Top five most hated Airports

<p><h2 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.667em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">10. São Paulo-Guarulhos International, São Paulo, Brazil</h2><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"> </p><div class="inline-image inline_image_400x267" style="float: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"><img alt="" src="http://i.cdn.cnngo.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/inline_image_400x267/2011/10/31/10-MAURICIO-LIMA-AFP-Getty-.jpg" style="border: 0px initial initial;" /><div class="inline-image-caption in-captioninline_image_400x267" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; color: #494949; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: italic; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; width: 400px;">Whether it's 9 a.m. or 9 p.m. this airport experiences round-the-clock rush hour.</div></div><br class="clear-both" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;">Why is this place on our list after scoring third best airport in South America at the 2011</span><a href="http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/ww.worldairportawards.com/Awards_2011/bestairport_samerica.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;" target="_blank"> World Airport Awards</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">? </span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">Because, shockingly enough, it turns out that corporate medal ceremonies aren’t always in sync with what people are thinking when they're standing in two-hour immigration lines, suffering routinely unannounced gate changes and paying through the teeth for a stale Brazilian cheese roll and beer inside an understaffed and over-aged aviation facility. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">In a country where flight delays (departing or arriving) are just part of the deal, some recent numbers would give pause to the most unflappable traveler at Brazil’s largest airport.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">Just 41 percent of all flights leave on time. Only 59 percent of flights arrive on schedule, according to <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2008/01/14/airports-brazil-delays-biz-logistics-cx_bw_0114airports.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;" target="_blank">Forbes</a>.  </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">São Paulo-Guarulhos has announced plans to add runways and terminals -- what airport hasn’t? -- but with nearly 30 million passengers traipsing through every year (the figure has reportedly doubled in under a decade) the urgency is palpable and, sadly enough, unsolved by upping prices at musty duty-free shops.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">But does this really constitute bronze medal status? When the best unofficial advice for surviving Brazil’s pin-up airport is to try and learn a little Portuguese and not lose your temper, something’s gotta give. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Read more on CNNGo: </strong><a href="http://www.cnngo.com/shanghai/life/world%E2%80%99s-biggest-airport-planned-328259" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;" target="_blank"><strong>World's biggest airport planned</strong></a></p><h2 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.667em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">9. Perth Airport, Perth, Australia</h2><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"> </p><div class="inline-image inline_image_400x267" style="float: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"><img alt="worst airports" src="http://i.cdn.cnngo.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/inline_image_400x267/2011/10/31/9-WILLIAM-WEST-AFP-Getty-Im.jpg" style="border: 0px initial initial;" /><div class="inline-image-caption in-captioninline_image_400x267" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; color: #494949; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: italic; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; width: 400px;">Kick a dog while it's down: The Qantas strike didn't help PER's reputation.</div></div><br class="clear-both" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">If there’s one thing Australians love, it’s hating their airports.</span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">But while the big guns in Sydney, Melbourne and also-rans in Darwin, Cairns and Hobart get routinely lambasted for various inefficiencies and rip-off tactics, passengers in Western Australia have a special place in their spleens for Perth. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">“The only advantage over some other airports is the lack of nearby combat,” notes one of several miffed passengers on <a href="http://www.airlinequality.com/Airports/Airport_forum/per.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;" target="_blank">airportquality.com</a>. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">With a reviled pair of domestic terminals (home of two-hour taxi-line queues, atrocious check-in lines, overpopulated gates and meager lounges) and a slightly more palatable international terminal five kilometers away, Perth’s brittle facilities can be overwhelmed just by a trio of aircraft arriving within 20 minutes of each other. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">Now that an ambitious “billion-dollar” redevelopment project has been significantly scaled back, who would ever want to leave Changi for this place? </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Read more on CNNGo: Transit hotels:<a href="http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/transit-hotels-around-world-712461" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;" target="_blank"> How to get to sleep during your stopover</a></strong></p><h2 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.667em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">8. Tribhuvan International, Kathmandu, Nepal</h2><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"> </p><div class="inline-image inline_image_400x267" style="float: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"><img alt="" src="http://i.cdn.cnngo.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/inline_image_400x267/2011/10/31/8--PRAKASH-MATHEMA-AFP-Gett.jpg" style="border: 0px initial initial;" /><div class="inline-image-caption in-captioninline_image_400x267" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; color: #494949; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: italic; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; width: 400px;">Don't look the officers -- or the dogs -- in the eye.