All of New York's airports have issues, but even with corruption, JFK is the "least bad" of the bunch. LaGuardia doesn't even have a rail transit connection, and their limited runway capacity makes delays inevitable. The new terminals are nice, but the other half of the airport is still pretty abysmal. Newark looks like it was built by the Soviet Union, and has an illogical clustered runway layout that halves its potential capacity. JFK needs a facelift and a TSA expansion, but the terminals aren't too shabby, and the runway layout makes the most of the available space. It's salvageable airport, unlike Newark, which needs be completely demolished and rebuilt with a 3rd separated runway and new midfield terminals.
Minneapolis is definitely one of the nicest US airports I’ve been to! Would give it and a or b. I actually think LAX is improving. It’s still bad, but it’s getting there lol
Sky Harbor recently finished its Sky Train monorail which goes from the 44th and Washington light rail stop to the rental center and its completely free.
I personally believe the reason New Orleans hosted the most Superbowls is because the Airport is super easy to get to from the Superdome. Impossible to get lost.
The layout and design of ATL & its DEN twin are superior to every other one. Especially considering what its primary function was/is which is the transfer of passengers. By the millions. To present a form which is so straightforward (and repeated, thus reinforced) someone who has NEVER been on an airplane before can understand, someone who speaks ZERO English can understand, someone functionally illiterate can understand, is brilliant.
I think LAX is overhated. Its traffic problems can usually be voided by using the arrivals level (unless there is a sign that says to use arrivals where you should instead use departures).
I'd give MSP A or B tier. It is absolutely massive though, one of the biggest I've been in so it's tough for tight connexions. But it's in good condition and has great food options and relatively comfortable spots and usually enough spots to sit. I connect a lot through here living in Omaha and being a Delta medallion member and Canadian family so I'm in it a lot, I much prefer it to O'Hare, Denver (love the consoiracy theories though, just not enough food), and Detroit Wayne County when I have to connect. I agree with LGA, JFK (hated), BOS, DEN, DFW, SFO rankings.
MSP is definitely a nice, clean airport with (in my experience) very good food compared to the average airport. O'hare is not as good, but it has a direct CTA rail connection (MSP actually does have a light rail connection but light rail is not as good as full-on metro and because the twin cities network is much smaller than chicago's that connection means less) and still decent food options and general niceness. Slightly disappointed at the lack of Midway, which is actually of the two Chicago airports my favourite. Again good food, again direct CTA rail connection (the Blue line goes from the west into downtown and then northwest to O'hare, the Orange line goes from the downtown loop southwest to Midway, albeit with less service and older cars since the Blue line is getting the newly built 7000 series cars which are very nice), and just generally nicer, prettier, less crowded, and easier to get around, at least in my experience. That could just be because it's smaller though. MSP is honestly the top of the list for airports I've been through except Keflavik in Iceland which is just very very pleasant, but that might be nostalgia from when I lived there. They also renovated the shit terminal into the best terminal while I lived there so the biggest weak link was killed. All 3 (MSP, O'hare, Midway) are probably some of the best airports in the country for transit connections. (ORD and MDW are right up at the top with Dulles and Reagan obviously, while MSP is definitely below some other ones like LOG and SFO that have metro connections or PDX which only has light rail but the light rail network is more extensive there)
LGA needs to be connected to the NYC Subway like JFK does. Air train connection to Amtrak and NJT. JFK's connection to the NYC Subway and the LIRR is Via Air train. You don't have SAN and SFO in California, and PDX in Portland need to be placed in a tier list. The Oakland Airport also deserves to be on a tier list as well.
The one time I was in the Miami airport, I saw a dude walking barefoot with a shitstain on his paints through the airport. He looked so lost, it's burned into my memory
I'd rank "Boston" Manchester over Boston Logan if you're connecting through or catching a flight from somewhere in northern New England or even the outer Boston 'burbs, but being close to the city really puts Logan ahead if you're going TO Boston.
PDX easily best airport I've ever been in. Hate to say it, but MSP pretty good too. Dallas is/was terrible. Denver, not bad, but I can't put it too tier. Security has always been horrible when I've used it.
Newark an A? Im going to have to strongly disagree on that one. Ok the new Terminal A is much better the old terminal A but it only accounts for 25% of the gates. Terminal B was built in the 70s and is awful and Terminal C is OK but still is not an A-List terminal.. Also Newark airport workers including TSA are a bit rude and lazy and I lived there for the first 43 years of my life so im talking rude for even NJ,/NY I lived about 45 minutes from EWR and 1:15 from PHL and i still went to PHL unless the airfare was super cheap like during Southwest's failed experiment when i flew from EWR to AUS for $139 Round Trip. Though it is pretty easy to get to Manhattan with the Monorail to the train station which would take you to Penn station.. it was probably 45 minutes plus any time you waited for a train from the terminal to Penn Station. But not an A. It was a D before the new Terminal A and now i would say its a C
JFK should be D JUST based off of the mandatory nearly 10 dollar one way airtrain that it forces you to take to get to your terminal.
All of New York's airports have issues, but even with corruption, JFK is the "least bad" of the bunch.
LaGuardia doesn't even have a rail transit connection, and their limited runway capacity makes delays inevitable. The new terminals are nice, but the other half of the airport is still pretty abysmal.
Newark looks like it was built by the Soviet Union, and has an illogical clustered runway layout that halves its potential capacity.
