CNN has asked for a comment from aviation
authorities in Nigeria, but so far no response. Remarkably, Port Harcourt
didn’t even appear on last year’s worst airports list.
Filipinos will be pleased to hear their
long maligned Ninoy Aquino International Airport Manila Airport, crowned
worst airport three years in a row before slipping to fourth place last
year, didn’t even make this year’s top 10.
Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport held onto its position as world’s second worst airport.
Voters were annoyed by the chaotic, crowded, unclean airport — particularly within the Hajj terminal.
“From smoking in non-smoking areas to the
bathroom odor wafting out into the lounges, few people sang praises
after spending time here,” said Sleeping in Airports.
“Multi-hour immigration queues with distracted and absent officers further aggravated travelers.”
Fortunately, the site said Jeddah’s days on the list are likely numbered — the new Jeddah Airport is scheduled to open mid-2016.
Nepal’s Kathmandu Tribhuvan International Airport held onto the same spot as last year — third.
Last year’s worst airport, Benazir Bhutto
International Airport in Islamabad, Pakistan, slipped to ninth place,
while Tashkent International Airport in Uzbekistan rose a spot to move
from fifth to fourth place.
Not a single United States airport appeared in this year’s top 10, though Europe can’t say the same.
France’s Beauvais-Tille Airport slipped in to land the number 10 spot.
“Grievances from voters are detailed and
far-reaching, but generally revolve around the absence of chairs, kind
staff, sufficient toilets and hygienic standards,” says Sleeping in
Airports of the Paris facility.
Worst airports of 2015:
1. Port Harcourt International Airport (Nigeria)
2. King Abdulaziz International Airport (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
3. Tribhuvan International Airport (Kathmandu, Nepal)
4. Tashkent International Airport (Uzbekistan)
5. Simon Bolivar International Airport (Caracas, Venezuela)
6. Toussaint Louverture International Airport (Port au Prince, Haiti)
7. Hamid Karzai International Airport (Kabul, Afghanistan)
8. Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
9. Benazir Bhutto International Airport (Islamabad, Pakistan)
10. Beauvais-Tille International Airport (Paris)
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