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Why Your Tiny Airport is Dreadful
This category of blog post usually features such large scale airports such as Heathrow, Lisbon, Newark, Miami etc. These airports are universally known and loathed in equal amounts. With big airports, come big problems, but as we recently learned, small airports can manage to create problems of their own. Historically, a small airport can be…
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Why Your Airport Sucks: Miami Edition
Miami International is a major regional hub for flights going and coming from Central and South America and the Caribbean. As such, you would expect it to be properly equipped to handle a large volume of passengers in a relatively efficient manner. As you will see, however, expectations are best kept low. It is logical…
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Why Your Airport Isn’t What it Used to Be: Denver Edition
The Denver International Airport as we know it today opened up back in 1995. It was located in the middle of Colorado farmland, very far from downtown Denver, or anything of interest for that matter. Like many airports that start from scratch, they sought to become a prototype for the “airport of the future.” For…
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Why Your Airport is Statistically the Worst . . . In the World
It is perhaps human nature to remember a bad experience much more clearly than a good one. When it comes to airports, it is difficult to stand out positively especially when a large number of people in those airports are miserable. Airports are crowded, noisy, anxiety-inducing places where by nature one must wait in multiple…
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Your Airport is So Terrible, It gets a Second Post
First off, there are no photos with this post because taking pictures at Newark could quickly result in someone trying to fight you. My hatred for Newark’s Liberty Airport is not a well-kept secret. And yet somehow, amazingly, it continues to find new ways to disappoint me. I had just finished recurrent training in the…
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Why Your Airport is . . . I’m Not Sure: Las Vegas Edition
McCarran Airport which serves Las Vegas has the distinction of being the USA’s eighth busiest airport in terms of passenger volume. This fact may not seem entirely impressive until you realize that Las Vegas is not a hub for any airline. While Allegiant has a very strong presence here, Allegiant is not a real airline…
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Why Your Airport Sucks: London Heathrow Edition
As a nonrev traveler, one’s plans often change, and although it may seem that we’re always able to pull something together, it isn’t always easy. When we got in line to check-in for Lufthansa to Frankfurt this week, we discovered that the flight had become oversold as well as pretty much every other European airline…
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Why Your Airport is Actually the Worst: Newark Edition
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything here, and much longer since I’ve submitted an entry into my “Airports that Suck” category. In the past, with Detroit and Cincinnati, I had expressed a lot of opinions. I am going to do something crazy here and just use cold hard facts . . .…
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Why Your Airport Sucks: Cincinnati Edition
This week’s trip marks my final trip out of Minneapolis and hopefully an end to the commuting issues and cold weather-related problems associated with it. I was lucky to not be strapped to the front of a 757 like last week’s commute. This time I got a seat in the back and was able to…
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Why Your Airport is Marginal at Best: Detroit Edition
This week, Detroit has become my de facto base. I didn’t even begin my trip in my real base of MSP. I bypassed the land up north entirely by catching a flight directly from LAX to Detroit instead of routing myself through Minneapolis. The downside to this was giving up a company-confirmed seat in the…
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