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"I walked on soiled carpets under a water-stained ceiling past rows of torn seats showing yellow foam padding,” he writes. “This was the anti-gemutlichkeit: bad lighting, bad paperbacks, bad music (Everyday People), bad food.” Suffice to say, it was not the homecoming Swick would have hoped for. “It was,” he writes, “disheartening...to come from what a former Defense Secretary not long ago called ‘Old Europe’ and find everything—in the so-called ‘greatest city in the world,’ in the superpowerful United States—tired and sad and dilapidated.” Swick’s column is yet more bad press for JFK.
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COMMENTSOur last experience at JFK was as described in the article. It was so bad that to this day we will not travel into or out of this airport, and have refused travel arrnagements through cruise lines and other tour operators if they can not provide an alternative! Sorry, NYC, but you really need to do something about JFK! BTW Charles DeGaulle in Paris has recently tied JFK as worst experience for us! By on 8.19.07 at 08:40 AM
I have to agree about the Frankfurt airport, I felt like I was in a different dimension when I was there at 9am. The time seemed to mean nothing, as everyone was eating bratwurst and drinking beer. Frankfurt’s airport, is by far my favourite. By on 9.23.07 at 10:55 AM
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Thomas Swick recently flew home from Europe, passing through Frankfurt airport and New York City’s John F. Kennedy International. 
