The World's Absolute Worst Airports
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Does anyone else think that Simon balancing all these channels is a megaproject? We need to see him do a video on that lol thanks for all the great content!!
It helps that he uses replicants. Allegedly.
@@paulherman5822 I bet he runs his own cloning lab to make all those replicates...
@@rachel_sj I've postulated for a while that he's the result of a secret UK experiment involving starfish DNA to pass on all the memories. Just cut off a part, grow a new Simon replicant. Allegedly. 🤫
@@paulherman5822 naw... it's all the cocaine he does... allegedly. Blaze on Simon!
I agree, lol! His channels and his amazing, "Fact Boy" knowledge is a Megaproject in itself 😁
I fly out of Laguardia at least once a month. Its STILL under construction, however its much better now than it was a couple years ago. Back in 2019, you'd have to give yourself extra time to catch your flight because the construction was so bad that even if you were running on time, you might miss a flight. In 2022... its pretty decent. The new terminals are really nice looking, although one annoying thing is that there is a terrible selection of restaurants and shops. I'm guessing they now have a special deal to keep out other chains because now its almost all "World Bean Coffee" and airport bars.
I always thought LAX is a crappy airport, but after watching these 10, I realized LAX is still a crappy airport
It’s getting a major face lift and by 2023, all 7 terminals will be connected.
Can confirm lol
Preaching to the choir here
@@alvarofavela2918 26 years after the increased security caused by 9/11 they decide not to dump people back out on the street and make them go back thru? Wow how timely.
I've only flown in and out of LAX twice and was lucky enough to not get a negative impression.
So to avoid bad airports without trying to memorize, don't connect through NYC-New Jersey, or France in general?
Orly Airport wasn't too bad in my one experience.
JFK in NYC ain't too awful. The layout sucks but it is easy to use and the staff is relatively friendly to disabled passengers.
Honestly Newark isn’t terrible if you know it. If you don’t though it could get annoying.
Toronto Canada too. They’re horrible.
I've always said I'm not afraid of flying. I'm afraid of airports.
At least if you go to IAH in Houston you can ride a train built by Wedway, a Walt Disney company.
Vientiane airport in Laos is a Soviet era concrete block with a hand stencilled sign showing items not to be taken on board as hand luggage. These include AK-47’s, hand grenades, machetes, spears and…. Durians!
A durian is scarier than a spear by some accounts.
@@Bacopa68 they’re a bit stinky it’s true. But they actually taste ok….
haha , Newark is the only airport ive seen someone breaking into a car in broad daylight in the airport parking area.
As a New Jerseyan I can confirm Newark Airport is a free-for-all nightmare. Pro tip: If you plan on using Newark go before the break of dawn. It will make things 1% better.
Now as for Newark... while waiting to board a flight to Kastrup/Copenhagen, a thunderstorm raged outside. Ceiling started dripping, then a seam opened up and before long we had the poor-man's version of the Singapore Changi indoor waterfall.
Bordeaux Marignac was the aerodrome from where the Luftwaffe flew Condors and Ju88s against Atlantic convoys in 1940 - 1944. Sounds like it hasn't changed much!
simon gave that outtro like somebody from the sudan was hunting him down lol
I once transferred in Dallas, immigration officer asks where I was going, I tell him that I'm going home to join my family for Xmas. He tells me; "I'll be the one who decides if you get to do that or not."
W.T.F.
Never flew over the USA ever again, ever.
Well, you’re just flying over, so who cares? And by all means, throw a fit because someone had a bad day
@@debbylou5729 You having one too? Seems you've taken my comment to heart more than me, so who cares? (you, apparently.)
@@lucth16 don’t flatter yourself….I’m embarrassed for you
Wow that’s not very nice. I would’ve said “thanks jerk!” After he sent me off.
I can't believe Addis Ababa didn't make the list. Their departure terminal is it huge two-story room with a bathroom on the end with no ceiling. Sort of like a slightly tall wall cubicle. Not only is there no cap on the thing you can see some urinals from inside the waiting area. My recollection is once you've gone through final security to the departure gate there are no restaurants or stores.
You haven't "lived" till running between gates in Atlanta, Georgia airport
Simon I am surprised you didn't have London Luton on this list. We all know how much you enjoy their car rental "village" and mingling with the staff getting off a 15 hour shift who just wont stop talking while you have to go 15 minutes to actually get a car rather than a desk in the airport.
OGBB!
when I had the misfortune of spending a night at Stansted you were still allowed to sleep - but because there was ongoing construction the floor in the check in area was the only option. It was very very drafty and I spent a week sick in bed afterwards. Thankfully it was my flight home and didn't ruin my vaccation
Yeah, I spent 18 hours there and it was rather terrible. Not as bad as the Charles DeGaulle airport though who somehow dodged getting on this list.
