The World’s 10 Worst Airports

Sleeping at Airports has put out its yearly list of the world’s 10 worst airports.

A new group has put out a list naming the world’s 10 worst airports, and you may want to avoid some of these airports if you have a long stay in any of the listed airports.

The ranking was put out by Sleeping in Airports, a website that provides tips and advice on how to sleep in airports.  The site puts out annual rankings of airports from around the world base on traveler surveys that ask questions about WiFi, food options, cleanliness, and comfort.

This year, the rankings included one airport within the United States: LaGuardia in New York City, ranked number 10 in worst airports around the world.According to the rankings, they said it received bad ratings because it had “poor restaurant selection, lackluster cleanliness, counterintuitive layout and the notoriously unhelpful staff.” Remember, this is the same airport that Vice President Joe Biden called a “third world country” and later took heat for labeling it as such.  According to these rankings though, Vice President Biden may have been in the right.

Here are the world’s 10 worst airports:

1. Islamabad Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Pakistan

2. Jeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport, Saudi Arabia

3. Kathmandu Tribhuvan International Airport, Nepal

4. Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Philippines

5. Tashkent International Airport, Uzbekistan

6. Paris Beauvais-Tille International Airport, France

7. Frankfurt Hahn International Airport, Germany

8. Bergamo Orio al Serio International Airport, Italy

9. Berlin Tegel International Airport, Germany

10. New York City LaGuardia International Airport, USA

The group also put out rankings just for North America.

Here are 2014’s worst airports in North America:

1. New York City LaGuardia International Airport, USA (LGA)

2. Los Angeles International Airport, USA (LAX)

3. Honolulu International Airport, USA (HNL)

4. Newark Liberty International Airport, USA (EWR)

5. New York City John F. Kennedy International Airport, USA (JFK)

6. Philadelphia International Airport, USA (PHL)

7. Miami International Airport, USA (MIA)

8. Cancun International Airport, Mexico (CUN)

9. Las Vegas McCarran International Airport, USA (LAS)

10. Washington Dulles International Airport, USA (IAD)

What has your experience been with the airports on this list?  Do you agree with the findings or think that the traveler surveys don’t capture the true greatness of some of these airports?