DISCUSS: Best Airport

[Manila-X]

What matter for a good airport is design, service and facilities

[hkskyline]

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[Captain Chaos]

Very fucking swish.

[The Phenom]

Originally Posted by Kailyas

1. ATLANTA, GA (ATL)
2. LONDON, GB (LHR)
3. TOKYO, JP (HND)
4. FRANKFURT, DE (FRA)
5. AMSTERDAM, NL (AMS)

Duesseldorf (DUS) and Copenhagen (CPH) are superior to Frankfurt (FRA) and Amsterdam (AMS) by a long shot IMO.

CDG, LHR and FRA are all lousy.

[Manila-X]

Beijing must have the best airport in the mainland.

[hkskyline]

Plenty of mainland cities have new airports nowadays. Guangzhou Baiyun is also an impressive facility. Even some of the secondary cities such as Qingdao and Jinan have new terminals.

[Captain Chaos]

So, Queenie's opening 'eafrow T5 today.

I can't help but think how Asia is building terminals with spectacular, beautiful, atmospheric, warm, inviting and spacious airport interiors, whilst Britain still manages to make a huge interior with a fair bit of colour look cramped, cold, grey, unwelcoming and boring.

Have a butcher's. Shame I reckon.



Maybe it's the low-slung floors and lack of greenery? Britain's famed for it's green, rolling landscapes, why ever didn't they try to recreate that impression inside with a few trees and plants?

[hkskyline]

T5 looks very business-like and functional. Perhaps suitable for London's image as a major financial centre.

[Captain Chaos]

Maybe. You could be right.

Something like T5's interior will date very quickly IMO. But a few plants to soften the greyness wouldn't go amiss and would make it a little less brutal.

[hkskyline]

It looks somewhat like Stansted ... very bright, spacious, and open. A few plants would be nice though.

[Shezan]

a Rome Leonardo Da Vinci International overview:





Thanks to:

[Skyprince]

I can see planes from Japan, Korea,

[Shezan]

Originally Posted by Skyprince

I can see planes from Japan, Korea,

exactly.

other widebodies aircraft in the pic are a 744 of Air China, an Aerolineas Argentinas A342 and a 77W of Pakistan International. the photo is just showing the Terminal C Satellite

[Galandar]

My ranking:

1) KUALA LUMPUR - amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
2) Seoul
3) Dubai (coming soon)

[gladisimo]

I'm sure this has been asked before, but which airport came up with the Beijing airport's kind of style of interior first?

It's not the first one I've seen that looks so similar to HK's.

[hkskyline]

Originally Posted by gladisimo

I'm sure this has been asked before, but which airport came up with the Beijing airport's kind of style of interior first?

It's not the first one I've seen that looks so similar to HK's.

Likely Stansted, which was designed by Foster and opened before HKIA.

[Manila-X]

Originally Posted by hkskyline

T5 looks very business-like and functional. Perhaps suitable for London's image as a major financial centre.

Other than Heathrow, isn't JFK getting ultramodern terminals as well?

[hkskyline]

Originally Posted by WANCH

Other than Heathrow, isn't JFK getting ultramodern terminals as well?

JFK has many terminals, and there is a mix of the good and the bad. The Delta terminal is deplorable. T1 and the new AA terminal is quite decent, while the oneworld T7 used by BA, Cathay, and Iberia is functionally decent. Jetblue's terminal is old but they're doing some renovations. Meanwhile, the TWA terminal remains abandoned but will soon form part of Jetblue's new terminal.

It's a mix. Transferring between terminals isn't easy. Yes, there is AirTrain, but hauling all that luggage in and out of buildings is not exactly a very pleasant experience.

[Tucancillo]

Best three choosing between the airports I've already used:

1) no doubt, Schipol
2) Orlando
3) Newark


Opinion after reading 10000s of messages in this site:
1) Singapore
2) Munich
3) Schipol

[Manila-X]

Originally Posted by hkskyline

JFK has many terminals, and there is a mix of the good and the bad. The Delta terminal is deplorable. T1 and the new AA terminal is quite decent, while the oneworld T7 used by BA, Cathay, and Iberia is functionally decent. Jetblue's terminal is old but they're doing some renovations. Meanwhile, the TWA terminal remains abandoned but will soon form part of Jetblue's new terminal.

It's a mix. Transferring between terminals isn't easy. Yes, there is AirTrain, but hauling all that luggage in and out of buildings is not exactly a very pleasant experience.

The Jet Blue terminal is the only one I've exited and entered with JFK. And despite of the Air Train I did had a hard time interchanging with my luggages.