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I fly often and I think the airport hate is overblown. Airports are designed to keep large groups of passengers moving as efficiently as possible, and as a res

I fly often and I think the airport hate is overblown. Airports are designed to keep large groups of passengers moving as efficiently as possible, and as a result they need to make some tradeoffs. Airports aren't and shouldn't really be designed for sleeping - there's a thing called hotels for that. A lot of airports have capsule hotels paid per hour for exactly this purpose. The root cause seems to be airlines aren't actually forced to provide enough compensation to cover a hotel. Regulation would be a much easier solution than redesigning airport to accommodate sleeping. Only complaint I agree with is the "please do not leave your bags unattended" spam on the PA. Whoever came up with that idea deserves a couple years of solitary confinement with said PA in the cell, for increasing the danger due to alert fatigue and people completely tuning out the PA, making the channel completely worthless.

code_biologist 8mo ago
Sure, but LAX is uniquely hostile. All of the other LA/OC airports are way better.
- nephihaha 8mo ago
  Haven't been to the others, but have found most major airports around the world are hostile. They are designed so you aren't comfortable unless you are forking out a lot of money to be in a bar or restaurant, or a business lounge. Everything is overpriced, even the buses going in and out of them.
nephihaha 8mo ago
Not for me. I find them very unpleasant spaces, representing a lot of what is wrong with the modern world. You say hotels are designed for sleeping, but people get stuck in airports due to delays and sometimes can't go outside them due to border control in many countries. Airports almost always sell everything at vastly inflated prices and are designed to take every penny off you. At Edinburgh Airport, some years ago, the staff were even disallowed free drinking water from a bar even though the entire place is full of air conditioning. No idea if that has changed but heard that off someone who worked there.

code_biologist 8mo ago

Sure, but LAX is uniquely hostile. All of the other LA/OC airports are way better.

nephihaha 8mo ago
Haven't been to the others, but have found most major airports around the world are hostile. They are designed so you aren't comfortable unless you are forking out a lot of money to be in a bar or restaurant, or a business lounge. Everything is overpriced, even the buses going in and out of them.

nephihaha 8mo ago

Not for me. I find them very unpleasant spaces, representing a lot of what is wrong with the modern world. You say hotels are designed for sleeping, but people get stuck in airports due to delays and sometimes can't go outside them due to border control in many countries. Airports almost always sell everything at vastly inflated prices and are designed to take every penny off you. At Edinburgh Airport, some years ago, the staff were even disallowed free drinking water from a bar even though the entire place is full of air conditioning. No idea if that has changed but heard that off someone who worked there.