O'hare has my vote for hell on Earth. Getting from one gate to another is like training for the Olympics.
A late flight from Newark ended up making me miss a connecting flight…the airline ended up flying me to Las Vegas, putting me in a suite at the Luxor, and getting me a flight home the next day. 🤴
I travel regularly to Juba "International" Airport (South Sudan) in a humanitarian aid role and its ranked #1 worst for a reason..... Even in 2021...
Can you expound? What’s it like?
How fitting, I am trying to waste time in an airport.
Me too I'm working tho crazy slow today
Had a flight from Newark to Johannesburg about two weeks ago. Took off about two hours late on a united airlines flight. Did not have enough headsests for all the passangers onboard a 14 hour flight and the airport staff was basicly useless
How's South Africa? That's a place I'd probably never go, but there is so much cool wildlife down there. I bet its better than Newark.
LMAO 🤣😂
You seem like you had a lot of genuine passion behind this video.
That may be the quickest epilogue I have ever heard from you.
Thank you for being you, Factboy.
I once landed at Newark at 0800 and had to wait land-side until 1430 before I could drop my bags, check in and return airside for my next flight. 6.5hrs sat in a Wendy’s.
La Guardia needs to do the same thing Travis Air Force Base was doing a few years ago: Trained raptors were used to chase birds away from the flight lines. It was an idea that a service member who was a falconer came up with. Most of the raptors were peregrine falcons, and the idea worked very well. The raptors would be sent out to chase the birds away, then the planes would be able to take off with a minimum of bird strikes.
“Renovating that tent are they”😂😂
I bet if it were still open, Hong Kong Kaitak Airport would've been on this list. Can't beat an airport where you have an equal chance of crashing into a mountain or scraping the Kowloon Walled City on your landing approach.
The miracle on the Hudson was an emergency landing.
this is great !! Happy New Year Simon... and thanks to you and your people for these videos !!!
Raising awareness while raising children. Simon your a hero. (:
"That's not a bug, that's a feature." Best line of the video! 🤣
Happy new year Toptenz.
Swansea "International" Airport is utter shite. No public transport to the airport after 7pm, cab rides are super expensive, besides being flat broke (long time before instant money transfer). Ended up sleeping in a park in Swansea in early winter, got the earliest bus, slept in the airport for another few hours and got home. Landed in one of the best aiports in the world, Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam. The difference was insane and I realised how lucky I was to have Schiphol as my local airport.
Sad part is, is that was probably the most memorable part of your vacation or trip because of how bad it was.
"Renovating that tent are ya?" Thanks FactBoy I literally LOL on that 1
Newark is an airport I would rather eat glass than ever travel through there again. Disgustingly rude employees from the minute you land until you leave. I watched employees being rude to the elderly, to a disabled person and a foreign lady who was having trouble understand what was being asked of her. Let me add here .. I was behind this lady and I didn’t understand the gentleman either.
Merry New Year, Factboy.
Back when I was at university in the New York area in the early 1980s, I worked as an airport shuttle driver between terms. We went to all three NYC area airports. At the time, Newark wasn't bad. It was easy to navigate by car and was relatively low-trafffic. But it's bad now. I flew there recently, and the place was NOT designed for either the amount of traffic it now handles or post-9/11 security requirements. There's a major renovation under way, but for the time being that mostly means that you have to deal with both its inadequate facilities AND construction.
The volume of traffic is why flights are so often late. On arrival, the terminal was so clogged up we had to sit on the tarmac for nearly an hour before a gate was available.
JFK wasn't bad either, apart from getting there in the first place. But I hated, Hated, HATED LaGuardia. It had no redeeming features whatsoever.
Simon, your honest response to some of these airports is sooooooo incredible. :D
Haven't watched it yet, but if Manila isn't on there I'll be totally shocked!
Just for clarity, they have 3 terminals, but you can't get between them without leaving the airport and re-entering (taking a taxi between them). WTF is that about?
Just finished the video. Consider me shocked.
In his novel "the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul", Douglas Adams starts with: "it cannot be a coincidence that no language has an expression for 'as pretty as an airport'."
I flew to Canada via America from Melbourne and it was a nightmare. 3 airlines all stuffed up our flights, from stopping check-ins half way through the line in Sydney so the staff could go home early to flights being cancelled in LA because no flight maintenance had been done on a plane so the authorities stopped the flight. Each time I found a Qantas desk and they helped me just because I am an Aussie. They let me use their phone and fax and helped sort out flights and we weren't even flying with them. Bless their cotton socks!
