Flight delays, long flights, expensive parking – these are the airports we should avoid in Europe if we knew it.
Airports can be gateways to adventure, but they can also be very stressful. Ideally, we arrive a few hours before the flight departs, go through security quickly and board on time. However, things don’t always go smoothly.
The car rental experts at StressFreeCarRental.com tried to figure out which European airports are most likely to have a smooth flight, by examining things like
Such as airport passenger traffic, distance from the city center, parking fees for one week, number of airport restaurants, frequency of departure delays, and Wi-Fi speed.
Based on these factors, the ten most stressful (and least stressful) airports in Europe have been determined.
The questionable first place went to Charles de Gaulle in Paris, as the airport in France tops the list of airports that cause the most stress. On the one hand, because more than 57 million passengers go there every year, and on the other hand, the airport is forty kilometers away from the city center, which means that the trip there seems very difficult.
It is not surprising that famous tourist centers such as Rome, London, Munich, Amsterdam and Istanbul top the list. With recent cancellations of flights, summer strikes (which have since been cancelled) and huge crowds over the festive period, there is no news that London’s Heathrow and Gatwick are second and third respectively.
Even with a half-hour commute from the city, Frankfurt Airport ranks seventh, as it’s the most expensive place to park a car for a week (€234, about HUF 87,000) — that’s a big difference compared to the cheapest place in Rome, Leonardo da Vinci’s Fiumicino, where you only have to pay twenty euros (about HUF 7,500) for seven days.
Here are the most stressful European airports according to the survey:
- Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris
- Heathrow Airport, London
- Gatwick Airport, London
- Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino Airport, Rome
- Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam
- Munich Airport, Munich
- Frankfurt Airport, Frankfurt
- Adolfo Suarez Madrid Barajas Airport, Madrid
- Istanbul Airport, Istanbul
- Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport Barcelona
A less stressful arrangement has also been prepared, led by a Danish airport:
- Billund Airport, Billund
- Luxembourg Airport, Luxembourg
- Vilnius International Airport, Vilnius
- Menorca Airport, Menorca
- Hanover Airport, Hanover
- Newcastle Airport, Newcastle
- Corfu International Airport, Corfu
- Trondheim Airport, Trondheim
- Turin Airport, Turin
- Cagliari Elmas Airport, Sardinia
So the airport can be stressful. It’s a place where even the most experienced of travelers can sometimes experience a quick nervous breakdown or two. Most of the time, these stressful situations are caused by the misbehavior of passengers, so we have collected the most annoying of them, and also give useful tips from etiquette experts to avoid annoying situations.
(source: time out(Images: Unsplash, Getty Images)
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