From Tripso.com, we bring you:
Most miserable airports in the U.S. by Charlie Leocha
An excerpt:
We have all long known that air travel and time spent in airports is not a stressless walk in the park. However, some airports are more stressful than others. The most stressful major airport in the U.S.: Chicago’s O’Hare, followed closely by Newark and San Francisco.
US News & World Report crunched the government and airline numbers including on-time performance and load factors to create what they call the “Airport Misery Index.”
The Index’s Top 10 lists have separated major airports from regional ones. (There’s a link to the methodology of the index as well, if that interests you as much as does me.) I’ve flown through five of the majors and none of the minors, and I completely agree with the list order of the ones I’ve experienced, except for Las Vegas — but I flew that one only late at night.
And recently, on a related note, Forbes has released THEIR list of the top 10 most stressful U.S. airports.
America’s 10 most stressful airports by Charlie Leocha
An excerpt:
Last February, we noted the US News and World Report Airport Misery Index. Now, just in time for Thanksgiving, Forbes has released their list of the country’s most stressful airports.
Only four of the airports that were in the top 10 on the US News list made the Forbes list. US News used a more complex algorithm that included load factors. Forbes focused on on-time performance. Some of the differences may be increasing delays in the New York/Philadelphia airspace.
Although it’s a different list, I’ve flown through five of the airports on the Forbes list, too. And after using it multiple times, I agree that Philadelphia is #1. As in, it is the most stressful, and has the worst on-time performance record. My theory is because PHL is one of the hubs for U.S. Airways, which is AWFUL. I think every one of my U.S. Airways flights was late, and the one from PHL was late by HOURS because they ran out of fuel circling because they couldn’t land — due to some other delay — and ended up being rerouted to another city’s airport (it was another Class B airport–Boston?) to refuel before they could return to PHL! What a fiasco!
Anyway, for all the Americans out there: Happy Thanksgiving and hope your travels are safe and stress-free.
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Atlanta is hands down the WORST airport I have ever done a plane change. It was dirty, the seating that was available was torn, dirty and there were no food places. I’ll take O’Hare any day over Atlanta!
Well, if we’re ranking low aesthetics and food quality, the list would be different. LAX would be on there, for starters. But I imagine people would rather breeze through a dirty airport than kill time in a nicer one plagued with delays.
The best airport is the most efficient one.