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.
4 comments:
Is 'exotic' your new favourite word?
I've been to Hong Kong and Singapore airports. No wonder I have such a high opinion of the places. I s'pose there are more like IGI but I don't see them that often (phew)
I've been to Heathrow airport too... but I was 8. It was cool... I loved the moving walkways.
No it's not, I've been using it for a long time. And I always use it to refer to the same things.
I loved the walkways too... before they built the new terminal.
I like the moving walkways too... they're better than escalators which plain terrify me.
I've been to Singapore and KL from that list... but that trip had three cities in nine days so my memories of which was which are a bit fuzzy. I think KL was the one which had us take a train to go from the airport to the exit terminal though i think... that was cool!
I've heard real horror stories about the new terminal at Heathrow... you're actually the first person I know who's said it's made things smoother.
But yeah, I do love airports. And planes. And trains. And train stations for that matter... at least the ones in Europe. And traveling is always fun... except when it's work related. I need to start enjoying my work trips more... so far they've been all quite blah.
I love trains and train stations too. As for the new terminal... well, at first it was a bit of a disaster. It was slow and they sent all the luggage to the wrong place, repeatedly, but they sorted it all out before I used it for the first time.
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