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Laguardia much worse. Someone above mentioned DeGaull. That place is like a giant ashtray that's never been cleaned. Awful b.o. Too

Agree with the earlier post re: DC - Reagan. But for funky mildew odor combined with roaches the size of small children, you can't beat Miami.

Paris-CDG catches hell from a lot of people and deservedly so (considering the partial collapse and associated deaths, etc), but frankly it's a walk in the park compared to some places.

Try spending a 10-hour layover in Nairobi. Mumbai is a close second, but at least a new airport is finally going up next door.

Brodson - I'll assume you're joking since the "new" Bangkok airport is fairly good. Much better than LAX, LHR, etc.

Philly has been my pet peeve for years. The Delta terminal, however, is now open; and the temporary walls and chutes are finally gone. It's still not on par with the better airports.

I signed up for the Delta club thing so I can avoid sitting and waiting in general areas of Miami, Newark and similar hell holes.

Some great airports are DTW, Pittsburgh and Houston. The regionals are some of the real sleepers: Allentown and Wilkes-Barre in PA, for example. Omaha has agreat little airport. Even Tampa and Orlando are better than average.

Internationally, I don't fly as much as a lot of you or as much as I use to. I did, however, have to fly from Moscow to Sochi on Siberian Airlines last year. I will never complain about a domestic flight again!

Thing about the NYC airports is they serve the function...you show up, you get on the plane you leave. Or you arrive, grab your bags and go. How nice does an airport really have to be?

And rebuilt the old Northwest terminal.

UAL has a few gates in the main terminal at LGA--and it sucks. That terminal was designed for 1960s aircraft and passenger loads and seems as like it hasn't been updated since. But now it accommodates probably three times as many passengers as it was designed to do. Really needs to be refurbished.

LGA is not a big airport, it's just really busy. I also think LGA itself has short-ish runways relative to bigger airports and cannot take planes bigger than a 757.

The USAir terminal at LGA is pretty nice, however. The Marine Terminal, where the Delta Shuttle departs, isn't great but it's nice to be separated from the rest of LGA.

Yeah, the US Air Terminal is nice and the Delta Terminal has just been renovated once you get past security and isn't all that bad. However, the Central Terminal is an absolute dump.

This is a joke, right? One of the nicest airports in the world. Puts every airport in the U.S. to shame.

You think Brodson has traveled out of his county?

I was surprised how bad Maui was. Figured they had enough flights coming in and out of there plus no real weather related maintenance to worry about that it'd be super nice but it looks like they haven't touched the inside since the early 80's.

Relatively speaking the airports aren't that bad. Go stand on a subway platform and you'll see rats and roaches. NYC is a dump.

Don't judge a book by it's cover, I think the same holds true for cities. Don't judge a town by it's airport. DTW is a nice airport but Detroit is super depressing and a shit hole. NYC has dumpy airports but it's a booming metropolis.