Does anyone else think that Simon balancing all these channels is a megaproject? We need to see him do a video on that lol thanks for all the great content!!
@@rachel_sj I've postulated for a while that he's the result of a secret UK experiment involving starfish DNA to pass on all the memories. Just cut off a part, grow a new Simon replicant. Allegedly. 🤫
I fly out of Laguardia at least once a month. Its STILL under construction, however its much better now than it was a couple years ago. Back in 2019, you'd have to give yourself extra time to catch your flight because the construction was so bad that even if you were running on time, you might miss a flight. In 2022... its pretty decent. The new terminals are really nice looking, although one annoying thing is that there is a terrible selection of restaurants and shops. I'm guessing they now have a special deal to keep out other chains because now its almost all "World Bean Coffee" and airport bars.
Vientiane airport in Laos is a Soviet era concrete block with a hand stencilled sign showing items not to be taken on board as hand luggage. These include AK-47’s, hand grenades, machetes, spears and…. Durians!
As a New Jerseyan I can confirm Newark Airport is a free-for-all nightmare. Pro tip: If you plan on using Newark go before the break of dawn. It will make things 1% better.
@@alvarofavela2918 26 years after the increased security caused by 9/11 they decide not to dump people back out on the street and make them go back thru? Wow how timely.
Bordeaux Marignac was the aerodrome from where the Luftwaffe flew Condors and Ju88s against Atlantic convoys in 1940 - 1944. Sounds like it hasn't changed much!
Now as for Newark... while waiting to board a flight to Kastrup/Copenhagen, a thunderstorm raged outside. Ceiling started dripping, then a seam opened up and before long we had the poor-man's version of the Singapore Changi indoor waterfall.
when I had the misfortune of spending a night at Stansted you were still allowed to sleep - but because there was ongoing construction the floor in the check in area was the only option. It was very very drafty and I spent a week sick in bed afterwards. Thankfully it was my flight home and didn't ruin my vaccation
I once transferred in Dallas, immigration officer asks where I was going, I tell him that I'm going home to join my family for Xmas. He tells me; "I'll be the one who decides if you get to do that or not." W.T.F. Never flew over the USA ever again, ever.
I can't believe Addis Ababa didn't make the list. Their departure terminal is it huge two-story room with a bathroom on the end with no ceiling. Sort of like a slightly tall wall cubicle. Not only is there no cap on the thing you can see some urinals from inside the waiting area. My recollection is once you've gone through final security to the departure gate there are no restaurants or stores.
Simon I am surprised you didn't have London Luton on this list. We all know how much you enjoy their car rental "village" and mingling with the staff getting off a 15 hour shift who just wont stop talking while you have to go 15 minutes to actually get a car rather than a desk in the airport. OGBB!
Had a flight from Newark to Johannesburg about two weeks ago. Took off about two hours late on a united airlines flight. Did not have enough headsests for all the passangers onboard a 14 hour flight and the airport staff was basicly useless
A late flight from Newark ended up making me miss a connecting flight…the airline ended up flying me to Las Vegas, putting me in a suite at the Luxor, and getting me a flight home the next day. 🤴
La Guardia needs to do the same thing Travis Air Force Base was doing a few years ago: Trained raptors were used to chase birds away from the flight lines. It was an idea that a service member who was a falconer came up with. Most of the raptors were peregrine falcons, and the idea worked very well. The raptors would be sent out to chase the birds away, then the planes would be able to take off with a minimum of bird strikes.
I once landed at Newark at 0800 and had to wait land-side until 1430 before I could drop my bags, check in and return airside for my next flight. 6.5hrs sat in a Wendy’s.
Just for clarity, they have 3 terminals, but you can't get between them without leaving the airport and re-entering (taking a taxi between them). WTF is that about?
Back when I was at university in the New York area in the early 1980s, I worked as an airport shuttle driver between terms. We went to all three NYC area airports. At the time, Newark wasn't bad. It was easy to navigate by car and was relatively low-trafffic. But it's bad now. I flew there recently, and the place was NOT designed for either the amount of traffic it now handles or post-9/11 security requirements. There's a major renovation under way, but for the time being that mostly means that you have to deal with both its inadequate facilities AND construction. The volume of traffic is why flights are so often late. On arrival, the terminal was so clogged up we had to sit on the tarmac for nearly an hour before a gate was available. JFK wasn't bad either, apart from getting there in the first place. But I hated, Hated, HATED LaGuardia. It had no redeeming features whatsoever.
