World's Best Airports - Yet Another Poll

[PeterRS]

How valuable these polls are is always questionable. Yet Skytrax has gained in popularity if only because its voters are (mostly) real travellers and it has a huge respondent base. So here are its 2025 top 10.

1. Singapore Changi Airport

2. Doha Hamad International Airport

3. Tokyo Haneda Airport

4. Seoul Incheon International Airport

5. Tokyo Narita International Airport

6. Hong Kong International Airport

7. Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport

8. Rome Fiumicino Airport

9. Munich Airport

10. Zurich Airport

Not really surprising that the top six are all in Asia. Nine are in Europe. The only one from North America is Vancouver at #13. Top US airport is Houston Hobby (never head of it! It seems it has just one international route to Dusseldorf - and so I have to wonder how did it gain so many votes?). Houston George Bush comes in at 33 but pipped by New York's LGA at #29. Perhaps not surprisingly JFK is way down at #89. 

https://www.worldairportawards.com/worlds-top-100-airports-2025/

[reader]

Agree that Changi deserves top spot.

I most frequently transit Narita and find it efficient and easy to navigate due to good signage.

Doha is a sleek airport but I've gone to bus gates there too often.

 

[TMax]

Yeah no surprises with Changi coming in at number 1.

[khaolakguy]

I am not surprised to see Rome Fiumicino in the top ten. I recently transited there and was impressed by how friendly and helpful everyone was. The ITA lounge was great!

Actually I was surprised what an overall step forward ITA had taken compared to the old Alitalia.

[Keithambrose]

9 hours ago, PeterRS said:

How valuable these polls are is always questionable. Yet Skytrax has gained in popularity if only because its voters are (mostly) real travellers and it has a huge respondent base. So here are its 2025 top 10.

1. Singapore Changi Airport

2. Doha Hamad International Airport

3. Tokyo Haneda Airport

4. Seoul Incheon International Airport

5. Tokyo Narita International Airport

6. Hong Kong International Airport

7. Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport

8. Rome Fiumicino Airport

9. Munich Airport

10. Zurich Airport

Not really surprising that the top six are all in Asia. Nine are in Europe. The only one from North America is Vancouver at #13. Top US airport is Houston Hobby (never head of it! It seems it has just one international route to Dusseldorf - and so I have to wonder how did it gain so many votes?). Houston George Bush comes in at 33 but pipped by New York's LGA at #29. Perhaps not surprisingly JFK is way down at #89. 

https://www.worldairportawards.com/worlds-top-100-airports-2025/

I always regard these polls with suspicious ion. I recall reading that there were terrible immigration  queues at Incheon,  for example. Also,  I find Charles de Gaulle a mess. I'm surprised  that any US airport is anywhere near the top!

[reader]

Long arrival or departure queues can give even otherwise good airports poor marks, and deservedly so. On my last three flights out of  US, luggage inspection has been speeded up noticeably at locations where TSA has installed new explosive detection screeners. No longer have to remove anything from carry-on bags.

These are same machines used to scan bags going into luggage compartments.

 

 

[Olddaddy]

Phillipines Ninoy Aquino had to be the worst followed by Sydney Airport 

Malaysia 🇲🇾 wasn't happy I had to get a bus from one side to the other .. ridiculous 😞 

[BjornAgain]

You'll be hard pressed to beat Barra Airport on the Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

The world's only commercial airport that has a beach as the runway.

For those of you that remember the Crompton Mackenzie novel Whisky Galore!, based on the sinking of the SS Politician in 1941 off Eriskay, or the subsequent films, this is only 5km away, with people today still finding the odd bottle!

[floridarob]

9 hours ago, Keithambrose said:

I'm surprised  that any US airport is anywhere near the top

Other than long security lines at times, due to the volume of people (with children 🥺) MCO- Orlando Florida has always been my favorite airport in the US.

Land side check in to monorail for the gates.... hardly anytime from takeoff or landings, whereas so many airports you can taxi for 30 mins to an hour....

The Brightline train station to Fort Lauderdale and Miami is right in the Airport, terminal C..... 

Then there's this:

 

• Airport Planning:

  Disney has been involved in discussions about airport improvements and new terminal construction, highlighting their influence on airport development

   
• Disney's Influence:

  While not directly controlling MCO, Disney's influence is evident in the airport's operations