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As a pax DXB. Amazing, user friendly and very comfortable exec lounges. The EK 1st class lounge is just incredible.

As a driver Cairo was the worst. I will probably be out voted on this.

Least favourite, Jeddah arrivals.
Most favourite, Jeddah departures

Changi is number one for me. So many memories. I used to take the kids there on Sunday mornings. Planes, grub, hustle, bustle and lots of Asian girls wanting their pictures taken with lovely Ang Mo children!

Kai Tak number two, just for the approach.

Here you go Angels-if I've done it right!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PCOcyt7BPI&NR=1=/a*

WOW great video limeygal, thank you.

om15 you would probably have got a ban for that on t'other site. Exec lounge facing East

Angels, Kai Tak, Rwy 13 enormous fun. I always thought that the right wing tip would take the laundry drying on the approach lights on the roofs off. Wonder how many aircraft landed with a pair of knickers or a bra attached?

There used to be a framed letter from the Duke of Edinburgh expressing his admiration
of those who flew into Kai Tak hanging on the wall of the Flying Club there.
I wonder what has happened to it.

As for favourite airport, East Midlands Airport. Not because it's a great airport but solely due
to the fact that it only takes me 10 minutes to get home from there.

I remember being at Kai Tak when the China Airlines 747 went swimming of the end of the runway in 1993.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TBssWn3dS4

Sorry I forgot MUB. You can check in then go across the road to a town pub until 15 mins before departure. Wander back to the terminal, security, immigration, then stroll across the apron just in time for the doors to close. Mind you if everyone did this it wouldn't work.

MUB has a runway that will take 747s and a terminal that struggles with 50 pax. First came here in 1984 on a Royal Flight. The terminal was a tin shack so things are getting better. The terminal bar/resturant has been closed for at least a year now as everyone just goes across the road.

This is what a proper airport should look like. Kokoda, PNG forty years ago.

Worst airport I ever used was Titograd, now Podgorica.
Fly ridden hell hole.

Perfect for Bob the Builder to while away the hours waiting for his FR to arrive is Perpignan, PPG, France. They have been rebuilding it for the past year - without closing it. Well, not quite true: they closed all the toilets for six months. (Pause for Gallic Shrug in response to asking "ou et les lavabos ?). Most amusing carrying your suitcase through heaps of sand, over breezeblocks, falling over REBARS and having someone using an angle grinder two foot from your head when trying to check in.....

I'm sure when finished it will be lovely.....

Thanks Limeygal. I can't find my photo of the terminal but this place will always stay in my memory as making me very welcome.

Alisoncc's photo reminds me of the old terminal on the island of Naxos. It had a dog section next to it ;called a kennel. The public address system was an employee sticking his or her head out of the office and shouting the announcement!

I was going to post this the other day but the photo reminded me of the airport "building" at Maningrida
an Aboriginal town in Far North Arnhemland (Aus).

LG thank you for that clip couldn't watch it until we came into town.

I have landed there many times. We had to do it in the sim first and then the first time you had to have a captain in one of the seats who had been there before. Never had a problem. Didn't see any CX cock ups there!

Enjoyed the clip LG. Only got to fly into KT a couple of times, neither at the pointy end unfortunately. But in the same spirit these are of the approach and the strip itself at Tapini in the mountains of PNG. Did a solo nav exercise there for my ppl. No go rounds due to large mountain at the top end of the runway. Once you started rolling for take-off you were committed. See my little Cherokee 180 - sweet isn't it. The strip itself is center left in the first photograph.

Bloody hell Alison. I did Cambridge, Ipswich for my PPL and still got lost. My best one was Cranwell to Upper Heyford in a JP3. 250' 300 kts fortunately with an instructor. Turned onto 280° at some point instead of 180°. Only one digit out, anyone can make that mistake. After the requisite time I announced that I had Upper Heyford on the nose. 'I have control bloggs' 6g U turn. Apparently it was MAN.

Thus began a career of always flying with a navigator.

My favourite is Brunei International. Least favourite was New Delhi, where I was made to pay a bribe under threat of violence before I was allowed airside to prepare our aircraft for departure.

My favorite airport, in the whole wide world , is hands-down CLT - Charlotte International in Charlotte, NC, USA.