I bet if it were still open, Hong Kong Kaitak Airport would've been on this list. Can't beat an airport where you have an equal chance of crashing into a mountain or scraping the Kowloon Walled City on your landing approach.
Swansea "International" Airport is utter shite. No public transport to the airport after 7pm, cab rides are super expensive, besides being flat broke (long time before instant money transfer). Ended up sleeping in a park in Swansea in early winter, got the earliest bus, slept in the airport for another few hours and got home. Landed in one of the best aiports in the world, Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam. The difference was insane and I realised how lucky I was to have Schiphol as my local airport.
Newark is an airport I would rather eat glass than ever travel through there again. Disgustingly rude employees from the minute you land until you leave. I watched employees being rude to the elderly, to a disabled person and a foreign lady who was having trouble understand what was being asked of her. Let me add here .. I was behind this lady and I didn’t understand the gentleman either.
LMAO 🤣😂 You seem like you had a lot of genuine passion behind this video. That may be the quickest epilogue I have ever heard from you. Thank you for being you, Factboy.
How.. how was Logan Airport in Boston not on the list?? I've been through Logan many times during college and it's the most horribly labeled airport I've ever been to.. and I've traveled all over the world! I definitely agree that that London airport has to be on the list.. just awful!
I had a connection through Logan once. I was told by the staff to cut through the parking garage to get from my arrival terminal to my next departure terminal because the people mover would take longer than I had time to catch my connection. I had 30 minutes -- which would be plenty of time even in larger airports with a more efficient system. How ridiculous is that?
Yes Simon. Glad you figured out that Newark airport is the worst airport not just in New Jersey but in the whole United States. Flights are mostly delayed and not very business oriented looking. Happy New Year.
I'm always tempted to fly from Newark instead of JFK or LGA because it's always cheaper. Then I remember how awful it is and I gladly pay the extra for JFK.
I flew to Canada via America from Melbourne and it was a nightmare. 3 airlines all stuffed up our flights, from stopping check-ins half way through the line in Sydney so the staff could go home early to flights being cancelled in LA because no flight maintenance had been done on a plane so the authorities stopped the flight. Each time I found a Qantas desk and they helped me just because I am an Aussie. They let me use their phone and fax and helped sort out flights and we weren't even flying with them. Bless their cotton socks!
Yeah Newark sucks and always has. I was flying out of there a month ago and there were these people who were waiting by the gate for a flight that didn’t seem to exist. The airline wasn’t answering their customer service line, they had no gate agent, no plane, and nobody from the airport seemed to know that the flight wasn’t there, they just kept directing the people to the empty gate.
In his novel "the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul", Douglas Adams starts with: "it cannot be a coincidence that no language has an expression for 'as pretty as an airport'."
may 6e air ports should have places where people can sleep -- like the inns of old. they should have spaces set aside where people can relax, charge their appliances, etc., at NO extra charge, given the exhor6itant fees air travelers are charged as it is. if you're going to provide a crappy air port and crappy air travel service as it is, then you should have to provide your customers with comforta6le accommodations -- at NO extra charge -- until they can get the hell out of there.
Well, Montréal Dorval airport is worthy of this list too. I come from the region, and went to many others in the world, and was always disappointed by my main airport with respect to the others I visited. It was built at the end of the '30s, started operation on Sept. 1st, 1941. They keep shoving so much money in the renovation, and enlargement that it would have cost a lot lest to keep Mirabel Airport and give it an High speed link to Montreal. It's a farce. The worst experience I've had, closely followed by Orly in Paris, but at least in Orly you can watch the planes without having to be a passenger waiting to get on one !
The best airports that I have ever had the pleasure of travelling through have all been in Asian countries. Narita & Haneda (Tokyo), Kansai International (Osaka), Incheon (Seoul) and Hong Kong have always been stress free, easy to navigate around and with incredibly polite and helpful staff.
