large numbers of people could not be greater. ATL may not be much to look at, and it can be crowded, but the ease of getting in and out given the sheer volume of people can't be beat.
aug 13, 2025, 7:11 pm • 15 0 • view
Happy to see this thread here. It’s just great design and execution.
aug 13, 2025, 8:25 pm • 2 0 • view
ATL is my home airport. I don’t understand the hate. Yes it’s big. The train is super easy to use. It’s a perfect grid design. Architecturally it’s not special (unlike Newark terminal A and C) but it’s efficient.
aug 13, 2025, 10:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Exactly! They handle almost 300k people every day and do it better than a lot of airports half the size. I’m continually impressed.
aug 13, 2025, 11:15 pm • 2 0 • view
"ATL bad" is the airport equivalent of being super aggro about hating pineapple on pizza or having actual feelings about the orientation of the toilet paper. It's a meme opinion that people say just to feel included and like they stand for something. For that matter, this is also true of "LGA bad".
aug 18, 2025, 1:13 pm • 0 0 • view
On a related note, "Spirit! The horror!" is the same as "Eww I hate the word moist XD"
aug 18, 2025, 9:39 pm • 0 0 • view
When I was a smoker, I LOVED ATL
aug 14, 2025, 12:30 pm • 1 0 • view
ATL the airport and the city looked a lot better to me coming home from a business trip to Baltimore in winter, a few years back.
aug 13, 2025, 6:51 pm • 4 0 • view
If you live here and know how to use it, it's great. The exception is flying Monday early a.m. & going thru security with freq. flyers who all have the same Clear, Prechk, etc. you do. Then you're reminded you're at the world's busiest airport.
aug 13, 2025, 7:05 pm • 2 0 • view
And the only one with an ASMR rainforest walk
aug 14, 2025, 11:22 am • 0 0 • view
You can walk almost a mile through art, history and culture exhibits. TSA is often a nightmare but the airport beyond that is great.
aug 13, 2025, 7:34 pm • 2 0 • view
ATL is the best airport for a longish layover because it's so easy to move between the terminals and everything is behind security. AMS, CDG, JFK are all miserable by comparison. Internationally I really like Tokyo Haneda.
aug 13, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Heck yeah from your mouth to God's ears: bsky.app/profile/alex...
aug 13, 2025, 7:32 pm • 5 0 • view
Huge fan of ATL! It’s massive and busy, but runs so smoothly.
aug 14, 2025, 1:33 am • 0 0 • view
Since opening day, ATL has made art a priority—workers actually tried to throw away valuable canvases thinking they were paint tarps. I see something different every time I’m in ATL.
aug 14, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
It is a great airport - for its size, the fact that it runs so smoothly is a feat in itself.
aug 14, 2025, 11:22 am • 0 0 • view
Atlanta’s not bad at all and I think it gets a bad rap but the one I’ve come to like quite a bit since moving to Albany (besides the Albany airport which is small) is Detroit…it’s clean, easy to navigate, has a great bookstore and other food options
aug 13, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
ATL is all about throughput and they are the best in the biz at it
aug 13, 2025, 7:07 pm • 5 0 • view
The only reason I dislike ATL is because I ALWAYS get stuck overnight, literally 100% of the flights I've had there, because of weather
aug 13, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
ATL is underrated. I don't get the haters TBH (maybe because we all end up there at some point). But it's pretty efficient for how large it is. I think it does need a little refresh and food improvements though.
aug 13, 2025, 9:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Given what it could be it’s a modern marvel.
aug 13, 2025, 7:51 pm • 1 0 • view
I like the airport itself but traversing ATL to get to it sucks.
aug 14, 2025, 12:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Living there is probably easier. Whenever I have to connect there, or if it’s my destination and I need to get a rental car, it’s bad.
aug 13, 2025, 6:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Between the train and the walking involved, I was about ready to give up when I reached the rental counter... ...only to be told that they wouldn't have a car for me for at least an hour.
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Nagasaki was surprisingly nice for a little airport
aug 13, 2025, 7:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I very much appreciated Chicago's Midway because I was able to get into the loop so quickly on a train. NYC makes transit to downtown from the airport confusing with the intermodal systems and the extra charge of airtrain.
aug 13, 2025, 7:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Its a hike from the gate to the train though. I appreciate JFK for having the trains right at the arrivals/departures entrance. Though the new terminal is so big it sucks to get around inside of it.
