Posted on 06/26/2025 8:05:59 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
For many people, a trip to the airport is simply a means to an end. Whether you're traveling for vacation or business, you'll need to catch your flight in order to get there - and that's where the airport comes in.
All airports have the same goal, but any traveler knows that all of them aren't created equally. Some airports are sprawling ecosystems with multiple terminals and acres of space, while others can be traversed entirely on foot.
One airport may have more opportunities for scenic views, while others offer better food options. The Washington Post recently ranked the best airports in the country, and the No. 1 choice passed nearly every test with flying colors.
The Post ranked Portland's International Airport (PDX) as the top airport in America.
The airport was praised for its architecture, including the massive video walls that line the terminal space. Stadium-style seating wood benches offer a holistic view of the terminal, allowing observers to see most of the foot traffic in the busy space.......
Other top airports on the list include Long Beach Airport in California, Washington D.C.'s Reagan National Airport, the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport and Seattle's Paine Field International Airport.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
I am at pdx this very second on trip back from Istanbul. DEI garbage all over the place but a decent experience
No other option for me, five hour drive to 70% trump voting county
I don’t fly enough to attempt to name “best”, but that’s a pretty decent airport.
Miami and Atlanta are the worst.
I had a connecting flight in San Francisco a couple years ago and I was shocked at the opulence of the mens room.
Do they have “Glory Holes” there?
Notice that they’re all airports in leftist cities.
You have to be in shape to travel these days.
Portland’s airport is not large in comparison to many others, but it is pretty modern, does some things very well - ease of indoor movement from terminal to both car rental and parking, a good amount of shopping and eateries, good layout of gates and waiting areas, easy in out driving access to highways.
I use to go further south, to John Wayne in Orange County. Found the drive up was more pleasant than the direct traffic around Long Beach or LAX.
I hope you take this in the joking spirit intended: get some good hash???
Bradley International (Hartford/Springfield) is ranked in the top 10. A smallish airport, but it is nice.
“Yes. Long Beach is great. Palm Springs and Ontario are great too.”
Because most family and friends out there are in the “Inland Empire”, I use Ontario most frequently. Years ago when more of my California travel was business, I’d fly in out of John Wayne (in Santa), then take lodging in either Diamond Bar or San Dimas. From there I could get to any appointments, or friend or family visits north and/or south and/or east and/or wrest of there and still get back to my bed at a decent hour.
LOL! Excellent! I think you’re right.
Tweed is a nice little airport. Avalon has a base there and Breeze flies out of it...Most airlines it ever had...
A five hour drive to vote? That isn't normal. I assume you're not black, or you'd have already claimed racism over it.
Newark didn’t make it?
I liked Reagan National, within walking distance of anywhere I needed to go, and the NASA store always had cool stuff.
I flew out of the old Stapleton Airport in Denver once. That was a weird place. The runways were overpasses over I-70. You're driving along, and all of a sudden there's a big ol' airliner going right over you. Denver International is just big. Nothing really noteworthy except "Bluecifer", the demon horse sculpture who killed its designer.
Hartsfield, Atlanta, whatever they're calling it now, too many times to admit. BUT, here's some interesting trivia, that no one knows. In the '80s, Spirit of Atlanta Drum & Bugle Corps used to rehearse in an abandoned area of that airport. Painted a field in a parking area, and that's where we had our Everydays.
Somehow we were never caught, or told to leave or anything.
I remember LAX 1958. Ground level concourse. Go just about anywhere. DC-4, DC-6, Lockheed Constellations, Convair 340/440.
Clearly you have not been to Detroit’s McNamara Terminal if this was enough to make you ROFLMAO. 😆
Maybe it was a one-letter typo: “The Washington Post Named...” should have read “The Washington Post Names...”
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