I would also like to nominate Kodiak and DTW. Kodiak? Mess up? You're smacking a Mountain. DTW? If you've been there, you know. The same plywood and "We're renovating" signs have been there since 2002.
Quote by Douglas Adams: “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language...” “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "as pretty as an airport"
In 2007, my mother, brother and I had to sit an HOUR at Chicago O'Hara airport because Newark couldn't let us land there. Not only is Newark bad, but then you have the additional nightmare of the Garden State Parkway, that was basically a parking lot. My sister and her partner had left in plenty of time to pick us up at our original landing time and they were STILL an hour late to get us. IF Newark had gotten us on the ground and if my sister could've picked us up, we would've managed to visit my cousin before he died.
I think I might've went from Newark to Chicago. Believe it or not, I think we were late and it delayed the next flight because the flight was waiting for either us, or a bunch of people that were headed to the next plane
I've never flown into Courchevel Airport, but let me tell you about Toncontin International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. In 1961, when I was 7, our family visited my dad's homeland of Costa Rica. One leg of our trip included a layover in Honduras. This was my first time flying, and maybe it's a good thing that at that age I didn't know how scared I should have been. Toncontin is nestled in a mountain valley, similar to Courchevel. It has one runway. To land there, the plane must bank hard around a mountain. When I looked out the window on approach, all I saw was the ground. I remember ours was a prop plane. I can't imagine landing even a smallish jet there, but apparently they do.
Other RU-vidrs take breaks from their one channel for the holidays. Simon the Legend plows straight through with his umpteen channels! 🥂🍾 Happy New Year's everyone!
I've been through at least four of these airports and they are all fantastic compare to Sultan Hasanuddin in Makkassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia. That was a truly awful and disgusting experience that i am thankful to have only experienced once.
@@jakeg3126 Neither just like travelling and as quite a few of the airports were in France which is just a short hop from here it is logical I would use some of them. Add in the fact that "here" is about 15 miles from Stansted which was also mentioned so is my preferred airport as getting to and from it is so easy it is not difficult to get to four.
This list seemed to be made based on which airports had the most vengeful passengers, not on which were objectively the worst. I've been screamed by staff at for waiting patiently in Sydney, but never for any reason in New York.
@@petemelbourne42 I'm in USA. I would hate foreign traveling because I don't know languages or know customs of different countries so it would bother me. There probably usn't any real difference though and I think there is. I'm somewhat jealous of multi-linguists like yourself and most Europeans. Has to be badass speaking more than 1 language. My freshman year, I had a friend from Turkey, and he knew 5 languages. That would be awesome, he could talk about me behind my back in probably like 3 languages without me being able to understand I'm being mentioned.
To most of the world an airport is a place where you board or disembark air vehicles. To Yelp reviewers, they should be like the high-roller package at a Vegas Casino!
Get too much wind at Newark, which happens often, they have to ratchet down to 1 runway and every flight has a 3hr delay. They are currently building 2 more runways to alleviate this issue.
Dangit, Simon you've dashed my hopes and dreams! I had planned on going to the Sudan - on purpose - but since Today I Found Out the airport is slightly substandard, I'm going to pass. The airport is CLEARLY the only thing wrong in that country.
I can't see air rage becoming less frequent until they get rid of the mask requirement ... if they ever do. I'm now driving everywhere for vacations rather than flying.
Nearly all aircraft are maintained properly. That's why it's so much safer to fly than it is to drive. I'm guessing you have no problem getting in your car and driving somewhere, which is the most dangerous thing most people will ever do.
I've been using EWR for flights to Asia for the last ten years. It's much improved and quite nice. JFK, at least back in the '90s was pretty awful, but there was much construction going on then so I don't know how it ended up.
In 1980 when I was in the US military stationed in Germany I flew into Frankfurt on a commercial airline. There was a dedicated transit bus to tale us to our bases but my flight arrived to late and I missed the bus. I had to stay in the airport overnight. Nothing open for food or drink, not allowed to sleep or sit to long in one spot, and the scariest of all Politzi patrols with uzis and German shepards.
Don't get me wrong, Beijing and Shanghai was pretty fudging awesome, the lack of Wifi sucked though and the fact that you can only get a Didi at certain times also was not great, but the other airports were horrid
As a NYer, LaGuardia is an utter mess and the construction that’s closed roadies and rerouted traffic makes it that much worse. I’m surprised JFK isn’t on here.