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Haneda in Tokyo had the breeziest check-in of any large airport I've ever been to.
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TPA has the security set up at the smaller terminals, not the main airport, so you seldom have a long line. Downside is that the excellent Columbia Restaurant is in one of those terminals so only accessible to flyers on certain airlines.
aug 13, 2025, 7:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Long Beach is one of the nicest and most pleasant airports I’ve ever been in.
aug 13, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Everyone working at PHL is just as pissed off as me to be there which is a fun bonding experience.
aug 13, 2025, 8:48 pm • 3 0 • view
John Wayne
aug 13, 2025, 6:15 pm • 11 0 • view
I have flown into/out of that airport both times I've been to the area and found it lovely.
aug 13, 2025, 8:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Burbank. No frills. Just right.
aug 13, 2025, 9:27 pm • 4 0 • view
PDX my beloved
aug 13, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view
PDX for evah.
aug 13, 2025, 7:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Portland, Oregon, has a pretty good airport. It was really nice (but small) and it's in the middle of an insane reconstruction that's making it a lot bigger with the promise of it being nice when the job is done. (The new ticketing hall is FABULOUS)
aug 13, 2025, 7:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Portland, Oregon
aug 13, 2025, 8:06 pm • 6 0 • view
Albuquerque had always been the perfect size to meet its needs. Great local food options (most behind TSA). And Honolulu is a gem—whether coming or going, the indoor/outdoor spaces just do a body good.
aug 13, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Coming from Chicago, the open walls at the check-in counters in Honolulu blew my mind. God help me, my first thought was, "But what do they do when it snows?" 😄
aug 14, 2025, 3:04 am • 1 0 • view
Tampa
aug 13, 2025, 9:26 pm • 2 0 • view
ATL is good to great imo. The haters are wrong. OKC, Detroit, and SeaTac have all been good to me too. Basically… with CLT as one of my most frequent airports basically everything else seems good.
aug 13, 2025, 11:05 pm • 1 0 • view
There is no reason in hell for you to ever end up in the Santa Rosa airport, but it is Peanuts themed and it's very, very cute.
aug 14, 2025, 5:06 am • 3 0 • view
I'm picking LAS (prob biased because I love Vegas so much). It's easy to get in and out of, security is always a breeze, and there are always shops with sparkly things which is a must for me. Also, gambling while you're waiting helps pass the time.
aug 13, 2025, 10:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Good Kiev Boryspil - lovely and for obvious reasons largely empty Bournemouth - a basic shed at the side of the runway, so supremely easy to go through Hong Kong Chep Lap Kok - brilliant, modern, efficient Bristol - pain in the arse to get to but expanded, modernised Bad Paris CDG Aberdeen Mumbai
aug 14, 2025, 10:40 am • 0 0 • view
Also I loved Berlin Tempelhof - it's a wide, thin terminal so you get off the plane, pick up your bags and do customs and immigration in about 100 metres
aug 14, 2025, 12:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Probably LCY. Easy and fast to get to, super efficient, very comfortable, everything seems well maintained and functional. It’s never taken me more than 10 minutes to get through security and customs there.
aug 13, 2025, 7:21 pm • 3 0 • view
Durango, CO: it's small and has 5 gates and it takes less than an hour from getting dropped off to security to boarding if you checked in online
aug 13, 2025, 7:20 pm • 0 0 • view
The stall doors in the bathrooms in Kansas City’s airport go all the way down to the floor. I think the rest of the airport was fine too but honestly that luxury is so precious and rare in this country that that’s enough for it to make the nice list, imo.
aug 14, 2025, 1:31 am • 3 0 • view
Yeah, the new MCI was really nice. Especially compared to the old MCI, which was a wistful glimpse of the way air travel used to be combined with a heinous reminder of the way it is now.
aug 14, 2025, 3:00 am • 2 0 • view
Minneapolis-St. Paul holds this crown.
aug 13, 2025, 6:28 pm • 55 0 • view
The amount of public art on display in MSP is amazing! So easy to pass time during a layover there.
aug 13, 2025, 8:41 pm • 5 0 • view
Philippines Cebu airport is nicer than any airport in the US and UK combined
aug 13, 2025, 11:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Mitchell (MKE). Home of the Recombobulation Area
aug 14, 2025, 12:01 am • 5 0 • view
OAK and BUR are my favorites! Less busy than SFO and LAX, and way easier to navigate.
