Southwest Airlines 737 landing at Portland International Airport
Photo courtesy of Vector1771 via FlickrThe December 2007
issue of
Travel + Leisure magazine has come out with its list of the best and worst airports in the United States. Among the top 3 best:
- Portland International Airport- the magazine lauded it for having only 16% of its flights delayed in 2007. PDX also reached the top in 2007 after not even being in the top 10 in 2006; and
- Salt Lake City International and and San Diego International airports- both had only 17% of their flights delayed. SLC drops one position after being tops in 2006, while SAN rose 2 spots.
Rounding out the rest of the list were Los Angeles International; Tampa International; Oakland International; Houston Intercontinental; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Orlando; and St. Louis.
Terminal 5 at Chicago O'Hare Photo courtesy of Chicago Department of Aviation
Bottoming out the three worst airports are:
- Chicago O'Hare International and JFK International airports - the magazine rapped both airports for having 35% of their flights delayed in 2007. O'Hare and it stayed on the top of the worst from 2006.
- Newark International- at 35% of flights delayed, it just squeaked under O'Hare and JFK.
- Philadelphia International - at 34% flight delays, the airline remained number4 year over year despite dropping 7 percentage points.
The rest of the pack includes: Charlotte-Douglas International; Dallas/Fort Worth International; Hartsfield-Jackson International; LaGuardia; Chicago Midway; and Miami International.
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