Worst airports?

Have you been to the US???

Other than Hong Kong and Beijing, everything else in China sucks really BAD!

Ontario.

I use CDG a lot and I agree with you. You forgot the homeless dudes hanging around in the terminal asking people for money and bothering women which the gendarmes or airport version of the gendarmes do nothing about. Have you ever tried to park there? Theres some kind of twilight zone between T2 A and E or similar which is like the Schrodingers Cat of floor levels.

BUT...I fly to Edinburgh from CDG and back. That surely is the journey from hell. Edinburgh is the one airport which can mount a serious challenge to CDG on all your markers. You arrive. You walk a mile and enter through a tiny door in a random wall. Upstairs for 3 minutes, onto a featureless corridor, then downstairs, then back up and then another long corridor. Then wait an hour for the luggage handlers to resume work and actually unload the luggage from the plane. Onto passport control, conveniently arranged for the airport staff so that 3 loaded flights from Spain all land at the same time with only 2 border control staff for everyone. You queue for 90 minutes, then if you are lucky, you can join the queue for the bus or the endless taxi queue.

So layout: worse than CDG even though much smaller.

Inefficiency: Staff can't be bothered to work so its set up for their convenience on the rare days they aren't wfh. There are actually managers who specialise in this sort of thing paid a lot of money to produce these kind of systems. Its the same management ethos thats producing the much delayed ferries...

Angry people: If you haven't been shouted sorry barked at by a wannabee member of the Stasi at Edinburgh Airport, have you even been allowed into Scotland? Don't get confused and stand in the wrong queue - you'll get both barrels of the h&s lecture, at full volume, complete with "are you listening to me?" prompts and an exam at the end.

Filthy: chewing gum stamped into the floor along with grime. It makes CDG look clean.

Taronno (Toronto) is pretty bad too.

Is that why people drive all the way out there to avoid LAX?

It’s like the Waffle House of Airports.

Don't what that means - there are no Waffle Houses in California.

I used the Newark airport a few months ago. That thing needs to be demolished.

Why didn't France and England attack Germany in WWII., My great grandpa and uncles were attack soldiers while France and England sandbagged the whole war.

I thought the same. I’m glad someone else “got it”

O'Hare

Los Angeles LAX is terrible. Known as the world's busiest Anchor airport. The 8 terminals are 9 level buildings, 2 underground, 7 above ground, 1 mile long by 1/2 mile wide. LAX is the only airport in the world with 4 two-mile long runways. It's a hell hole.

France was occupied during the war, both their homeland and colonies such as Morocco.

There was a resistance movement which got support from Allies.

England had its hands full defending their island.

Hitler probably should have gone forward with Sea Lion (German invasion of the British Isles) but he hoped to work with the Brits and had his mind on the main objective - Russia.

England did support the war effort - never heard of Montgomery at El Alamein?

There were British troops in the Pacific theatre - they had an extensive empire.

So, I don't know why your great grandpa and uncles didn't see much action.

Maybe their units were needed at home.

That's a lie they made in in Hollywood.

And, England did eventually invade Germany during Overlord.

Read this: as you can, British soldiers were pretty much anywhere - including some places that don't get alot of attention concerning the war, like Greece and Ethiopia.

en.wikipedia.org

Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II

The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France, followed by the UK's D...

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It’s out of date, it’s in a terrible part of town, the service sucks and all of the food tastes like cardboard. Just like every Waffle House.

NATO is the same way as FR/UK.

No NATO war fighters in Ukraine.

In WWII UK/FR only had Nice food. Pretty nurses. Gravediggers. Ammo haulers.

Heathrow

Seattle Tacoma airport is ok past security, but on the land side, it is fully of sketchy characters wandering in off the street. Transit connections are confusing and pass through an endless multistory garage where cars and people mingle in a chaotic mass.

Pro tip, to avoid getting ripped off you can walk to a Taco Bell and a convenience store outside the airport, about 30 minutes round trip. But it's one of those Taco Bells where they won't take your order, you have to enter it digitally on the screen.

9 times out of 10 it will be 35 degrees F and raining, conditions only large blubbery sea mammals can handle.