aug 13, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
I love the 1-3-5 minute story machines at OAK.
aug 13, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Little Rock, AR. I fly there every year and I've never had any issues.
aug 13, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree actually! I flew into LIT in March and had no issues whatsoever. My one complaint as a car free person is that the only transit access is Rock Region Metro’s Metro Connect (aka microtransit) instead of a fixed route local bus.
aug 13, 2025, 11:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Lived in Tampa for a long time. TIA is a nice, easy to enter and exit, comfortable airport.
aug 13, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Genuinely SFO. Fairly easy access by road, also by BART, the train around the airport makes getting to and from your car to the terminals a breeze, lots of destinations, airport layout isn't bad, neither is security, quiet places to rest, art, and this guy:
aug 13, 2025, 9:52 pm • 4 0 • view
The new Kansas City terminal is great
aug 13, 2025, 10:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Zurich is comically Swiss, always feels like it's 630am, and you've got the place to yourself.
aug 14, 2025, 11:37 am • 0 0 • view
Hong Kong 🇭🇰
aug 14, 2025, 7:15 am • 1 0 • view
I slept overnight there twice and I agree it is charming (but cold at 2am)
aug 14, 2025, 10:58 am • 2 0 • view
Haneda. It's real nice
aug 13, 2025, 9:54 pm • 1 0 • view
MSP and SFO are both excellent larger-metro airports. ALB and BDL are very good smaller ones.
aug 13, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Honestly, I'm partial to RDU. Idk why, but it's just like so perfectly mid on every level.
aug 13, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m utterly charmed by MKE’s Recombobulation Area
aug 13, 2025, 8:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Excellent used bookstore there as well
aug 14, 2025, 11:02 am • 1 0 • view
For the US: PSP if we’re counting small. Indoor/outdoor. Beautiful. PDX good too.
aug 14, 2025, 4:05 am • 2 0 • view
I will still defend midway over O’Hare any day but I feel like Southwest is about to fall apart so it’s time is over. It’s got an L train line and is almost always less hectic. Easy in and out. Being tied solely to Southwest might doom it if the changes don’t go over well.
aug 13, 2025, 8:24 pm • 5 0 • view
Plus those short runways make for excitement in the winter
aug 14, 2025, 7:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, that is super cool.
aug 13, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Best Airport in the US I've been to and it's not close
aug 14, 2025, 8:09 am • 1 0 • view
is that new? It's even prettier than I remember! (my last time flying into PDX was 2016)
aug 13, 2025, 7:36 pm • 4 0 • view
Yes - huge renovation they just opened earlier this year - $2 Billion project. It's beyond beautiful - that mass timber roof is 9 acres.
aug 13, 2025, 7:45 pm • 9 0 • view
Another cool thing about PDX is there’s a ton of local shops & restaurants and they aren’t allowed to charge more than what they do at their other locales in the city.
aug 14, 2025, 2:04 am • 4 0 • view
Wow. I mean, just as a feat of construction, that is gorgeous
aug 13, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Some of the nicest TSA people in the country.
aug 14, 2025, 3:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Portlanders love to tell you about how the food at PDX airport is reasonably priced because of a local law mandating it
aug 13, 2025, 10:32 pm • 4 0 • view
it's gorgeous now, but i felt like i had walked a mile by the time i actually got there from my gate didn't help that i was carrying 24 pounds of cats (shhh don't tell Southwest that my pet carrier was 20% over weight)
aug 14, 2025, 12:29 am • 0 0 • view
Your secret is safe with me! Yeah - they are still finishing phase 2 and the walk times will fall dramatically when more direct access is opened up in 2026. www.pdxnext.com/Stories/Deta...
aug 14, 2025, 12:42 am • 2 0 • view
DEN is pretty good, although the current construction is annoying.
aug 13, 2025, 6:53 pm • 7 0 • view
TPA has one of the best door to gate times of any airport.
aug 13, 2025, 10:15 pm • 1 0 • view
PSP is an outdoor one, which is interesting and neat to see.
aug 13, 2025, 10:16 pm • 1 0 • view
RIC because driving to Dulles or Reagan absolutely sucks
aug 14, 2025, 2:21 am • 1 0 • view
Chicago Midway. The alternative is O'Hare.
aug 13, 2025, 7:33 pm • 2 0 • view
I like Kansas City’s new airport quite a bit, but I do wish their BBQ restaurants served chicken.
