Airports

[Tomoki]

What are you favourite airports?

I like our hometown airport in Frankfurt (Fraport). From the city it is only about 15 min. by train to the underground station of Fraport. Unfortunately you must pay for an extra zone, because the airport doesn’t belong to the city area of Frankfurt.

Frankfurt airport is big but not as big as London Heathrow or Chicago (what was the name of this airport?), where you are forced to walk a marathon.

A big plus for the luggage vans in Frankfurt. They’re for free and very stabile.

I don’t know, but it seems that Fraport is an eternal building site. They want to build and extra runway, but they aren’t allowed to. The traffic turns bigger though. This causes delays, especially inland flights. Good that I don’t use inland flights.

My other airport impressions are from Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago, London and Copenhagen.

The three airports in North America, which I have visited, are very clean and my impressions from Copenhagen are not that good, because it was 5 o’clock in the morning.

Tell me your impressions from airports.

Good flight, good night.

[darnymarfy]

are you a plane spotter?

my own private airport is my favourite...my mum designed it.

[Hiro]

Toronto airport is very nice and clean... The Vancouver airport, I recall, had a mandatory airport improvement fee of about $10 that I didn't much care for... but could do very little about (save the low-key bitter grumble about it)- No fee = no boarding priviledge...

Such is life and travel hitch (They neglected the Veg. meal as well... to which I could only laugh- They didn't ask me to remove the headphones at take-off... hehe... Somehow that made it all better... rise into the clouds- Disjecta style.)

Seems I'm always in sort of a haze in most airports... I regret this, as I would probably get a lot more out of a lesser dream-like gaze- Floating in and out of each new place.

Malta was funny- Lots of guns.

[Articulate]

i really like edmonton airport, such a nice futuristic place...heh
been there quite a long time,so...

[Tomoki]

Originally posted by darnymarfy
are you a plane spotter?

my own private airport is my favourite...my mum designed it.
My mom haven’t built it, it was me lol

It shouldn’t sound like this, sorry.

@Articulate Is Edmonton the place where the big, big shopping mall is?

[aleks]

singapore is pretty nice...on monday i´ll see what dubai is all about.

[Ruben A]

.. well, Copenhagen airport has been nominated to be the best in the whole world! When it comes to design, navigation, service, blabla..

When I visited Sonar this summer I must say Barcelona Airport was terrible! It took us (yes all of us from dk) about 45 mins. to get out of there!!!! Couldn´t find our luggage, no sings at all.. we had to walk thru the terminal 2 times and when we by a mistake went outside we couldn´t get in again? We had to show our pasport and tell the security-guys what the hell we were doing... then found it! Then some of my stuff was missing - took 15 mins to find that..
uhh.. And when we at least got outside the sun was shining... fuck.. couldn´t see anything for at least 20 minuts..or so..lol lol

[Articulate]

@Tomoki
yeah thats there. i've lived generally in calgary -
it's also full of malls.you won't get slimmer if you
want to go there...ehh

[namshub]

is there an airport on this earth with decent even edible cheap food.????

[c s]

københavn train station looks like a living room. i wonder if the airport is the same.

[phdbob]

you´ll find cool+cheap food in mumbai (workers cantine 2nd floor) and in bangkok...the best duty-free i ever had was in dubai...you´ll get from rolex to doublehouse size telescopes all a multimillionaire needs...

[M H]

Tomoki: Is there anywhere better to eat than that stupid card resterant in FFM? Had me totally baffled first time I was there and the food wasn't exactly great....

Gatwick is a bloody nightmare especially this time of year, loads of Muppet holidaymakers not knowing where they are going, standing in the way.... was a victim of the ATC strike (Well the knock on effect) the other week on the way to zurich, 30mins to check in and 30 mins to get thru passport control.....

Thankfully I travel out of Birmingham next friday, only an hour away from me as appose to 4 hours to heathrow...

And on to the most pointless airport:
East Midlands, total toytown package holiday airport, BMI don't seem to fly from there to anywhere in germany anymore, you have to go via Paris which is a total arse....only any good if you want to go to the costa brava....

