t happens to most people just about every 10 years. Our passport expires and we need to send in a new passport application. Once you`ve secured the passport renewal, every empty page within your passport becomes full of potential. When traveling the world , airport terminals can offer a long lasting impression and can have a good influence on the trip believe it or not. It`s a place where vacationers commit a lot of their time, hanging around for departure or connecting flights. Delays and cancellations can further prolong this time and being dependent on where you are it may easily turn out to be a nightmare.
Frommer’s has lately launched a list of its selections of the best and worst airport terminals with things such as cleanliness, services, on-time departures, navigation and the relative simplicity of getting to and from a city’s center being considered. Top of the list is the Haji Terminal at King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah which is only open 6 weeks of the calendar year to cater for the sizable Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
The award for the worst airport terminal goes to New York’s JFK Airport Terminal 3. Frommer’s describes it as: “Endless immigration cues in a dank basement, an utter lack of restaurants and retail options, 3 busy and confusing entry points, and hallways that could have been concieved by M.C Escher for vomiting global travellers out on to an underground sidewalk with no cabs available.
“There’s also a sense that the costodial staff crew had enough and gave up in despair a while ago.”
Possibly this is some information you should commit to memory as you are filling in your new passport application, as most main metropolitan areas possess numerous airports to choose from when flying in. Take a look below for the full list of the best and worst airport terminals in the world.
Best airports
1. Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) Hajj Terminal

2. Leifur Eriksson Air Terminal, Keflavik, Iceland

3. Seoul (South Korea) Incheon Airport

4. Wellington (New Zealand) “Rock” Terminal

5. New York JFK Airport Terminal 5
6. Singapore Changi International Airport Terminal 3

7. Marrakech (Morocco) Menara Airport Terminal 1

8. Madrid (Spain) Barajas Terminal 4
9. Carrasco International Airport, Montevideo, Uruguay

10. Bilbao (Spain) Airport Main Terminal


Worst airports
1. New York JFK Airport Terminal 3

2. Manila (Philippines) Airport Terminal 1

3. Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport Terminal B/C

4. Los Angeles, LAX Airport
5. Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport, Terminal 3

6. Amman (Jordan) Queen Alia Airport

7. New York LaGuardia Airport Terminal C
8. Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport
9. Paris’ Beauvais Airport

10. Chicago Midway Airport