JFK needs a facelift and a TSA expansion, but the terminals aren't too shabby, and the runway layout makes the most of the available space. It's salvageable airport, unlike Newark, which needs be completely demolished and rebuilt with a 3rd separated runway and new midfield terminals.
Minneapolis is definitely one of the nicest US airports I’ve been to! Would give it and a or b. I actually think LAX is improving. It’s still bad, but it’s getting there lol
Sky Harbor recently finished its Sky Train monorail which goes from the 44th and Washington light rail stop to the rental center and its completely free.
Plus, the Terminal 3 revision should change things. Additionally, they are building a new terminal to replace the old Terminal 2.
I personally believe the reason New Orleans hosted the most Superbowls is because the Airport is super easy to get to from the Superdome. Impossible to get lost.
The layout and design of ATL & its DEN twin are superior to every other one. Especially considering what its primary function was/is which is the transfer of passengers. By the millions. To present a form which is so straightforward (and repeated, thus reinforced) someone who has NEVER been on an airplane before can understand, someone who speaks ZERO English can understand, someone functionally illiterate can understand, is brilliant.
I think LAX is overhated. Its traffic problems can usually be voided by using the arrivals level (unless there is a sign that says to use arrivals where you should instead use departures).
I'd give MSP A or B tier. It is absolutely massive though, one of the biggest I've been in so it's tough for tight connexions. But it's in good condition and has great food options and relatively comfortable spots and usually enough spots to sit. I connect a lot through here living in Omaha and being a Delta medallion member and Canadian family so I'm in it a lot, I much prefer it to O'Hare, Denver (love the consoiracy theories though, just not enough food), and Detroit Wayne County when I have to connect.
I agree with LGA, JFK (hated), BOS, DEN, DFW, SFO rankings.
MSP is definitely a nice, clean airport with (in my experience) very good food compared to the average airport. O'hare is not as good, but it has a direct CTA rail connection (MSP actually does have a light rail connection but light rail is not as good as full-on metro and because the twin cities network is much smaller than chicago's that connection means less) and still decent food options and general niceness. Slightly disappointed at the lack of Midway, which is actually of the two Chicago airports my favourite. Again good food, again direct CTA rail connection (the Blue line goes from the west into downtown and then northwest to O'hare, the Orange line goes from the downtown loop southwest to Midway, albeit with less service and older cars since the Blue line is getting the newly built 7000 series cars which are very nice), and just generally nicer, prettier, less crowded, and easier to get around, at least in my experience. That could just be because it's smaller though. MSP is honestly the top of the list for airports I've been through except Keflavik in Iceland which is just very very pleasant, but that might be nostalgia from when I lived there. They also renovated the shit terminal into the best terminal while I lived there so the biggest weak link was killed. All 3 (MSP, O'hare, Midway) are probably some of the best airports in the country for transit connections. (ORD and MDW are right up at the top with Dulles and Reagan obviously, while MSP is definitely below some other ones like LOG and SFO that have metro connections or PDX which only has light rail but the light rail network is more extensive there)
LGA needs to be connected to the NYC Subway like JFK does. Air train connection to Amtrak and NJT. JFK's connection to the NYC Subway and the LIRR is Via Air train. You don't have SAN and SFO in California, and PDX in Portland need to be placed in a tier list. The Oakland Airport also deserves to be on a tier list as well.
The one time I was in the Miami airport, I saw a dude walking barefoot with a shitstain on his paints through the airport. He looked so lost, it's burned into my memory
MSP is no 1 airport in america
2:12 they extended the skytrain at PHX so no more buses
Yeah the mew Lagojrdia is really really cool.
I'd rank "Boston" Manchester over Boston Logan if you're connecting through or catching a flight from somewhere in northern New England or even the outer Boston 'burbs, but being close to the city really puts Logan ahead if you're going TO Boston.
PDX easily best airport I've ever been in. Hate to say it, but MSP pretty good too. Dallas is/was terrible. Denver, not bad, but I can't put it too tier. Security has always been horrible when I've used it.
How come no Detroit or Dulles?
Not enough traffic
@@GeoMeridium Really Detroit is Delta's 2nd largest hub.
You would probably put Lambert-St. Louis an A. It’s so easy.
O’hare is the grossest airport I’ve ever been. And I’ve been in so many of them.
Charlotte is hell.
The best airport in North America is Indianapolis
Newark an A? Im going to have to strongly disagree on that one. Ok the new Terminal A is much better the old terminal A but it only accounts for 25% of the gates. Terminal B was built in the 70s and is awful and Terminal C is OK but still is not an A-List terminal.. Also Newark airport workers including TSA are a bit rude and lazy and I lived there for the first 43 years of my life so im talking rude for even NJ,/NY I lived about 45 minutes from EWR and 1:15 from PHL and i still went to PHL unless the airfare was super cheap like during Southwest's failed experiment when i flew from EWR to AUS for $139 Round Trip. Though it is pretty easy to get to Manhattan with the Monorail to the train station which would take you to Penn station.. it was probably 45 minutes plus any time you waited for a train from the terminal to Penn Station.
But not an A. It was a D before the new Terminal A and now i would say its a C
phoenix airport is the worst and it is always my connecting flight from Cali
The Charlotte Airport is not big.
You have to love their three-letter designation.
let's rank airports you haven't been to... how does that make sense?
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