BOTTOM five most hated airports

<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;">5. Ninoy Aquino International, Manila, Philippines</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="Ninoy Aquino International Airport" src="http://i.cdn.cnngo.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/inline_image_400x267/2011/10/31/5--STR-AFP-Getty-Images.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;">Wear a helmet -- the first collapsed ceiling in 2006 at Ninoy Aquino International Airport.</div></div><p><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;">Beleaguered by ground crew strikes, unkempt conditions, soup kitchen-style lines that feed into more lines and an overall sense of futility, NAIA brings the term “Stuck in the 1970s” to a new level.</span></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;"> </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;">At Terminal 1 all non-Philippine Airlines remain crammed despite serious overcapacity issues and a new and underused Terminal 3 is occupied by a few minor carriers. </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;">A rash of bad press this year (including a “Worst in the World” ribbon from Sleeping in Airports) was capped by a collapsed ceiling in T1, a paralyzing ground service strike at T2, and the usual charges of tampered luggage, filthy restrooms, seat shortages at gates, re-sealed water bottles sold in retail shops and an Amazing Race-style check-in routine spiked with bureaucracy, broken escalators, lengthy Dot Matrix passenger lists and creative airport departure fees. </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/bangkok/visit/bangkok-edges-top-10-list-worlds-busiest-airports-774335" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;" target="_blank">World's busiest airports announced</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;">4. Toncontín International, Tegucigalpa, Honduras</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_400x267/2011/10/31/4-ORLANDO-SIERRA-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;">Over-priced corn chips will be the least of your worries.</div></div><p><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;">When do the most common airport gripes about inefficiency, uncomfortable gate chairs, dirty floors and lousy dining options suddenly become irrelevant? When you’re preoccupied about whether your 757 will actually be able to stop before the runway does. </span></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;"> </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;">Nestled in a bowl-shaped valley at 957 meters above sea level, Toncontín’s notoriously stubby, mountain-cloaked landing strip was recently lengthened another 300 meters following a fatal TACA aircraft overshoot in 2008.</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;">Not enough though to avoid being named the “second most dangerous airport in the world” by the History Channel. </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;">Nepal’s hair-raising Tenzing-Hillary Airport in the Himalayas is the top seed, but receives fewer gripes from its thrill-seeking Everest-bound clientele.</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/Shanghai%20Pudong%20International%20Airport:%20Fifth%20best%20in%20the%20world" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;" target="_blank">Shanghai Pudong International Airport: Fifth best in the world</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;">3. London Heathrow, London, England</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="bad airports" src="http://i.cdn.cnngo.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/inline_image_400x267/2011/10/31/3--BEN-STANSALL-AFP-Getty-I.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;">"You'll fly through departures -- at the speed of a penguin."</div></div><p><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;" /><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;">Depending on which of Heathrow’s five terminals one is funneled through, the average experience at the world’s third-busiest airport ranges from mildly tedious to "Fawlty Towers" ridiculous. </span></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;"> </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 its rash of -- as they were politely called -- “teething problems” in bright and airy T5 (remember that riotous grand opening with 34 canceled flights?) and nicely matured problems in Ts 1, 2 and 3, the issues passengers are beset with run the gamut.</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;">Parking messes. Busted baggage carousels. Deadlocked security lines. Long walks (or, more commonly, runs) between gates to a frenzied soundtrack of “last call” announcements. Realizations that getting out of Heathrow took longer than actually flying here from Madrid. </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 the airport “where the world changes planes,” it all boils down to a chronic inability to cope with this many people. Plans for a sixth terminal should help sever even more nerves.</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;">2. Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, 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_400x267/2011/10/31/2-Carlo-Allegri-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;">It's not even a good spot for celebrity sightings.</div></div><p><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;" /><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 the world’s seventh-busiest flight hub was an old ballpark resting on the stale reputation of its Dodger Dogs and that great 1959 series, LAX might have some endearment value. </span></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;"> </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 it’s an airport -- a dramatically undersized and moribund one with the architectural élan of a 1960s correctional facility and several publicized concerns about how its 1,700 takeoffs and landings a day can be sustained in a facility a fifth the size of healthier cousins like Dallas/Fort Worth. </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 unsupportive donut-shaped design -- it’s been called “eight terminals connected by a traffic jam” -- makes dashing between airlines feel like a diesel-scented cardio test. </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;">Plunked in the middle is the airport’s landmark Jetsons-style restaurant and only mentionable amenity, Encounter, but how does one actually get inside this place -- at least before being nailed for a petty traffic violation by some of the most ticket-hungry airport cops west of the Mississippi?</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/worlds-most-thrilling-airports-338032" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;" target="_blank">World's most terrifying airports</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;">1. Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris, France</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_400x267/2011/10/31/1---BERTRAND-LANGLOIS-AFP-G.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 expect to make friends during a storm closure.</div></div><p><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;" /><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;">“A great country worthy of the name,” President Charles de Gaulle once opined, “does not have any friends.” </span></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;"> </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;">True or not, it’s this sort of attitude that has helped CDG become the most maligned major airport on earth. What’s fueling it? </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;">Grimy washrooms with missing toilet seats don’t help. Nor do broken scanning machines and an overall lack of signage, gate information screens and Paris-worthy bars, restaurants or cafés.</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 baffling circular layout is worsened by warrens of tunnel-like structures, dismissive staff and seething travelers waiting forever in the wrong queue. </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 worst part may be this airport’s aura of indifference to it all. “Waiting for a connection here,” notes one <a href="http://www.thebenche.com/forum/lounge/6603-best-worst-airports-world.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;" target="_blank">commuter</a>, “is like being in custody.”  </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;">If you’re actually staying in Paris, you may be okay. If you have the gall to just be passing through between Malaga and Montreal, you can cut the spite of this place with a cheese knife.</p><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>

BOTTOM five most hated airports

5. Ninoy Aquino International, Manila, Philippines   Wear a helmet -- the first collapsed ceiling in 2006 at Ninoy Aquino International Airp...

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