How.. how was Logan Airport in Boston not on the list?? I've been through Logan many times during college and it's the most horribly labeled airport I've ever been to.. and I've traveled all over the world!
I definitely agree that that London airport has to be on the list.. just awful!
I had a connection through Logan once. I was told by the staff to cut through the parking garage to get from my arrival terminal to my next departure terminal because the people mover would take longer than I had time to catch my connection. I had 30 minutes -- which would be plenty of time even in larger airports with a more efficient system. How ridiculous is that?
Hope Simon does a Brain Blaze version of this list..
Yeah Newark sucks and always has. I was flying out of there a month ago and there were these people who were waiting by the gate for a flight that didn’t seem to exist. The airline wasn’t answering their customer service line, they had no gate agent, no plane, and nobody from the airport seemed to know that the flight wasn’t there, they just kept directing the people to the empty gate.
Yes Simon. Glad you figured out that Newark airport is the worst airport not just in New Jersey but in the whole United States. Flights are mostly delayed and not very business oriented looking. Happy New Year.
Not to mention that the TSA checkpoints take forever to get through, and the airport gouges you on food and beverages.
I'm always tempted to fly from Newark instead of JFK or LGA because it's always cheaper. Then I remember how awful it is and I gladly pay the extra for JFK.
It also has pigeons flying around inside
I fly out of Newark all the time. It really isn’t that bad. It’s definitely better than LaGuardia.
50 miles away is a remote location? Canadians: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That's my daily drive to work... and again to home.
We went to Beauvais and had huge jets roaring overhead all day. A cleaner threw my pudding in the bin.
The lighting for this video looks really good. Is this new or have I just been listening to top tenz and not physically watching for way too long
Simon trying hard to keep the Blaze out of his voice on his most serious and public facing channel is the entertainment I needed tonight.
I've never flown into Courchevel Airport, but let me tell you about Toncontin International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. In 1961, when I was 7, our family visited my dad's homeland of Costa Rica. One leg of our trip included a layover in Honduras. This was my first time flying, and maybe it's a good thing that at that age I didn't know how scared I should have been.
Toncontin is nestled in a mountain valley, similar to Courchevel. It has one runway. To land there, the plane must bank hard around a mountain. When I looked out the window on approach, all I saw was the ground. I remember ours was a prop plane. I can't imagine landing even a smallish jet there, but apparently they do.
may 6e air ports should have places where people can sleep -- like the inns of old. they should have spaces set aside where people can relax, charge their appliances, etc., at NO extra charge, given the exhor6itant fees air travelers are charged as it is. if you're going to provide a crappy air port and crappy air travel service as it is, then you should have to provide your customers with comforta6le accommodations -- at NO extra charge -- until they can get the hell out of there.
When an airport is a rotten tent in a warzone, it's probably best to not go there, not cos of the war issues, just the rotten tent issue... :P
GBY Simon!
Rocking those add lines faster and faster all the time Simon. Soon you'll be ripping them off like an auction caller lol
As a truck driver, the Newark NJ area sucks enough on its own. Lol
Quote by Douglas Adams: “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language...” “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "as pretty as an airport"
Get too much wind at Newark, which happens often, they have to ratchet down to 1 runway and every flight has a 3hr delay. They are currently building 2 more runways to alleviate this issue.
I love when you crack yourself up!
LAX should get an honorable mention.
More like a dishonorable mention.
I would also like to nominate Kodiak and DTW. Kodiak? Mess up? You're smacking a Mountain. DTW? If you've been there, you know. The same plywood and "We're renovating" signs have been there since 2002.
Three French airports and Newark, N.J. International - the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of bad airports!
Fact boi channeling his inner auctioneer in the outro. Love it.
An ad talking about intrusive ads, there needs to be a brain blaze on that
In 1980 when I was in the US military stationed in Germany I flew into Frankfurt on a commercial airline. There was a dedicated transit bus to tale us to our bases but my flight arrived to late and I missed the bus. I had to stay in the airport overnight. Nothing open for food or drink, not allowed to sleep or sit to long in one spot, and the scariest of all Politzi patrols with uzis and German shepards.
Love your channel. This comparison was of airports in completely different classes. Need to compare airports a lot more like eachother. You can’t rate an airport in the middle of the Alps vs NYC.
I fly through Denver more than any other airport, so going through Newark last summer was wild. Security took for-freaking-ever
Other CZcamsrs take breaks from their one channel for the holidays.
Simon the Legend plows straight through with his umpteen channels!
🥂🍾 Happy New Year's everyone!
Or recorded a bunch weeks ago...
@@soccerguy2433 either way I applaud his dedication to his channels because I have fresh entertainment over the holidays.
