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« on: December 30, 2007, 05:49:41 pm »
Let's see:
MCO - east airsides are nice with good views of 17-35. Lots of shopping in the main terminal and decent food throughout. Coming through immigration isn't TOO bad as far as immigration goes. Security lines can be horrible early in the morning for the 6am-7:30am pushes.
ATL - always seem to go into T with a flight departing 45 minutes later from concourse E (over a mile walk). Food and shopping is decent, but other than the E concourse, the airport is pretty well rundown. Immigration is a pain in ATL. Security lines were terrible pre-9/11 and weren't a whole lot better last time through
FLL - nice little airport if slightly rundown the last time I was there. Shopping and food are minimal, but so is the crowding. Also used to have some nice viewing areas along the end of the runways with holes precut in the fence for cameras (guessing that might have been a victim of 9/11 :cry: )
MIA - never much cared for it. Immigration was a OK - it didn't leave a big impression so it must not have been too bad. Interesting to drive around the 36th St side of the airport, but I'd much prefer FLL instead.
CDG - immigration was very quick. Decent shopping inside, nice clean terminals. However, on my last flight they decided to remote load the 747 using scissor buses, resulting in our being over an hour late for departure.
ORY - The most God-awful mass of humanity I have ever seen.
LGW - immigration was decent, airport is nice inside. Don't care for the way Virgin flies the approaches, but that's not the airport's fault.
TLV - immigration in was very quick. Immigration out was everything I expected, but the people were friendly and professional. Not a lot to do in the airport, but it was one of the best overall airport experiences overseas.
ETH - nice facilities, very little to do. Approach over the Red Sea in a DHC-7 was most cool
MAN - my best memory is of the concrete beams over the car rental area. Immigration was quick, but renting a car on Boxing Day is not.
MHT - Nice little airport, decent food, not a lot of shopping outside of the normal newsstand.
SFO - love flying into there, always seems to be a pain coming out.
OAK - much better choice for the Bay Area, lines aren't quite as bad, but not quite as much to do as SFO
SBA - this is my all time favorite airport. The building dates back to the 30s and has individual waiting rooms for each gate (also has individual security for each gate since you have to walk along the outside of the building to get from the ticket counter to the gate. Absolutely nothing to do, maybe one coffee stand in the main lobby, but an airport like none other I've ever been through.
CLE - Nice facilities, used to have an open air observation deck on the top of the airside (don't know if it is still there). The lines were reasonable and the food and shopping was respectable.
HOU - Nice airport, good food selection, shopping isn't too bad. Only transferred there, so I don't know about the lines, etc.
CRP - Very clean and small facility. Not a lot in the way of food or shopping (I think one choice on each), but while I was waiting for someone to arrive there, I noticed that the security line very often had no one waiting. :shock:
I've also been through SLC, RNO, CVG (immigration was quick), DFW, DEN (Stapleton), IND, IAH, BWI, IAD and others that I know I've forgotten.
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