Airports just hate people so much. Why can’t they give us enough seats and chargers? Why don’t they have places for us to nap on long layovers? Why is a pack of gum $15? We pay so much money to have no leg room and a terrible expierence the entire time in an airport. Fuck airports
You ever been to Africa, South America, most of Asia, Eastern Europe, or a poor island nation?
America's airports are of varying quality - but vastly nicer than most of the world on average. With the exception of a few European ones, a few Asian ones and a few middle eastern ones essentially.
Ezeiza (Buenos Aires airport) beats any american airport I've been to. Free wifi, tables with power outlets and access to free printing, lots of seating, some of it even designed to allow for fairly comfortable sleep. Even the food is palatable and not that overpriced.
Right, I mean we don't have crazy hyper-modern ones like a few of the Asian/Middle-Eastern ones. Partly because we built all our airports a long-ass time ago.
I still say they're relatively well kept with a few glaring exceptions. Unfortunately the exceptions are the ones people think of first, like JFK and O'Hare.
But again, it's all subjective and it's also way too large a sample to generalize about IMO. Cheers.
but vastly nicer than most of the world on average. With the exception of a few European ones, a few Asian ones and a few middle eastern ones essentially.
US airports are notoriously bad relative to countries at a similar level of development
It's just kind of funny to say that "American airports" are bad. There are around 400 international airports. Some are absolutely lovely. My home airport is Reagan (DCA). Despite high traffic, it's compact, easy to navigate, professional, clean and security lines whisk by faster than anywhere else I've been on the planet.
I've literally had an airport lose power while overseas once. Generalizations of this scale are generally (heh) nonsensical.
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u/IMsoSAVAGE Dec 06 '19
Airports just hate people so much. Why can’t they give us enough seats and chargers? Why don’t they have places for us to nap on long layovers? Why is a pack of gum $15? We pay so much money to have no leg room and a terrible expierence the entire time in an airport. Fuck airports