[wheezer]

frankfurt is a horrible, horrible airport imho, poor organisation and ugly to boot - used to be I always wound up running through that thing for my connecting flight, though that has improved a bit.

helsinki is nice, they renovated the whole place recently and it really has a finnish touch while remaining "international" from the design side of things. oh, and no running.

I liked the brussels airport, though it had rather strange design as well in the sense that one wound up walking through some very loooong and empty hallways all the time. the new part is nice though.

atlanta is a nice BIG airport, with a internal metro line and everything.

but probably the best designed airport I've been to so far is travemünde, everything's so easy to find! lol

[Lady E]

berlin is the best designed airport

i like barcelona! ive never had any problems there

ive never liked frankfurt airport fter the first ever no future party in 1996 at the then auschwung ost club in kassel (later known as stammheim) we'd all been up all night doing Es and acid and the driver dropped us in the basement of the wrong terminal. we all thought we were going to die

i love Gatwick because it means im home...

[lucid rinehead]

scatsta airport (sullom voe, shetland) is great cause if you get the last flight of the day the food counter people have gone home and you get to eat the leftover sandwiches. plus its impossible to miss your flight cause theres only one room and one gate.

[Chejai]

Although I sound biased, the best has to be Chek Lap Kok.............that place is outraegous - one massive building that is so open and light that it seems to go on for ever...........kinda like Dr P's little fluffy clouds.

Worst - Manila. Hell hole. Avoid if at all possible.

[emef]

blackpool airport is brilliant....not much more than a few sheds and some hang gliders.

[t1na]

hrm ... securitate de la aeroporto!!
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berlin tegel is nice cause basically its really small and youre always gonna find your gate in time - BUT: from a girls point of view, it kinda sux - theres no real duty free. jaja, I know, that sounds tacky.
but when you think about it, you can save SHITLOADS of money if you buy all your cosmetics-stuff at a duty free. or presents for your girlfriend. duty free - wise I think vienna and zuerich rock, theres nothing they dont have, and besides that the airports are not TOO big so you dont get into trouble when you have to change planes. landing in zuerich always feels a bit like an adventure though.
frankfurt and heathrow are just tooo big and insanely expensive if you have to transfer and kill some hours of time. so they suck. basically.
JFK in New York City is like hell if you like to smoke cigarettes - first an 8hrs flight and then NO chance to smoke a cigarette until youre through emigrations, customs and all that. Everybody who plans to go to NYC should try to get a flight into Newark, its smaller and nearer to manhattan anyway (plus its in New Jersey, just so you have a chance to realize why the "nanny" is what/who she is while you drive through =)
the security-staff at the stuttgart-airport makes you take off your shoes and goes through your handluggage as if their lifes depend on it. the munich - airport is just downright ridiculous. bremen airport is for the romantic ones - you really feel like sophia loren in a b/w - movie when you step out of the plane and WALK on the runway to the airport-building. the airport - building of friedrichshafen is about as big as the train - station of hinterstinkenbrunn. so is the runway.
cologne/bonn is pretty cool as long as youre on a national flight. nice shops, but awful and unfriendly staff at the restaurant in terminal A/B. the new C/D terminal looks really cool in steel and glass and reminds of the Foster-terminal in frankfurt.
the only impression I remember of brussels was "small" and "70ies style".
amsterdam/schiphol is nice as well.
leipzig-airport is like friedrichshafen.
kopenhagen is thrilling the first time you get there cause you think landing takes place on the surface of the sea.
cant remember paris/cdg at all - sorry.
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if anybody could give me info on reykyavik/iceland, that would be cool. I really wanna go there for like a week or so. thx

[erik_s]

i love all airports especially the ones with atomatic trains, elevators etc. and i'd shure like to work at one.

[MUX]

i think my favorite was Toronto or Rotterdam.. but The Frankfurt one was so kool... and i like Heathrow's arrivals as well..

[c s]

i just saw malta airport in "Red Eagle" (1988) featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme. jcvd is a russian agent not saying a word in the whole film, just fighting hard. malta is described as a place "where spies from all over the world step on each others' feet" - true ?