aug 13, 2025, 8:07 pm • 5 0 • view
Loved the Bozeman airport!
aug 13, 2025, 6:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Landed at New Orleans at 2 o'clock in the morning and walked through the deserted terminal to the sounds of Louis Armstrong on the PA. That put it at the top of my list.
aug 13, 2025, 6:40 pm • 4 0 • view
Loved the grandly named Glacier Park Int (or Kalispell Int)...even in the middle of a major remodel, the lounge was just 👌
aug 13, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view
SFO. . . Yes, it's well laid out, clean, good (sometimes*really* good) food. But best of all, it's quiet. Announcements are few, localized, intelligible and quiet.
aug 13, 2025, 9:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Dubai airport. Everything is well marked, efficient, the staff are polite, security make you feel secure instead of acting like bullies or control freaks, the customs process is fast and painless. Best run airport in the world.
aug 14, 2025, 11:03 am • 1 0 • view
RDU
aug 13, 2025, 11:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Portland International Airport (PDX) is genuinely beautiful
aug 13, 2025, 11:11 pm • 4 0 • view
RDU, small airport with big airport flights/ airfare. And birds
aug 14, 2025, 2:14 am • 1 0 • view
I second this!
aug 14, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
SFO hands down
aug 13, 2025, 8:12 pm • 2 0 • view
I piggybacked lounge access with an exec I was traveling with at SFO and it was niiiice - American I think
aug 13, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Milwaukee is an underrated airport. Harrisburg PA for a regional is nice.
aug 13, 2025, 8:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Love the “RECOMBOBILATION AREA” signs at Mitchell. (After the TSA checkpoint)
aug 14, 2025, 8:54 am • 0 0 • view
Minneapolis airport has a metro and I once saw Prince there
aug 13, 2025, 9:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Does international count? I've flown in and out of Munich and had layovers there and have never had anything but a smooth, positive experience. With the S-Bahn, you can even schedule a long layover and pop into the city for a few hours.
aug 13, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Long Beach, Burbank, Bellingham, Portland, Bogotá, Montevideo, Lima Fwiw Oakland almooooost doesn't suck
aug 13, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
The new SLC airport is good. It's a lot of walking to & from gates but the security lines are set up to move a lot of people, curbside pickup/drop-off locations are well established for different transportation options, and it has a large onsite waiting lot.
aug 13, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Oslo airport was very nice, lots of natural light, very airy, very Danish modern, and there's plenty of interesting little shops to kill time in
aug 14, 2025, 12:37 am • 0 0 • view
I love Denver International Airport. I've been lucky there every time.
aug 13, 2025, 9:58 pm • 10 0 • view
I'm always happy to fly through Denver!
aug 14, 2025, 6:30 pm • 1 0 • view
LCY ftw!
aug 14, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view
The new MCI is awesome. Shuttle to gate in 20 mins and it’s an easy “H” shape just like salt lake.
aug 13, 2025, 6:22 pm • 9 0 • view
Billy Bishop (YTZ) is a great little airport.
aug 13, 2025, 6:31 pm • 8 0 • view
I wanted to put this, but it's declined so much in the last 10 years. Justice for the era of THE FREE HUMMUS and zero lines ever
aug 13, 2025, 7:29 pm • 3 0 • view
Nooo it's been about that long since I used it, I was going to hype it up but I guess I should have known when Porter also went all pay for the little perks they used to do as part of their flight service :/
aug 13, 2025, 7:38 pm • 2 0 • view
The true death knell was letting Air Crapada (not a typo) in there
aug 13, 2025, 7:40 pm • 3 0 • view
And I'd still pick Porter (which is what I call that airport lol) over Pearson every day ever. It's just that the decline is so stark. 2009-2011 YTZ would be the best airport ever easily
aug 13, 2025, 7:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Thinking back 2011 was my best time flying out, between Porter & YTZ itself. Plus I worked at a restaurant deep downtown and got off shift and was there and through security there in about half an hour? The longest part was the pedestrian tunnel
aug 13, 2025, 7:49 pm • 3 0 • view
I don't remember the tunnel existing back then, wasn't it ferry only until a few years later? (I mentally judge this by where I lived at the time, feels like tunnel didn't exist until I was in NYC or maybe Boston)
aug 13, 2025, 7:50 pm • 2 0 • view
I love the world's shortest ferry ride, though
aug 13, 2025, 7:58 pm • 2 0 • view
oh saaame, if I still had fb I had some great photos from there
aug 13, 2025, 7:59 pm • 2 0 • view
yes, per wiki it was in 2015!
