At 03:53 PM 10/2/2003, Clay quoted Christopher Elliott: >Even if you travel abroad only occasionally, you may be familiar with some >of the better airports internationally. >Like wide-open spaces? Vancouver (B.C.) International Airport is your >terminal. Shopping? Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is your preferred >stopover in Europe. Tidy? Dubai International Airport, winner of the >latest International Air Transport Association customer survey, fits the bill. > >By popular request, here are my five worst international airports. > >Here we go: > >1. London Heathrow (LHR). >2. Mexico City (MEX). >3. Frankfurt, Germany (FRA). >4. Moscow Sheremetyevo (SVO). >5. Paris Charles De Gaulle (CDG). OK, this is too weird: I've been to every airport listed except Dubai and SVO in the past five years. I never noticed those wide open spaces at YVR; the landside portion of the airport is so congested any later open spaces were forgotten. :-) (Also, on one of my two return trips out of YVR, I was fighting pneumonia, but that's not YVR's fault....) My trips through Schipol were fairly brief; I was on an intra-Europe weekend trip and didn't linger much coming or going. I'll agree with LHR being a disorganized, chaotic mess, based on passing through once on my way from the USA to a European destination. MEX is cramped, and they don't tell you where your plane is leaving from until relatively shortly before boarding. That's a bit weird.... FRA is huge, although LH for one makes an effort to help passengers with tight connections get through quickly and efficiently. I don't know if CDG is uniformly bad; I've heard several times that terminal 2, where AF and its alliance partners fly out of, is nice. But I've only been in Terminal 1 on another intra-Europe weekend. Terminal 1 is visually stunning but a logistical nightmare! I wonder how soon I'll make an SVO-DXB trip just to get the rest of the airports mentioned in the article? :-) Nick