Worst airports?

SFO is one of the best airports in the US and it's still a mess. The last major airport built in the US was Denver in 1995. That's 30 years...

Having lived in Boston and being a tech bro, I have had sooo much chowder at Yankee Pier in Terminal 3. I don't care if it wasn't really that good, i just drowned it in Da Bomb Beyond Insanity that once nearly got me arrested at the airport

that said, SFO really sucks because the runways are too close, so half the time they have to close one of them due to rain or fog or the like. gotta go at least business class so you get some drinks waiting on the tarmac hoping you're next to someone attractive and / or interesting

i had a good experience at Amsterdam Schiphol - but maybe that was because i was connecting on Alitalia to Milan which was awful minus the fact that i was in the middle of Milan with a gal that was... well i was punching above my weight

also - i thought Milwaukee was quite alright. IIRC it had a flight museum and a really cool used bookstore where i got a rare Henry Miller book. it likely changed since, but Milwaukee seems like one of those mid-major cities (think also Chattanooga and Boise) poised to push Seattle and Denver into the excluded middle (not as cool as NYC or SF but too expensive). Salt Lake City is an interesting one in that regard

speaking of, DIA was built for the future. things are starting to fill out. whether Federico Peña is still cashing fat checks, well, what would i do when i get there. and Blucifer is dope, and we all hope the Illuminati is down there

Atlanta blows Bill & Ted's era chunks, but i think that's more because I-75 makes me want to go full Waingro on the entire SEC

yeah, pretty bad although they did update one of the terminals

Pyongyang. Do not recommend. Would literally go anywhere else to avoid this one.

The one great thing about the Edinburgh airport is that getting through security was the fastest I have ever done, under a minute.

Ladakh (Leh) Airport in Jammu-Kashmir province in India could well be the worst. I don't recall there being much indoors. When the plane comes, there is a crush and you either make it on or you don't and are stuck another day or two up in the mountains.

Of course it does - they want to get you out of the airport and either to the Strip or downtown.

Or home, if you live in Vegas.

Those tiny airports have character. Flying to Ambergris Caye (back before they upgraded it) was wild. They would put their smallest adult passenger in the copilot seat (typically my wife). She would pray the pilot wouldn’t have a heart attack. The locals would bike along the runway since it was the smoothest road on the island. There would be stray dogs and chickens out there as well. There wasn’t an actual terminal building with seating inside, just a modular building with an overhang and some benches. Airport security was an overweight woman with sunglasses who would scowl at you. But everyone else was nice and the planes typically worked.

Any airport where they cram you on a bus to get to the terminal. International arrivals in HNL, DPS, NAIA. I've even been bused in NRT and LAX.

You select a seat near the front in biz class so you can beat the crowd to immigration and then get stuck on a bus with 50 other people.