aug 13, 2025, 7:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Makes sense, last time I traveled out it
aug 13, 2025, 7:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I might be conflating trips! The longest part WAS the tunnel but that probably was my last trip out of it, I do remember the ferry too. I had to think hard which restaurant I worked at in 2011 because I've been at 4 different ones along King Street so yeah the years blend together
aug 13, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I actually still prefer the ferry tbh. It was closed the last time I was there (in 2022, I can't remember if masks were still required but if not it was recent, so you'd think people would prefer to be outdoors)
aug 13, 2025, 7:56 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s superb. I can land at YTZ and then literally walk to my brother’s apartment.
aug 13, 2025, 6:45 pm • 3 0 • view
I can take the Bathurst bus/streetcar there!
aug 13, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
MSP! Minnesota nice people work there. Bright, immaculate, and the best restrooms. So many food choices, including local restaurants. Employees with electric carts to get you from one concourse to another when you’re short on time. And great shopping. Emotional support dogs on duty.
aug 13, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Biased, but Indianapolis for sure. Small but with plenty of gates, easy to navigate, easy TSA bc it was massively renovated post-9/11. No long corridors of wondering why that area even exists like some airports. Plus lots of rotating local art/interests highlighted in the entry and down each arm!
aug 14, 2025, 4:49 pm • 1 0 • view
I hope you'll forgive me if, rather than extol the virtues of the airports themselves, I praise ORD and PHL for the wonderful convenience of their rail links to downtown.
aug 13, 2025, 6:39 pm • 31 0 • view
Yeah, the BART line from SFO to downtown San Francisco is $11 and super convenient.
aug 13, 2025, 7:51 pm • 12 0 • view
But they're so close to the air planes, which are all terrible.
aug 13, 2025, 9:49 pm • 1 0 • view
i have nothing bad to say about RIC but i think it might be too small to have flaws
aug 13, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Savannah has a really good airport for a city its size. Easy in, easy out.
aug 13, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
LCY. City centre, good link. Check in an hour before flight. Quick baggage reclaim.
aug 13, 2025, 7:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Copenhagen beautiful. Dubai great. Recent experience in San Francisco was good by US airport standards. Niche, but Paine Field in Washington state is 👌
aug 13, 2025, 7:22 pm • 11 0 • view
Dubai and Schipol are my absolute international favorites. And I weirdly like this one breakfast place tucked into a nook near a Lufthansa lounge in Frankfurt. While it’s on no one’s favorite list, as a mid-century modern masterpiece Dulles will always be awesome, design wise.
aug 13, 2025, 9:03 pm • 5 0 • view
And Zurich!
aug 13, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Once they make it easier to get to and from Paine Field, it might just take off. The security is straightforward, the bathrooms are all one-holers, the decor is understated yet classy, and the food is simple-but good.
aug 13, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh I have been there. The restrooms alone make me need to visit my aunt on Lopez again so that I can go through
aug 13, 2025, 7:29 pm • 1 0 • view
On behalf of your aunt.... come visit me anyway, we'll go look for orca!
aug 13, 2025, 7:33 pm • 1 0 • view
I really really disliked Dubai, staff was super unfriendly and prices were exorbitant, but I was very pleasantly surprised by Prague
aug 13, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Las Vegas. Usually works just fine and keeps drunk people entertained.
aug 13, 2025, 7:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Sounds like my nap schedule—works fine and entertains me when I’m halfawake. Pass the tuna.
aug 13, 2025, 7:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Knoxville. Rocking chairs and streams from security to the concourse. Small market airports are usually much more relaxed
aug 13, 2025, 6:53 pm • 2 1 • view
Flying in and out of OMA is corn silk smooth.
aug 13, 2025, 6:27 pm • 2 0 • view
And the parking shuttle drivers are almost obscenely nice.
aug 13, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I'll say Sky Harbor in Phoenix. For as big as it is, it works well. From rental car return to gate, it's easy.
aug 13, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Burbank. The secret escape hatch to get in and out of Los Angeles without dealing with the purgatory of LAX
aug 13, 2025, 6:50 pm • 3 0 • view
Chicago Midway is way better than Chicago O'Hara. Smaller, typically less chance of delays, and they re-did a lot of it so the food options are superior too. Seoul's Incheon airport you could live in for days.
