Posted on 08/09/2019 10:11:38 AM PDT by C19fan
The best and worst US airports for 2019 have been revealed - and it's San Diego International in the number one spot.
A new study ranks 50 of the busiest hubs in America, taking into account the following factors - airport amenities, how quickly the airport can be reached and the punctuality of departures and arrivals.
Coming second in the list is Phoenix Sky Harbor International - which was top last year - with Chicago Midway International rooted at the bottom.
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the fighter jets sre doing flights in and out of there regularly.
No sympathy if you move into the flight path.
If you were there first the country should buy you out. Or as west of Ontario airport pay for home improvements to lessen impact.
I remember when El Toro was closing and OC voted to not use it as a new larger airport. Their airport is small and locked in and has a flight curfew at night. But the voters said no and one county supervisor said we’ll go to LAX and ruin their environment. LA should charge OC flyers a surtax as a consequence of not expanding their own airport.
San Diego is a pretty awesome airport...
I 100% agree with you on hating when I have to use Atlanta airport. But I give them major kudos for how efficient they are (at least when I've been there) relative to the tons of planes that takeoff and land there. I don't know how they can improve on it and have that much traffic.
Newark is a horrible airport. On certain flights transferring from domestic to the international terminal, you have to ride a craphole bus, then climb up mold asbestos filled stairs. No elevator.
Freaky flying into SD, plane going between the skyscrapers.
1. If you're traveling to/from most major destinations in New York City, Newark (New Jersey) is actually more convenient than either of the two major NYC airports (JFK or LaGuardia).
2. Newark Airport is surrounded by plenty of highways. Some of them are old and decrepit, but they tend to be mostly uncongested outside peak commuter travel periods.
3. The airport consistently ranks among the worst in the nation for on-time performance, but this can be attributed to the complex regulations and the flight paths in the busy airspace around NYC and not the airport operations themselves.
Personally, I would rather fly in and out of Newark a dozen times before I flew out of JFK or LaGuardia even once.
“The Points Guy also claims that it is not convenient to get to from downtown Chicago, despite its location within the city.”
While that may be true for Midway airport, O’Hare is a much heavier used Chicago airport and you can take trains from O’Hare directly to downtown Chicago. On the other hand, the one strange (to me) fact about that is those trains do not get you direct access to the main (Amtrak) terminal in Chicago (you have get off the train from the airport and walk or cab to the Amtrak terminal). (In other words the train system in Chicago is not very integrated - compared to New York where the subway train system provides access to both major long-distance train terminals in Manhattan - both Penn Station and Grand Central Station.)
Ahhh name changing/multiple names. Do any come close to Orange County/John Wayne/Santa Ana airport???
Flying into Minneapolis Sunday morning. Never been there before??? Am I going to see a lot of burkas???? I’ll be good.:<))))
How in the heck can SEA be named as 6th best?? That does not say much for the rest of the airports, in my opinion.
Knoxville (TYS) is wonderfully easy to navigate,
it is only regional, but In 2017
the airport handled 1,988,019 passengers
Security lines: nonexistent at both airports.
San Jose awful for loading and unloading, car rentals miles and miles away and no way possible to return to pick up passengers with bags.
Curbside loading/unloading near to impossible!
If you have a broken leg, ankle or other requiring crutches and/or air casts, it’s a nightmare at Atlanta airport. I could have worn a burka or bomb vest and security staff would have been less restrictive. I must have given off security alarms there.
Security lines at same, are the equivalent of small towns or not so small towns.
Dittos needing to have crutches, etc. and all major airports (save KCI and Monterey, CA) treat elderly, especially handicapped persons might as well wear head scarves with visible bomb vests, so far as airline personnel are concerned.
TSA in Pittsburgh is nowhere near the ordeal of Philly, perhaps because they employ locals instead of affirmative action hires in burqas!
Pittsburgh was considered one of the best in the country before 9-11 because it has a world class shopping mall and restaurants which are competitively priced. Some of that has survived and it is nice to pay normal rather than rip-off prices if there is something you forgot to pack.
I agree with Chicago MDW being rock bottom for the reasons mentioned. But this should be tempered by the fact that most flight changes are minimal thanks to Southwest owning most of the gates, so your time in "Calcutta on Lake Michigan" is very limited.
Haven't flow into San Diego since 2001, but 60-70 times between 1968 and 2001... Always enjoyed the thrill of looking into the office building and a hotel windows on that final approach...
I won’t argue with them on Kansas City International. Designed at a time when one could walk from the curb to the gate the current security makes for overcrowded waiting areas and few facilities. A new terminal is under construction which should make a world of difference and raise the airport’s rating considerably.
The ballistic take offs from John Wayne can be exciting if you don't pay attention to the pilot's warning you about them...
Ping
All southwest gates in terminal 1, make it madhouse. They re-built terminal two now they need the same with 1. Never saw so much of aline at a mens rest room.
But still the location means expansion limited. Need Mira Mar
Kansas City comes in at #40 and they are busy building a new terminal right now. It will be terrible. The airport authority want a terminal with a single security checkpoint and a mini mall providing kick backs to the city.
Back when I was a road warrior, I could get to the gate while they were making the final boarding announcement, get through security (one security checkpoint per two-four gates) and onto the flight as they close the door. On the return, if I got an upgrade, I could be in my car and on the access road before the airplane had finished off boarding. All of that goes away, and we will get to enjoy Atlanta style security checkpoint. Get there early.
Kansas City comes in at #40 and they are busy building a new terminal right now. It will be terrible. The airport authority want a terminal with a single security checkpoint and a mini mall providing kick backs to the city.
Back when I was a road warrior, I could get to the gate while they were making the final boarding announcement, get through security (one security checkpoint per two-four gates) and onto the flight as they close the door. On the return, if I got an upgrade, I could be in my car and on the access road before the airplane had finished off boarding. All of that goes away, and we will get to enjoy Atlanta style security checkpoint. Get there early.
Our family lawyer was an army air force general in WWII and I remember him talking about airport safety in the USA. One time he said that Lindbergh Field was the most dangerous in the country due to its location at sea level between the ocean and the mesa. Of course I ended up stationed there and it was my CONUS home for four years and flew in and out frequently. I stayed there after active duty almost two years and one of the apartments I lived in was located in the Hillcrest neighborhood, home of the zoo and just uphill from the airport. In fact, they flew right over our place all day and half the night on their approaches. The deal was you are descending over the high desert mesa and have to almost dive to sea level in a real short space and not much time so it was full flaps and full throttle. These jets seemed like they cleared the roof of our building by less than 100 feet. Around 1978 I was working in a TV newsroom in Baltimore and saw some familiar real estate out of the corner of my eye on one of the network monitors. It was the block where our San Diego apartment building was located and there were beaucoup fire trucks and ambulances and smoke everywhere. A passenger jet had collided with a small private plane and the jet went down with all souls gone.
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