[DFG]

Study: The Best Airports for Stress-Free Travel in 2025

https://www.marketwatch.com/insurance-services/travel-insurance/best-airports-stress-free-travel/

Best:

#1 Minneapolis-St. Paul International #2 Phoenix Sky Harbor International #3 Salt Lake City International #4 Los Angeles International #5 Detroit Metro Wayne County

Worst:

#30 Dallas/Fort Worth International #29 Newark Liberty International #28 Charlotte Douglas International #27 George Bush Intercontinental/Houston #26 Miami International

[BipolarBob]

Eliminate the TSA and eliminate many problems. Let the airline do their own checks and quit separating me from my carry on luggage for no reason (other than to steal from it).

[DallasBiff]

DFW is a sprawling mess, with 5(soon to be 6) sprawling and massive terminals and American Airlines has no problem moving gates from one terminal to another(American basically owns terminals A,B, and C). That means if your flight's gate is changed to another terminal and one has to take the train(which breaks down often) to your new terminal.

They say get to the airport 2 hours before your flight, at DFW I would suggest 3 hours.

[blackdog]

That's by design. The WEF wants air travel for the deplorable serfs rationed to .5 flights per year. Of course charter exec jets exempt. The constant safety scares, mishaps, and Cattle treatment, is meant to dissuade public confidence to help with what the WEF says is "wasteful and unnecessary air travel at the expense of achieving climate goals"

Another of their plans is incremental taxing of air travel by taxing airfares based on the individual. Each flight in a 12 month period triggers an increasing tax for each one. Four flights in 12 months = a 400% tax. Two is a 200% tax. If you stay under the .5, there will be no added tax.

Of course private jets are exempt.

[Organic Panic]

When I would have layovers there I would just sit on the trolly and read.

Newark has to be the absolute worst. Just a disgusting mess that smells like a sewer.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

My wife’s niece flew me to NYC from Dallas FW airport. The most stressful time was the highway from her house to the airport.

On my return I flew from NYC to Atlanta then Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. Much less stress even in NYC.

[Larry Lucido]

"Flight 209 now arriving gate 8...gate 9...gate 10..."

[Blueflag]

Putting los angeles on that list is a joke.

You don’t have to take the horribly.Long walks in dfw if you take the tram. Otherwise it’s no worse than Detroit or Newark.Or atlanta a lot of airports have long walks big deal.

I’m a spoiled traveler though I just go to the delta skylounge and everything is good

[9422WMR]

MIA should be at top of the list for worst airport.
Never have I had to deal with more privileged ghetto rats in TSA.
So glad I retired from the travel nightmare. 35 years of travel and it went downhill fast after 2001.

[Señor Presidente]

#30 Dallas/Fort Worth International
Had my worst flight experience ever while connecting through DFW once. Friday evening flight on American Airlines. Maintenance needed on plane. Delayed, delayed, delayed...suprise! Flight finally cancelled at 11pm because PTI would not be open when we got there. They decided to offload luggage outside the security perimeter. Went out to get it, couldn’t get back in. “Slept” in airport chapel until 5am alternate flight to....

#28 Charlotte Douglas International
It must be a rule at this airport that your connecting flight will be at the farthest terminal from where you arrive. Be ready to hustle.

[mfish13]

Skylink is fast and efficient at DFW. 15 minutes to the farthest terminal. Go up the escalators to Skylink.