Maybe the list is a Work in Progress, like our airport

We have an airport?

Ben_Dover said :

We have an airport?

And it’s an “International” one.

Cairns didn’t get a mention either and its a real international airport.

Who knows what they based that list on!

Canberra has a shopping and office space precinct with a runway.

Will they do a list of best/worst long distance bus stations? I’m sure the Jolimont Centre would get a guernsey.

I don’t believe those figures, by what measure? Canberra and Cairns should have more passenger traffic than Hobart or Darwin.

How odd

Canberra’s not there because it’s in a category of it’s own, way below “worst”.

Those wondering where they got the data could always click the link and find out…

As an airport, Sydney sucks. International transfers are a pain, the layout is inefficient, the parking is expensive.

Canberra has its parking problems, but otherwise I find it a pleasure to use, at least on the Qantas side. That’s now, anyway. For years and years it was a confusing nightmare of roadworks and potholes.

Skyring said :

As an airport, Sydney sucks. International transfers are a pain, the layout is inefficient, the parking is expensive.

Canberra has its parking problems, but otherwise I find it a pleasure to use, at least on the Qantas side. That’s now, anyway. For years and years it was a confusing nightmare of roadworks and potholes.

I drive out there most days and it is still a confusing nightmare of roadworks with not enough signage and the signage needs to be set further away to give more warning to people who don’t go there often.

Not going to read a Daily Telegraph article on airport lists. But Google ‘Sydney Airport worst’ or even ‘Australia airport worst’ for some opinions on Sydney Airport. Now it’s the 2nd favourite Australian airport…

I can’t find much to complain about the facilities at Canberra Airport. As airports go, it seems… functional.

Is Mr Snow going to build flats out there one day ? Be nice sittin out on the balcony with a good red watchin’ the planes take off. Have enough red and the noise won’t worry you.

Snow certainly plans to build a hotel out at the airport, and I bet he has a secondary plan to then turn bits of it into units. There’s all that land to the east of the airport too, I’d eat one of my smaller and more palatable hats if he wasn’t eyeing that and thinking about housing.

Sydney airport is utter crap! The fact that you cannot walk to each terminal is a fatal flaw, even the dreadful LAX allows that (if you have time, feet and a good trolley). Sydney airport is in effect two airports. Even funny old Melbourne is better, you can walk to all bits, and there’s a civilised thing, they have showers with hot water in most of the toilets. Sydney has free showers but they’re hidden and most don’t find them.

It was based on a Wotif survey, which I could find on the site. Admittedly, I wasn’t looking very hard.

It has always frustrated me so much that people outside of the ACT, regard Darwin & Hobart as cities but classify Canberra as a large country town. Morons.

Of course this article was written in the Daily Telegraph. What was the headline story today? Something about Lara Bingle or Kim Kardashian?

I guess I can understand Canberra being left off, as it really can’t be judged while it’s in such a huge transition. Unfortunately it probably was, though! But I don’t understand Melbourne being the top airport; it’s the ugliest airport in the entire country! Maybe it’s just that it’s in Melbourne and the voters thought location mattered?

I haven’t been to all the airports on that list, but I’m surprised Brisbane isn’t at the top. The domestic terminal is much the same as all the others, but the international terminal is top-notch. When there is a choice, I always take international flights to/from Brisbane (not just because of the airport, but because the flights are a little less crowded (woops, did I say that out loud? I was supposed to keep it to myself)). Adelaide has a nice airport too…

dph said :

Of course this article was written in the Daily Telegraph. What was the headline story today? Something about Lara Bingle or Kim Kardashian?

Spot on. This is actually Lara Bingle’s list of Favourite Australian Airports with a stock photo of Lara in a bikini taking up the other half of the page.

Journalists are go!

Mr Snow already owns housing at Fairbairn.

Both Cairns and Canberra have more passengers per year than Hobart or Darwin.

Whilst I don’t know why Cairns was ignored, but we don’t even have Jetstar services here, which puts us right out of the price range for the average daily tele reader.

Who has a favourite airport? Least appalling more like it (just like ACT elections).

There is no airport, anywhere in Australia or indeed the whole world, where anyone sane would choose to go unless they had to.

Sydney is particularly appalling, like an expensive Westfield which does a sideline in airplanes.