It is funny that you consider 50 miles a good chunk of land. That used to be my daily commute. In Texas that is considered very close. Now I live on Maui and 15 miles is considered far away. This still cracks me up after 4 years.
Last time I flew was pre-9/11 and was out of Newark!! I don't remember any real issues about getting on the plane, but once there, a 'bad boy celeb wannabe' caused a four hour delay😡 While the plane prepped for take off...he was getting out of his seat, refused to comply with the staff and was smoking in the bathroom...just to scratch the surface. Back then there was not much policing going on at the airport, although if it had been somewhere other than Newark, there may have been a different response. At least now, that jerk would have been removed from the plane.
So far in all my travels I have managed to avoid O'Hare even though it is 90 minutes away from home and La Guardia. My favorite? Amsterdam. Least favorite? Philadelphia.
Best airport I've been to is Seoul international. I also have never flown a better airline than Korean Air. I have 2 for the worst just because of my experiences, Atlanta and Los Angeles. Even Detroit metro improved more than the other 2. I even hate picking up and dropping people off at Atlanta. And I have yet to encounter a staff member who isn't rude. I'm sure they exist and I have only been there a dozen times. Charlotte had really nice staff when I had a layover there. San Diego and San Francisco are decent too. The only thing I can complain about was customs but that's usually pretty slow.
Mybworst airport vote goes to anything in Cuba.. they try but reminds me of the high school in the movie dangerous minds only staffed by an oddly large amount of somewhat pleasant Cubans.
LaGuardia airport is a challenging and fun airport to fly into, but the fun ends once you clear the runway and have to navigate the taxiways to the gate.
Great video 📹 In defence of Stansted and other small British airports. They cater for cheap flights ✈️. You get what you pay for. There are reasonable priced coffee ☕ shops and other shops. High Street prices. If you miss/ cancel your flight, go home 🏡. But I know , many emigree workers save on accommodation around London and other big cities and use the facilities in the airport 🙄. That's a problem.
Just dropped my bf off at Newark, I can attest to this. His flight was delayed 2 hrs and just dropping him off was a total nightmare. The airport is designed terribly!! And it’s very confusing. The police do not help.
8:47 Whoever wakes me up will immediately regret that decision and start thinking about their life choices. I go from 0-100 _real_ quick when I get woken up abruptly and I'm tired.
Newark is horrible. Decent building, but ive had several transfers there and always have to literally run to the next flight cause theyre so late. I got in on time once, but my wife got a sandwich at the only food place we could find that was open, and she got horrible food poisoning. Lol. Was not a fun vacation especially since I prepared to propose on that trip.
Love our two local airports (Battle Creek and Kalamazoo), and had a pretty good experience twice at Midway, although the moving walkway wasn't working.
I would include a (dis) honourable mention to Heathrow Airport. An airport in the worst location for a hub airport, right in the middle of the London suburbs and it's through sheer bloody mindedness at the expense of its neighbours that it continues to expand like an obese person
@@owenshebbeare2999 the suburbs developed around it, but other airports before it closed because of their poor location and lack of suitable space to expand (Croydon, Hendon and Heston are some of the airports that fell by the way side because of this)
LAX may not quite be able to top a tent with rotten plywood floors, but it's still pretty bad. That horseshoe of death is just painful and I'm hoping the upcoming people mover makes it less miserable.
In NZ, Auckland is probably the worst airport. Its runway is so ridiculously small but it’s basically our only good sized airport so Airbus A380s and Boeing 747’s are forced to land on runways with no room and this ends up with a terrifying landing as the plane has to almost scrape the water as it lands
I often fly to the US but will pay more so-as not to connect through Newark. Last time in 2019, we circled for close on 2 hours, I missed my connection as was informed that I would have to make my way to and connect via LaGuardia. So cab ride which was okay but I then arrived to my flight being overbooked. So after close on 5 hours I was still there only to be informed that they could not connect me there for Virginia so I'd have to travel back to Newark. Total time from landing to leaving, 11 hours. And do not even get me started on Paris Beauvais.
