London’s Heathrow: The Worst Airport in the World?

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  10.21.09 | 2:02 PM ET

Poor Heathrow. It’s taken the title in a passenger poll for the second year in a row. Charles de Gaulle, LAX, Frankfurt and Miami rounded out the bottom five.

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Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. Her writing has also appeared in Reader's Digest Canada, NationalGeographic.com, the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


7 Comments for London’s Heathrow: The Worst Airport in the World?

Zach 10.21.09 | 6:46 PM ET

“Poor Heathrow?” Poor Heathrow travelers!

marilyn terrell 10.21.09 | 11:53 PM ET

I would suggest reading Brian Sack’s classic slam of Charles de Gaulle on the website Banterist:
http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/000376.html

JJ 10.22.09 | 10:59 AM ET

But it’s actually first in the ranking of airports with the highest number of corridors.

Angela K. Nickerson 10.22.09 | 6:19 PM ET

I was just in Heathrow and LAX yesterday.  I’d say LAX is FAR worse—at least as compared to Heathrow’s Terminal 5.

Boon 10.23.09 | 5:15 AM ET

Whilst Terminals 1-3 might be complete hell, the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow is actually really nice. The building was modern, there was lots of space, virtually no queues at all, and going through immigration and security checks were a breeze. My only gripe is that the Club World check-in desks for British Airways are all on one side of the terminal, which makes it a long trek!

Heathrow Airport Parking 10.26.09 | 1:46 PM ET

Apparently Heathrow isn’t that great of an airport to catch some sleep in either. Some funny stuff here: http://www.sleepinginairports.net/europe/londonheathrow.htm

Weldon 10.27.09 | 5:43 PM ET

Heathrow may be the worst airport in the world for people using business lounges, but for the rest of us that have rather different concerns I think there are many worse airports, some of them even serve London:
http://questingforadventure.com/?p=953

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