LAX is the worst airport anywhere though.

qbngeek said :

Skyring said :

Canberra has its parking problems, but otherwise I find it a pleasure to use, at least on the Qantas side. That’s now, anyway. For years and years it was a confusing nightmare of roadworks and potholes.

I drive out there most days and it is still a confusing nightmare of roadworks with not enough signage and the signage needs to be set further away to give more warning to people who don’t go there often.

As a cabbie for five years I told my passengers as we bounced over a section of tarmac that used to be carpark that used to be pedestrian walkway that used to be hangar floor, “Every day’s a new adventure out here!”

The lack of a good passenger pickup area is the main problem now.

@EvanJames, you are being way too kind, describing LAX as merely “dreadful”. Canberra shines in comparison, not least the integrity of the design. Thank goodness that the new terminal replaces the old, rather than merely adding onto it as is usually the case.

It’s got a really nice set of lounges for those who are into lounges. Shame the Business Lounge faces the carpark, but they are both big and well equipped.

I’ve heard people complain about signage, but my understanding is that once the whole thing is complete, with the big glass atrium at the end of the pickup/dropoff ramps linking the Qantas and Virgin sides, it will all become crystal clear where to go.

Jim Snow cops a lot of flak around here, but when i think back to the tacky little shed we used to have, he’s done a marvellous job at giving Canberra not just a decent airport, but one that’s out in front of most.

So other than a few minor swaps of places it appears to be ranked in order of number of flights, which makes sense as most of the wotif survey takers, probably have not been to all those airports anyway. After all, they got their cheap flight to the gold coast and now looking for cheap hotels. Perfectly OK but explains how the rankings were devised.

A similar survey for frequent flyers would probably have a different list. Personally I have fond memories of the serve yourself bar fridge in the Hobart Qantas club.

Lazy I said :

dph said :

Of course this article was written in the Daily Telegraph. What was the headline story today? Something about Lara Bingle or Kim Kardashian?

Spot on. This is actually Lara Bingle’s list of Favourite Australian Airports with a stock photo of Lara in a bikini taking up the other half of the page.

Journalists are go!

They are indeed!

The Telegraph should hire a couple!

EvanJames said :

Snow certainly plans to build a hotel out at the airport, and I bet he has a secondary plan to then turn bits of it into units. There’s all that land to the east of the airport too, I’d eat one of my smaller and more palatable hats if he wasn’t eyeing that and thinking about housing.

Sydney airport is utter crap! The fact that you cannot walk to each terminal is a fatal flaw, even the dreadful LAX allows that (if you have time, feet and a good trolley). Sydney airport is in effect two airports. Even funny old Melbourne is better, you can walk to all bits, and there’s a civilised thing, they have showers with hot water in most of the toilets. Sydney has free showers but they’re hidden and most don’t find them.

The domestic and international terminals at the airport at Amsterdam (Schiphol or Shithole as the locals call it) are joined by walkway but it takes 20 – 30 minutes to push your trolley between them. The security staff are the rudest I’ve ever met. This is a real shame because it is KLMs hub port and KLM are a great airline. The transfer between domestic and international in Sydney is dreadful for this day and age. They need the underground rail at the domestic terminal to link with the international. They have something like this in Barajas, Madrid and it only costs 3 euros to go anywhere in Madrid from there by the metro. (3 euros! No wonder Spain is broke)

I like it simply because it’s small! Ginormous airports lose their appeal rather quickly…

Canberra was voted 2011 Worst Airport, REGION: SOUTH PACIFIC, Runner-Up by sleepinginairpots.net. http://www.sleepinginairports.net/oceania/canberra.htm#.TyuSwtVDR74 Not sure what they base it on. Love that website though. Never travel to an airport for the first time without consulting it.

PS: that Worst Airport award was in relation to staying at the airport on an overnight stopover though, so no wonder that they scored badly.

On international trips, I try to arrange to fly through Melbourne instead of Sydney (but usually fail as there are slightly fewer flights to/from Canberra-Melbourne compared with Canberra-Sydney) because transit time between domestic and international terminals is so much shorter in Melbourne. And Sydney even have the gall to charge you for the transfer bus. Worse still, if you choose to drive to Sydney, the long-stay parking free bus only goes to the domestic terminal, then you pay to catch another bus to international. Not just an infuriatingly slow process, but also adds to the cost. Awful.

IP