Journey

By Alex Mitchell

You may encounter some turbulence ready for a connection at these airports.

A brand new itemizing of the ten worst American airports for layovers was lately launched and it not solely highlights a infamous tri-state location but in addition options the journey hub the place infamous “not actual” girl Tiffany Gomas had her in-flight meltdown final summer season.

MarketWatch’s evaluation of those not prime ten journey spots graded the airports’ options on a five-star foundation.

Their common seat availability and cleanliness have been rated at 2.9 and the common meals and beverage employees service score was a measly 3.2. The highest airports in all soared properly above in all classes of meals and purchasing.

The notorious Newark Worldwide (EWR) was discovered to be the fifth worst layover airport — including to its corridor of disgrace because the airport with essentially the most flight cancellations and one of many worst total in North America. It was tied with Orlando Worldwide for the worst mid-priced outlets within the U.S. and in addition tanked in different classes included within the knowledge. Orlando was ranked the worst airport total for layovers.

Final September, a $78 meal from EWR went viral, simply across the time it was flagged as a savvy traveler’s no-fly zone. In the newest report, Newark was given three stars on seat availability, 2.5 on public space cleanliness and entry to energy charging areas and three.5 on meals and beverage employees service.

Tenth on the listing was Dallas-Fort Price Worldwide, the place the Halloween costume inspiring Gomas was faraway from a flight for her mysterious hallucination and tirade claiming a passenger was “not actual.”

Conversely, JFK was named the ninth-best airport for layovers within the U.S. and the second-best for frequent flyers.

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