My favorite ones are:
Singapore - Beautiful, plenty to do and explore, and great lounges in general.
Istanbul - The Turkish Airlines lounge is among the best I’ve ever visited. A bit crowded though.
Amsterdam - Lots to do, efficient design, and fun to explore. Copenhagen - Very efficient designHonorable mention: Aberdeen. Small, simple, and with a nice pub. Could’ve used a better eatery, though.
I’m not the most travelled person ever but I’ve always had good experiences at Edinburgh airport. Staffs been lovely and the security has good (relatively) smoothly.
Edinburgh is a banger. Great support for families, spacious, and generally chill - decent transport links too.
The departures lounge is starting to sprawl with retail now though, but can’t have everything I suppose.
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For celeb-spotting and transit links: London City Airport. It’s nice being able to check your bags and fuck off into Stratford for a few hours. It’s super expensive though.
For a chill experience: London Southend Airport. Not in London, but loads of seating, decent views across the tarmac, and loooaaads of room.
For getting lost: Washington Dulles. Christ that place was designed by Stevie Wonder in a house fire. The sheer number of destinations is wonderous though fair play, a great place to feel like a tiny cog in a huge machine.
I thought Dulles was basically just one long, straight line building
Back in 2012 my family and I flew home to the UK from Portugal and landed at London City.
We happened to be on the same flight as the UK Olympic athletics team. All super nice people. Better still, because of the athletes we got a priority passport control queue and the quickest baggage reclaim I’ve ever experienced - the bags were on the carousel before we even got there.
So, yeah, really enjoyed London City Airport but I definitely recommend flying with a team of Olympeans whenever possible.
In my limited experience I cannot stress enough how much I prefer small regional airports.
Walk in, bags checked and through security in 5 minutes, walk a short distance through an area that’s not crowded and not full of shops, and be seated near the gate with a coffee a few minutes later. After a short wait, because you don’t need to get there an hour or more early, walk across a bit of open tarmac to a plane that’s not bursting at the seams, then take off after hardly any taxiing. So good.
Portland, OR is easy and has some nice carpet
Doha and Bengaluru
Hollywood Burbank Airport
Its the only airport I’ve ever flown in or out of that lets you board an deplane from both the front and back doors on a 737.
Baggage claim is actually outdoors! You get your bag and are standing about 30 feet from the arrivals pickup road.
Its a fun small airport with a prime location.
Frankfurt International (FRA). As long as it’s not terminal 2 for American Airlines.
Never had long queues there. Always the cheapest flights. Solid choice of restaurant.
Just wish the signs for the monorail were more prominent and less confusing
Denver has quite a nice one. Or did last time I was through there, which to be fair was like 2002.
I like the Colorado Springs airport. Small lines and chill vibes.
Denver on a slow day, which is rare, and only for the weird airport lore, gargoyles and also Blucifer, the demon mustang with big ole blue balls and a huge asshole. The trams are really good, but everything else kinda sucks.
Thanks, I hate it
Tampa International Airport
I give thanks every time we land at home. Our airport is really awesome. Good layout, beautiful, long security line usually but otherwise so good.
Kansas City International Airport is now up there as one of the best! In my local opinion.
Now with gender neutral bathrooms. Which were surprisingly very nice. For an airport, it made sense.
