Only in the first one do you actually deal with an actual airport of course--the rest are just airplane movies (or in the third movie's case, a sort of airplane/LOST situation). But I find it hilarious that 90% of the actors were like, 'Yeah, that was a piece of shit. Look at my new pool.'
I watched them all recently and for the time and for what they were, they're fine. I wouldn't have kept watching if they weren't. All of those actors did worse movies, imo.
I know. That's why I am amused a lot of them were like, 'Oh yeah terrible choice.' The only actor who has a credible gripe is Lemmon, who almost died because of a SCUBA scene where they didn't give him enough oxygen in his tank, and risked getting the bends saving himself.
Also the first one is genuinely interesting as well as pop-corny: I am a sucker for split screens and insets, and that movie is full of them.