aug 13, 2025, 11:06 pm • 2 0 • view
DCA DTW BOS SEA PDX SLC
aug 13, 2025, 9:04 pm • 1 0 • view
MSP? Pretty good. Never really had a bad time there.
aug 13, 2025, 8:13 pm • 1 0 • view
I flew home from Burbank Saturday. Terminal 2 has 5 gates. 10 minutes from curbside drop off through TSA to gate. Completely painless
aug 13, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Small airports are nice but can be a bit shitty in terms of facilities if your flight has a long delay. Special shout out to Inverness, where I was let onto a flight after inexplicably losing* my boarding pass after security due to being the only passenger left in the airport.
aug 14, 2025, 10:33 am • 0 0 • view
Fond memories of seeing Inverness land crew walk a pensioner to the plane well ahead of us with the care you would take to help your gran onto the bus. Also saw no sign of ticket check :)
aug 14, 2025, 11:09 am • 1 0 • view
* The aforementioned pass also inexplicably appeared in my pocket during the flight.
aug 14, 2025, 10:34 am • 0 0 • view
I adore the huge glass atrium at SEA-TAC airport. They have rocking chairs by the windows and often have live music. I have actually arrived extra early for flights just to get a cup of Ivar's clam chowder, a piece of Dilettante chocolate, and hang out there.
aug 13, 2025, 7:44 pm • 5 0 • view
Don't forget about the Sub Pop record store. (But Sea-Tac is a mess right now. All kinds of construction)
aug 13, 2025, 8:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, bummer. It's been a few years since I've been there.
aug 13, 2025, 11:52 pm • 0 0 • view
SeaTac has been a mess for almost a decade
aug 13, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I like that part of SEA too, i always get a cup of fancy hot chocolate from Dilletante when I'm there.
aug 14, 2025, 9:57 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, Sea-Tac is really not bad at all. It’s pretty small for how many destinations you can reach nonstop from there, security lines rarely terrible (and you can make a free reservation for them to skip the line), decent food options.
aug 13, 2025, 7:51 pm • 1 0 • view
The new LaGuardia is actually pretty good, not as nice to look at as other airports but they’re pretty efficient!
aug 13, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 1 • view
Indianapolis.
aug 13, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Seconding this. So easy to get to and through, plenty of room (or at least the high ceilings make it feel that way), local food vendors.
aug 13, 2025, 7:33 pm • 1 0 • view
AUS has great food mostly from local Austin restaurants Because every passenger is TSA or Global, the regular security line can be much faster Copenhagen is lovely and like nearly every European airport incredibly easy to get to Milan is gorgeous (but American carriers are stupidly far from gates)
aug 13, 2025, 8:13 pm • 1 0 • view
I second CPH - it feels smaller than it is and easier to get through than it should be for a metro of that size and significance.
aug 13, 2025, 8:58 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m late but being able to walk out of the (small) terminal in El Paso and your rental car is right there is great.
aug 13, 2025, 11:13 pm • 1 0 • view
PNS Pensacola: clean, cheery, easy to navigate. Flew in this morning then drove to Mobile.
aug 13, 2025, 8:23 pm • 0 0 • view
For the few times a year (max) I fly, PHL is perfectly fine!
aug 13, 2025, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Oakland
aug 13, 2025, 6:24 pm • 3 0 • view
I liked Boise and Anchorage for smaller cities.
aug 13, 2025, 10:29 pm • 0 0 • view
SIN of course - more to do than almost any other airport (except maybe ICN), absolutely fantastic food at very reasonable prices (at what other airport in one of the most expensive cities in existence can you get a great meal for US$5?)
aug 13, 2025, 6:42 pm • 6 0 • view
DTW (Detroit) is one of the USA’s best airports - except for the critical flaw of how hard it is to get to Detroit or Ann Arbor from it. Buses are rare, slow, and expensive. But the facility itself avoids most of the common airport pain points.
aug 13, 2025, 6:37 pm • 1 0 • view
That's more on the lack of transportation infrastructure in Michigan. Buses don't have any competition and can get away with the shitty service.
aug 13, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
SEA is great! Takes me <5 mins to clear security pretty consistently, every gate can be reached in <10 mins from security. When I’m not checking a bag, I can get to the airport when boarding starts and catch my flight consistently.
