dcfc2007 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 What is the worse airport you have ever been to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murchie Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Can't remember the name but some good forsaken place in Uzbekistan, was like stepping back 50 years in time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 The Banjul one in The Gambia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigstuy75 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Manchester 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldylocks Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 I hate flying from luton. Although its my nearest airport. Poxy checkin and immigration its abysmal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcfc2007 Posted September 9, 2018 Author Share Posted September 9, 2018 Abu Dhabi. Overcrowded, filthy toilets, long qeues at security. Hellhole. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWA Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Some old Eastern Europe one - no baggage carousels and the bags were just dumped on benches surrounding the arrivals area, which was a tent where they rolled the sides up to let a breeze in. No toilets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lantern Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Mt. Hagen. The dunnys there were 2'' deep in piss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqualung Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Kiev . But that was 11 years ago . But fit female immigration officers . A smile wouldn't have gone amiss . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelers4Life Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Sangster International Airport near Montego Bay, Jamaica. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai Spice Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 CDG 1 looked "modern" at its creation, but not very convenient.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinoydave Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Sharm El Sheik ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britboy Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Pyongyang - what a dump, plus they stole all our spare parts, scopes, teletypes, circuit boards and test equipment after we checked everything in. Baghdad - A BA 747, no seat allocation and overbooked. When boarding called, hundreds of people scrambled to the double doors to get on Thank God my engineer and I got on it. Many didn't. Both of these in the early 80's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightcrawler Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Bucharest, Romania Flew with Tarom, years ago. Coming back, connection wasn't there, freezing cold, had to sit on the floor and everything closed for buying food. 6 hours later, and a vile looking bread roll full of measle meat, the plane ready for boarding but over booked. No body in the airport knew what was going on and hardly spoke a word of English. Boarded in the end then sat on the plane for another hour while they de- iced. Truly a journey from hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxyhog Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 6 minutes ago, Nightcrawler said: Bucharest, Romania Flew with Tarom, years ago. Coming back, connection wasn't there, freezing cold, had to sit on the floor and everything closed for buying food. 6 hours later, and a vile looking bread roll full of measle meat, the plane ready for boarding but over booked. No body in the airport knew what was going on and hardly spoke a word of English. Boarded in the end then sat on the plane for another hour while they de- iced. Truly a journey from hell. I've been to Bucharest a lot in the last few years & am happy to say it's improved considerably. For me the worst was Dhahran 1980-82 but only on the way in as I was usually drunk & it took so long that by the time I got through I had a hangover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RR007 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 (edited) Tashkent in Uzbekistan having flown on the national carrier Massive great holes in concourses sort of roped off lol. We got upgraded by some fluke so we got lounge pass in Tashkent as well which was the normal transit lounge but with a black curtain which sectioned off a small area lol with some drinks and some sort of snacks Wreckage of miltary vehicles were littered everywhere by runway. Not that long ago 1994 Edited August 21, 2020 by RR007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freee!! Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Worst airport I ever experienced (and even more than once) was Paris CdG, since the last time I am prepared to pay extra to avoid it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bexwell Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Mumbai when I was there 12 years ago, I got stuck there for 12 hours, for about 8 hours it seemed like I was the only passenger in the airport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butch Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Dalaman turkey. £20 for a Mcdonalds. Thieving wankers. Bombay International in 1995. Say no more. Utter utter dump of the highest order. Absolute shithole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxyhog Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 3 hours ago, Freee!! said: Worst airport I ever experienced (and even more than once) was Paris CdG, since the last time I am prepared to pay extra to avoid it. I was there(in Paris) for 6 weeks in 1995 working & I discovered an underground restaurant at CDG which I think was for staff but nobody stopped me going in there. Cheapest beer I found in Paris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freee!! Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 4 hours ago, coxyhog said: Cheapest beer I found in Paris. Hardly a recommendation as far as I am concerned, beer is just extremely immature whisky (and French whisky is a class apart ... as disaster). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Belfast harbour about 35 years ago. A bit like a set from a WW2 film. I used worry about getting a taxi from central Belfast to the Airport with my English accent and the fact that the taxi drivers were wearing black balaclava hoods. I made that last bit up. 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 (edited) The worst for me has to be Lower Loon Creek on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho, US. Technically, this is more of an air "strip"...a backcountry airstrip. In the mid 1990s when I worked as a river guide I'd sometimes fly in or out depending on our trip staffing needs. Gorgeous spot smack in the middle of a road-less wilderness area. The only drawback was it's short runway with a ski jump end of the tarmac directly facing the opposite side of the canyon. Planes crash on a regular basis in the Idaho backcountry...so it could be a little nerve racking looking at the canyon during take off. Edited August 22, 2020 by lazarus 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWA Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 16 hours ago, Britboy said: Baghdad - A BA 747, no seat allocation . . . . Made me think of an Air Scotland flight years ago where we had seats allocated that didn't actually exist on the plane! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegrogmonster Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 I may be lucky but have never experienced a bad airport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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