Airport reviews
Bring cash to avoid queues, crying kids at this bureaucratic airport
Cairo airport handles 26 million passengers a year. Allow time (and patience) for its lengthy security – better still, bring cash.
- by Belinda Jackson
★★★★
Thailand
This new airport is the gateway to Thailand’s emerging beach hotspots
This new $62.5 million airport is well designed and well run (with one exception).
- by John Borthwick
★★
Dublin
This dismal airport is confusing and charmless
Brace yourself. This overcrowded airport is gloomy and tired, and by the time you board your plane, you will be, too.
- by Brian Johnston
★★★★★
Cambodia
South-East Asia’s newest airport is sleek, shiny and cavernously empty
The airport was built to sustain 7 million passengers a year, but is running at about 50,000. Hopefully, it will be a case of build it and they will come.
- by Christine Retschlag
★★★★★
Air travel
Airport review: Forget the rankings, this is truly the world’s best airport
Doha is slick and modern and very pretty, but Changi is streets ahead in terms of its dining, shopping and entertainment options.
- by Ben Groundwater
★★★★½
Japan
This cramped, daggy airport is my new favourite
This isn’t a flashy, modern airport, and it doesn’t have many exciting facilities, but I love New Chitose with all of my stomach and heart.
- by Ben Groundwater
★★★★★
Italy
There is no greater airport to eat in than this one
This five-star airport delivers one of the most enjoyable airport experiences around. Just be sure to bring an appetite.
- by Shaney Hudson
★★★
Honolulu
Hawaii’s main airport terminals are 15 minutes, and 50 years, apart
Honolulu’s Terminal 2, the main gateway for international and domestic flights, opened in 1927. It was “modernised” in the 1970s.
- by Kristie Kellahan
★★★
Norway
This airport has good facilities – until you’re stuffed in like herrings
Chic Scandi wood details punctuate the high ceilings, but there is frustration in the air at this Norwegian airport.
- by Jenny Hewett
This might be a five-star paradise, but its airport is a dismal one star
The queues are long and sweaty, the toilets are broken and the best thing about it is the view while taking off.
- by Brian Johnston