While some countries are having their airports ranked the best or among the best in 2015, Nigeria came top on the list of worst airports.
Changi International Airport, Singapore, was named the best, Port Harcourt International Airport was named the worst international airport in the world for the year 2015.
Of the 10 worst international airports in the world, the Port Harcourt airport was the only African airport on the list.
In a report published by CNNMoney and released by The Guide to Sleeping in Airports – an internationally respected travel website – the other airports on the list were from Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
The survey, had qualifying responses from 26,297 well-travelled respondents, put Cape Town International Airport, South Africa, as the best airport on the continent.
According to the survey, the Nigerian airport is permeated with unpleasant and unhelpful staff, alleged corruption, a severe lack of seating, broken air-conditioning and the fact that the arrivals hall is loacted inside a tent.
The website said the good news, however, is that “some areas of the terminal have been recently renovated, meaning you can expect actual walls, floors and windows. Though it is a far cry from reasonable, improvements are being made.”
Worst airports of 2015
- Port Harcourt International Airport (Nigeria)
- King Abdulaziz International Airport (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
- Tribhuvan International Airport (Kathmandu, Nepal)
- Tashkent International Airport (Uzbekistan)
- Simon Bolivar International Airport (Caracas, Venezuela)
- Toussaint Louverture International Airport (Port au Prince, Haiti)
- Hamid Karzai International Airport (Kabul, Afghanistan)
- Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
- Benazir Bhutto International Airport (Islamabad, Pakistan)
- Beauvais-Tille International Airport (Paris)
Best airports of 2015
Singapore’s Changi International, as it has for the last two decades, held onto the top spot.
“It’s hard to know where to begin when it comes to describing the airport’s strengths,” said Sleeping in Airports.
“Perhaps, it’s the extreme efficiency experienced when moving from the airplane to the city centre? Or maybe it’s the luxurious layover indulgences, which include a fish spa, a sauna, a butterfly garden, showers and a koi pond?”
The top 10 list was dominated by Asian airports, with Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei and Hong Kong rounding out the top five.
- Changi International Airport (Singapore)
- Incheon International Airport (Seoul, South Korea)
- Haneda International Airport (Tokyo, Japan)
- Taoyuan International Airport (Taipei, Taiwan)
- Hong Kong International Airport
- Munich International Airport (Germany)
- Helsinki International Airport (Finland)
- Vancouver International Airport (Canada)
- Kuala Lumpur International Airport (Malaysia)
- Kloten International Airport (Zurich, Switzerland)
