Best/Worse Airports in the World and South Pacific

[mooingchicken]

Best/Worse Airports in the World and South Pacific as done by SleepinginAirports

Changi voted #1 again
Interestingly it ranks Adelaide as #2 in the south pacific.
Full list here World’s worst airports for 2015

 

[boomy]

Agree ADL is friendly airport to fly or connect from. Not sure why SYD was ranked before MEL or how did it even got into the top 10.

 

[RooFlyer]

Wow! I've done the #2 worst airport in the world (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia). Was a few years ago though; I don't recall anything out of the ordinary. Also #7 (Ho Chi Minh); don't remember that being too bad, either.

And next year I intend to do #4 (Tashkent). Glutton for punishment.

 

[Canny man]

Surprised at Vancouver. I haven't been that impressed and the Air Canada lounges are pathetic.

 

[Dr Ralph]

Been here:

8. Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)

It's basic but fine. No idea of the dodgy criteria they are using to make these claims.

 

[RooFlyer]

Surprised at Vancouver. I haven't been that impressed and the Air Canada lounges are pathetic.

I agree. Arriving international means a marathon walk to always very crowded immigration. Domestic to international a similar hike. Very poor signage throughout and 'information' desks who don't have a clue. They have a train to downtown at the terminal, but sort of forgot to enclose the outside elevated walkway to it properly (brrrrrr!).

Their facilities to deal with snow and ice are pathetic, leading to chaos when they get a real snowstorm. I always allow 4+ hours for transits to an outgoing international flight when leaving YVR in winter.

Air Canada lounges are pathetic everywhere, though.

 

[Mattg]

Surely Canberra International Airport beats the Gold Coast and various others on that list (for South Pacific)? CBR is actually quite nice.

 

[clazman]

AC lounge in Toronto is good

 

[kermatu]

Who actually determines these things??? Completely agree with other comments re Vancouver, and Canberra.

 

[boomy]

Who actually determines these things??? Completely agree with other comments re Vancouver, and Canberra.

Canberra should probably have some Int commercial flights first to get into that list.

 

[smit0847]

Stupid poll if MNL is not included in the worst. That place is hell on earth.

 

[erko_adam]

Stupid poll if MNL is not included in the worst. That place is hell on earth.

For sure! You know when the security are openly asking passengers for bribes to by-pass the long lines snaking outside the terminal you're seeing a great airport in operation. Not to mention the broom closet of a lounge. MNL my least fav airport I think.

 

[Cool Cat Phil]

Best/Worse Airports in the World and South Pacific as done by SleepinginAirports

Changi voted #1 again
Interestingly it ranks Adelaide as #2 in the south pacific.
Full list here World’s worst airports for 2015

Where on earth is the " Polling" taking place?

Clearly a dud analysis of global airports.

 

[Captain hum]

I'm amazed Hoskins 'airport' in PNG wasn't on the 'worst ' list....

 

[Boca68]

Surprised at Vancouver. I haven't been that impressed and the Air Canada lounges are pathetic.

Not sure you getting the gist of the poll and who did the polling.

The Guide to Sleeping in Airports is not really aimed at premium flyers. Most of the people surveyed probably would not even know that premium lounges exist.

Although it has have a piad lounge access section.

 

[Warks]

Cairo? Or has that improved? Can't imagine that Paris airport (#10) being worse than many in dodgier places.

 

[wandering_fred]

Maybe Jeddah has improved in the 30 years since I was there. After a while lounges tend to blur together.

I will agree that Cairo has been my least memorable. Though Budapest wasn't all that flash, but that was a few months before Malev disappeared.

A slightly more interesting question would be - What's the worst airport when you don't have a lounge to access. I'm sure that regional Australia (ALH comes to mind) would mostly fall in the rather basic category.

Happy wandering

Fred

 

[JohnK]

They polled 26,000 people. Hmmm.

I have slept in a number of airports including SIN, TPE, HKG, ATH, AKL, WLG.

I am not sure how MNL did not make the list of worst airports.

And the criteria for best airports must be weird if ZQN is rated above SYD. Nah, seriously?

 

[snabbu]

I'm amazed Hoskins 'airport' in PNG wasn't on the 'worst ' list....

No doubt there are some shockers in regional PNG. From memory MAG was little more than a classroom desk and a tin shed.

I'd guess these places aren't on the list as probably none of the 26,000 surveyed had ever been to remote airports like this.