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Posted 14 December 2006 - 06:31 PM
A nice series of pictures originally posted by Chinawhite
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Posted 20 December 2006 - 07:06 AM
I've been to about a dozen airports around the world. If I were to rate the ones in Asia & North America, it'd look something like this:
Grade A (excellent): Changi (Singapore) & KLIA (KL Malaysia)
Grade B (good): TPE (Taipei), YVR (Vancouver)
Grade C (okay): ONT (Ontario), SAT (San Antonio TX)
Grade D (bad): NRT (Narita, Japan), SNA (John Wayne/OC)
Grade F (flunk): LAX International (Los Angeles)
Yes folks, Los Angeles International Airport, specifically Tom Bradley International Terminal, is among the WORST in the world. The drive sucks, parking sucks, terminal sucks, and the food/drink is overpriced and sucks.
In comparison, a visit to Changi or KLIA is a nice, pleasent experience, though the food at KLIA is really expensive by local standards. Walking around KLIA is like being inside a shopping mall. Changi has a hotel attached so you don't have to be a gold-club member to some airline just to get a bed for transit flights. TPE's food is not too expensive and actually taste pretty good, but I wish they had more shops and internet terminals.
SNA's airport terminal is not that bad, though the roads are really confusing on the way out. However taking a flight out of this airport is quite an adventure. This airport has one of the shortest runways for international airports in the US, and due to noise restrictions, aircraft taking off from here has to gun its engines at full power on breaks, then release breaks and scream down the runway into a steep climb over newport bay.
Grade A (excellent): Changi (Singapore) & KLIA (KL Malaysia)
Grade B (good): TPE (Taipei), YVR (Vancouver)
Grade C (okay): ONT (Ontario), SAT (San Antonio TX)
Grade D (bad): NRT (Narita, Japan), SNA (John Wayne/OC)
Grade F (flunk): LAX International (Los Angeles)
Yes folks, Los Angeles International Airport, specifically Tom Bradley International Terminal, is among the WORST in the world. The drive sucks, parking sucks, terminal sucks, and the food/drink is overpriced and sucks.
In comparison, a visit to Changi or KLIA is a nice, pleasent experience, though the food at KLIA is really expensive by local standards. Walking around KLIA is like being inside a shopping mall. Changi has a hotel attached so you don't have to be a gold-club member to some airline just to get a bed for transit flights. TPE's food is not too expensive and actually taste pretty good, but I wish they had more shops and internet terminals.
SNA's airport terminal is not that bad, though the roads are really confusing on the way out. However taking a flight out of this airport is quite an adventure. This airport has one of the shortest runways for international airports in the US, and due to noise restrictions, aircraft taking off from here has to gun its engines at full power on breaks, then release breaks and scream down the runway into a steep climb over newport bay.
This post has been edited by adeptitus: 20 December 2006 - 07:12 AM
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