Airport reviews
- ★★★½
- Indonesia
This airport is hot, humid, dated and underwhelming
Indonesia’s biggest airport is not going to win any beauty contests and its design seems to undermine the air-conditioning.
- Jenny Hewett
- ★★★★
- Byron Bay
This in-demand region’s airport got an upgrade. It may need another soon
Fresh from a $20 million upgrade, this is a great regional hub. But given the growing popularity of all things Byron, the terminal might need to grow.
- Shaney Hudson
- ★★★★½
- Abu Dhabi
Inside the $4.8 billion ‘world’s most beautiful airport’
It’s an increasingly popular stopover spot for Australians and was striking enough for Tom Cruise to shoot a major Mission Impossible scene in.
- Anthony Dennis
- ★★★
- Air travel
Award-winning Australian airport still has nowhere to sit
For a hub that was named Australia’s 2022 Airport of the Year – fresh from a $14 million upgrade – a few seats wouldn’t go astray.
- Belinda Jackson
- ★★★★
- London
London’s once-awful airport is Europe’s most improved
If they’d only increased the natural light, this could have been a perfect makeover.
- David Whitley
- ★★★
- Maldives
Fast food, no booze: This airport doesn’t live up to its luxury locale
It’s an island paradise but its international terminal is dark, dingy and so hot, I have to roll up my “flying” pants.
- Jenny Hewett
- ★★★
- Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam’s busiest airport has one great feature others should adopt
The queues are horrendous but everyone is in a good mood, helped by the fact that they can still see their loved ones.
- Belinda Jackson
- ★★★★½
- London
The small London airport that puts the others to shame
A departure point for easyJet to Europe, London Southend is growing rapidly, taking pressure off other London airports that are fast approaching capacity.
- Catherine Marshall
Inside the (shabby) airport at the end of the world
This a magnificently located airport, but any sense of wide-open space and adventure is abandoned at the entrance.
- Brian Johnston
This is the ultimate airport for aviation geeks
Anyone with even a passing interest in planes will be fascinated by the collection of aviation curios that call Toulouse-Blagnac home.
- Chrissie McClatchy
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