aug 14, 2025, 7:42 am • 0 0 • view
Helsinki Airport! Ranked #5 in Europe in 2025. And they have Moomins!
aug 13, 2025, 7:35 pm • 3 0 • view
I mean this sincerely: LaGuardia is an honest-to-God great airport now
aug 13, 2025, 6:33 pm • 15 0 • view
The facelift is very nice, but the fact that NYC has the best subway in the country by a longshot yet it doesn't run to the airport is completely bizarre and easily keeps LGA out of the upper echelon imo
aug 13, 2025, 6:47 pm • 16 0 • view
exactly this. i like laguardia a lot but will only fly into EWR because getting to and from laguardia is just exhausting
aug 14, 2025, 12:56 am • 0 0 • view
They do at least offer a free bus service to the subway.
aug 13, 2025, 7:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Greenville-Spartanburg is small but legit. Always have good experiences and good food options
aug 13, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I loved that airport when I lived in the Upstate. Not sure what it is like now, but years ago the campus had a lot of trees. Very soothing.
aug 14, 2025, 12:31 am • 0 0 • view
The easiest airport that I recall was Orlando. Likely because it was designed and built for mass volume of travelers.
aug 13, 2025, 6:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Sacramento!
aug 14, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
Oh, shit, that's cool.
aug 14, 2025, 11:39 am • 1 0 • view
The new Kansas City airport is absolutely incredible. MSP is undefeated for its size Blacksburg/Roanoke is pretty solid
aug 13, 2025, 7:27 pm • 4 0 • view
I love it how the security at Reikjavik airport automatically checks bags in seconds. Fast, efficient, no need to waste time taking out laptops. Despite the huge distance from downtown, AIFA airport in Mexico City is surprisingly pleasant, clean and efficient.
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Tampa International Airport is pretty solid, except for how, when you’re there, you’re in Tampa.
aug 13, 2025, 7:36 pm • 24 0 • view
**ESPECIALLY BECAUSE WHEN YOU"RE THERE, YOU'RE IN TAMPA
aug 13, 2025, 7:39 pm • 16 0 • view
Tampa works for some people better than others, is all I’ll say.
aug 13, 2025, 9:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Post Ron, it’s a lot worse to most of us
aug 14, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
I once accidentally drove onto the tarmac with a rental are there in 2012.
aug 13, 2025, 7:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Seconding TPA. I can get off my plane and be on the highway to the better side of the bay (St Petersburg) in less than 30 minutes. Its hub-and-spoke design is very simple to navigate. There's some decent local food in some of the terminals, too.
aug 13, 2025, 7:41 pm • 1 0 • view
PWM, Portland, Maine, is an excellent airport.
aug 14, 2025, 10:00 am • 0 0 • view
Ohare is great for traveling with children. There is always an empty gate to hang out at during a layover for them to run around and be obnoxious. Plus popcorn
aug 13, 2025, 6:28 pm • 4 0 • view
I’ve had pretty good experiences at Detroit, although it’s been a while since I’ve flown out of there.
aug 14, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
Greenville - Spartanburg International. They’ve made great improvements in infrastructure and amenities are nice too. Asheville NC is good too
aug 13, 2025, 6:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Parking at Asheville has been terrible last couple of times I flew out of there. GSP is always smooth.
aug 13, 2025, 11:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Hmm dragging this thread back to Europe, I do like Schiphol due to good transport links and it has a library you can browse while waiting for your gate to be called. Also Rotterdam, lovely small airport, friendly staff and easy to get to…
aug 14, 2025, 10:39 am • 5 0 • view
it really feels odd to be at a major station, then just go upstairs & you're already in the airport. not even railway ticket barriers in the way
aug 14, 2025, 10:51 am • 3 0 • view
I came here to post this exact thing about Schipol. I was staggered by the efficiency.
aug 14, 2025, 12:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Billund, Denmark - airy, quiet, lots of comfy chairs upstairs, easy. Next door to Lego.
aug 14, 2025, 9:47 am • 0 0 • view
GSP and Nashville are really nice airports.
aug 13, 2025, 7:13 pm • 0 0 • view
I think DCA is one of our prettiest airports, and I never found it a problem when I lived in DC. Just hop on the metro, swoosh, swoosh!
aug 14, 2025, 10:38 am • 0 0 • view
Sacramento has nice places to eat
aug 13, 2025, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view