1. Hong Kong
2. Singapore Changi
3. Seoul Incheon
4. Kuala Lumpur KLIA
5. Munich
6. Kansai
7. Copenhagen
8. Zurich
9. Helsinki
10. Cape Town
I've only ever been to Munich Airport on my way to somewhere else, but I had to look them up all the same. I love airports. Not planes so much - the only thing I could tell you about the plane I'm travelling on is its destination - but airports are great fun. A couple of years ago a friend and me would take the train to Birmingham airport on weekends, which isn't exactly next door, and spend the day there watching people and exploring the place.
Going home from uni now I have to fly via London, which secretly I'm quite happy about although it's a huge detour. I like Heathrow - it's big, it's busy, and you see people travelling to all sorts of exotic places. But now British Airways use a new terminal and waiting is nowhere near as fun anymore. There are much fewer people, it’s more of a waiting than a shopping area and it’s just plain boring, but I do have to admit that things run a lot more smoothly now. Before they finished this terminal you regularly had to wait an hour or more to clear the security checks, and the delays were really bad. I often spent four or five hours longer in Heathrow than I was supposed to, and waiting is not so much fun anymore when you're tired and hungry and they keep delaying your flight by thirty minutes at a time.
Still, I like the whole atmosphere and I'm more looking forward to the airports next week than to seeing my family. Of course, that might just have something do with the fact that I haven't spent my whole life on airports.
There's one thing I really hate though - waiting for my luggage. More often than not I'm one of the last people to leave the plane and I don't have the heart to knock over little girls just to get to my stuff. I'll never understand why entire families have to crowd around the conveyor belt.
