Worst airports?

The last time was about ten years ago. My flight got cancelled last minute. I rebooked for the early flight the next day. The dining options were extremely limited. Got kicked out of the terminal when the airport closed for the night. Slept on the floor by check in rather than the cheap hotel in East LA the airport was offering for five hours). It was probably the worst travel experience of my life. Doesn’t help it is in the Inland Empire, which is where all the pollution from LA ends up and all the addicts come to do drugs in the desert. Haven’t been back since. East LA is still a pit.

How so? I've been to airports in Shanghai, Chengdu, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou in the past few years. They were all pretty nice.

Newark airport. Worst airport on the entire planet-- anyone who has been knows that there is no competition.

I just came from Shanghai Airport as well, and it was surprisingly nice.

Uh, Ontario is no where near East L.A.

Hard to take you seriously when you don't understand the local geography.

If Ontario is East L.A. I suppose that means where I am in OC is East L.A. too, since it is both east of L.A. and in a completely different county.

And Harrison Ford.

Other problems with John Wayne:

Landing - always been turbulence on approach + the 405 looks scary close going over it.

Takeoff - Pilot shuts off engines until plane gets over the ocean.

Hard to walk to the streets - no good signage. I once got lost in the parking garage for an hour before realizing I had to go another way to reach MacArthur.

Only one municipal bus serves the airport and it runs infrequently, like the route was made with KSNA as an afterthought.

I travel internationally for work 2-3 times a month. My home airport in Nashville, TN, sucks. The terminals themselves are nice and there's plenty of bars and stuff, but getting in and out of the airport with ubers, dropoffs, pickups, etc is a freaking nightmare. Google all the traffic issues that airport has had over the years. People getting OUT of cars 2+ miles away from the airport ON THE INTERSTATE if there's a fender bender near the airport.

Newark, Dulles and Charlotte suck too.

I once got out of a jet down the gangway steps, walking across the tarmac to the terminal when a railroad style stop bar kept us from crossing so a Cesna could go out of the runway

London Heathrow. Old, crowded, dirty , smells like body odor with perfume, overpriced. London Heathrow is what GB is , not what old school England was suppose to be.

Newark

Pittsburgh

Dulles

Oakland

Milwaukee

John Wayne is fine, other than you can drive right past it without realizing it’s an airport. It looks like any other office building.

If I ever fly with Ford, I want one of those inflatable rafts from Temple of Doom.

It’s wedged between East LA and San Bernardino. It’s lovely if you enjoy smog, pawn shops, budget motels and having your car stolen. John Wayne is more South of LA, which is the better part of the area and closer to the beach. Honestly, LAX isn’t bad other than the traffic. Nice thing about LAX is if you can go to the beach to pass time before your flight. San Diego is nice in that regard, as well.

Wedged?

What about the San Gabriel Valley between East L.A. and Ontario, and most of the IE between Ontario and San Bernardino.

Please don't tell me you are calling OC South Los Angeles.

Um, in theory - but you had better have a night flight.

This might work for a tourist with a tight schedule, but I'd recommend the beach day not be the day of flight, especially out of LAX.

You might be able to swing this flying out of Long Beach, but I have missed a flight there too, and I am a local.

I consider north to the valley, east to the inland empire and south to Camp Pendleton to be part of the Greater Los Angeles metro, and I’m not the only one.

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I consider LAX, Orange County, Ontario and Burbank to be Los Angeles airports. I would include Santa Ana in South LA (although distinct from South Central LA).