</div></div><br class="clear-both" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">For a small airport in a pretty country, Tribhuvan has it all: the interminable weather delays of Boston Logan, the shoddy restroom maintenance of a Glasgow sports bar, the departure board sparsity of McMurdo Airfield and the chronic chaos of a kids' soccer match. </span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">Some airport improvements have been underway for the Visit Nepal 2011 tourism campaign, including things most passengers don’t much care about (e.g., the new helicopter base). </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">The most serious beefs with Nepal’s only international airport revolve around its primitive yet officious check-in procedure, starring a roulette wheel of underpaid security agents. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">“Departure is an endless game of body searches and silly questions,” notes one <a href="http://www.airlinequality.com/Airports/Airport_forum/ktm.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;" target="_blank">passenger.</a></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">“Those who didn’t have their e-tickets printed out had to argue their way in,” says another, who was checked seven times and scolded for not having a baggage tag on a carry-on before eventually boarding. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">Never mind. The city’s markets and surrounding mountains are lovely.</p><h2 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.667em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">7. John F. Kennedy International, New York, United States</h2><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"> </p><div class="inline-image inline_image_400x267" style="float: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"><img alt="" src="http://i.cdn.cnngo.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/inline_image_400x267/2011/10/31/7-Michael-Nagle-Getty-Image.jpg" style="border: 0px initial initial;" /><div class="inline-image-caption in-captioninline_image_400x267" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; color: #494949; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: italic; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; width: 400px;">Fans flooded the airport to welcome the 1964 British Invasion, but it seems they never left.</div></div><br class="clear-both" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">You’d think it would be one of the greatest humiliations any major airport would never allow itself to live down -- getting routinely abandoned by fed-up folks opting to fly out of Newark (Newark!) instead, where at least the ground staff cop less attitude and fewer people outside are pretending to be cab drivers.  </span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">But, nah, JFK really couldn’t really care less.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">Every year, more than 21 million passengers stumble through worn, mid-century terminals that peaked when The Beatles arrived in the United States and rooftop parking was all the rage; JFK proudly remains the world’s busiest international air gateway.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">So if you’re not into a dim, surly, unbearably congested airport reeking with attitude and unapologetically long immigration lines -- good riddance. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">“JFK had a piece of my luggage sitting in a little detention room for bags -- for over a year,” notes <a href="http://www.airlinequality.com/Airports/Airport_forum/jfk.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;" target="_blank">one passenger</a>. “No one noticed it was there, until finally an observant Air France employee wondered what the dusty little green bag in the corner was.” </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Read more on CNNGo: <a href="http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/singapores-changi-airport-worlds-favorite-airport-according-secret-report-937772" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;" target="_blank">Secret Report: Singapore's Chiangi Airport world's favorite </a></strong></p><h2 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.667em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">6. Jomo Kenyatta International, Nairobi, Kenya</h2><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"> </p><div class="inline-image inline_image_400x267" style="float: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"><img alt="" src="http://i.cdn.cnngo.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/inline_image_400x267/2011/10/31/6-SIMON-MAINA-AFP-Getty-Ima.jpg" style="border: 0px initial initial;" /><div class="inline-image-caption in-captioninline_image_400x267" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; color: #494949; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: italic; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; width: 400px;">Can't be disappointed if you're not expecting much.</div></div><br class="clear-both" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">“As African airports go, it’s not that bad -- but as an international hub, it may be one of the worst out there.” </span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">This is the common refrain among travelers through JKIA, who either don’t have the heart or the expectations to give this dated aviation facility the kind of pounding reserved for the JFKs and Charles de Gaulles of the world. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">Saddled with a 1958 blueprint designed for 2.5 million passengers, JKIA receives close to twice that many. Hence the airport’s 2005, Three Phase, US$100 million expansion project which has seen long delays (something about the rain) and has been spinning its tires somewhere in Phase Two for the last few years. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">For now, that means business as usual: cramped spaces; long lines; inadequate seating; frequent power outages; tiny washrooms hiding up several flights of stairs; shabby duty free shops; overpriced food outlets; and business class lounges worthy of a shelter in mid-city Los Angeles.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">Sure, it’s a breeze compared to Lagos. But it could be so much better. The confusing result: grateful disappointment?</p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"><br /><br /><br /></span></p>

Top five most hated Airports

10. São Paulo-Guarulhos International, São Paulo, Brazil   Whether it's 9 a.m. or 9 p.m. this airport experiences round-the-clock rush h...

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