Well, Montréal Dorval airport is worthy of this list too. I come from the region, and went to many others in the world, and was always disappointed by my main airport with respect to the others I visited.
It was built at the end of the '30s, started operation on Sept. 1st, 1941. They keep shoving so much money in the renovation, and enlargement that it would have cost a lot lest to keep Mirabel Airport and give it an High speed link to Montreal.
It's a farce. The worst experience I've had, closely followed by Orly in Paris, but at least in Orly you can watch the planes without having to be a passenger waiting to get on one !
I would rather fly through through Trudeau than through Pearson, but, yep, Trudeau is bad too.
YESSSSS!! Simon almost turned this one into an off-the-rails Brain Blaze vid!! {0.o} 😆😂🤣
Speed talking 101 Simon! LOL
Love our two local airports (Battle Creek and Kalamazoo), and had a pretty good experience twice at Midway, although the moving walkway wasn't working.
LaGuardia airport is a challenging and fun airport to fly into, but the fun ends once you clear the runway and have to navigate the taxiways to the gate.
It is funny that you consider 50 miles a good chunk of land. That used to be my daily commute. In Texas that is considered very close. Now I live on Maui and 15 miles is considered far away. This still cracks me up after 4 years.
Airports are a pain in the arse quite frankly.
Gotta love the Condor Airport 😂 the number seven 3:16
Last time I flew was pre-9/11 and was out of Newark!! I don't remember any real issues about getting on the plane, but once there, a 'bad boy celeb wannabe' caused a four hour delay😡 While the plane prepped for take off...he was getting out of his seat, refused to comply with the staff and was smoking in the bathroom...just to scratch the surface. Back then there was not much policing going on at the airport, although if it had been somewhere other than Newark, there may have been a different response. At least now, that jerk would have been removed from the plane.
Gotta do the best ones next o.o
More videos like this please
Pro Tip: There is a business called AirAssist that is worldwide and meets you at the plane door; you could be in and out of LAX in 15 minutes.
To be specific, Juba Airport is in South Sudan.
Pro tip - Lesotho is pronounced La-Su-Tu
Ooooo you should do a Brain blaze on aviation misconceptions/myths
I used to work for a taxi and limo company in the NYC area. LaGuardia was the bane of everyone's existence.
Hey do a Simon Whistler top 10 fav vacation spots.
The best airports that I have ever had the pleasure of travelling through have all been in Asian countries. Narita & Haneda (Tokyo), Kansai International (Osaka), Incheon (Seoul) and Hong Kong have always been stress free, easy to navigate around and with incredibly polite and helpful staff.
I never had a problem with on time performance at Newark Airport
I have to say, Simon's beard is reaching epic status.
Talmudic Sages said, "The beard is the glory of a man's face." They obviously had Simon's magnificent whiskers in mind.
In 1981,Fling in a 747 We landed at Hong kong , we flew between skyscrapers banking and weaving Scary!. The pilot didn't warn us.
Try landing at the San Diego airport!
That was the fastest outro ever!
I like to see Simon loosening up on this channel, and throwing in a few comments.
How about a video of the best 10 airports?
Suggestion: The most dangerous airports.
San Diego International Airport, aka Lindbergh Field, has appeared on a list for such airports. It has just one runway for take offs and landings.
Was it just me, or did Simon just close this video like an auctioneer closing a sale? 🤔
Its not just these airports that suck where they. The areas they are in are also not so great.
In NZ, Auckland is probably the worst airport. Its runway is so ridiculously small but it’s basically our only good sized airport so Airbus A380s and Boeing 747’s are forced to land on runways with no room and this ends up with a terrifying landing as the plane has to almost scrape the water as it lands
today I found out Simon's top ten youtube channels. Number 1. Business Blaze. Am I right Danny.
Wrong. Brain Blaze is number 1
Just dropped my bf off at Newark, I can attest to this. His flight was delayed 2 hrs and just dropping him off was a total nightmare. The airport is designed terribly!! And it’s very confusing. The police do not help.
Working at an airport, i am terrified of flying. I see how aircraft are maintained. How irritated the common person is and then theres the TSA
I can't see air rage becoming less frequent until they get rid of the mask requirement ... if they ever do. I'm now driving everywhere for vacations rather than flying.
Nearly all aircraft are maintained properly. That's why it's so much safer to fly than it is to drive. I'm guessing you have no problem getting in your car and driving somewhere, which is the most dangerous thing most people will ever do.
Newark is a brilliant anagram.
You wouldn't know you were in France if the people weren't rude.
Try 8 hour layover in Windhoek. Shops were closed and they could not find the pilot for our flight out to Germany on air Namibia.