Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Expert Explains Hidden Airport Design Tricks That Guide Travelers | WSJ Pro Perfected" video.

  1. Krakow and Istanbul airports are quite far from the city, but are still very much accessible by public transit. Mainly because there's greater usage of public transit over self-driving in general.
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  2. I'd have to return after they're all done with the construction at Schiphol, as I wasn't so impressed going through there (both Schengen and foreign). That is if EU entry there didn't take so freakin long and Amsterdam wasn't so darn pricey. But yeah having the train station embedded underneath the terminal is fantastic, and felt much more organic than say Frankfurt or Shanghai Hongqiao.
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  3. I'd give top marks to Doha, and I wouldn't mind an extended layover in the new Istanbul terminal. Changi has the annoying gate checkpoints, and Dubai is basically one long badly-lit shopping mall.
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  4. Ironically the earliest airport terminals were modeled more like train stations, and wayfinding sucked.
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  5. I think the space needed is a big part of the intimidation, because planes side by side require a lot more room than buses or trains and their associated platforms.
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  6. Because how much is it worth for you to clear security (if not also immigration) for the local price of that one thing?
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  7. ORD and YYZ didn't seem so bad compared to like LOS and MNL
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  8. US airports are also much older, built in a time when the airlines themselves were the biggest influence on airport design. Human-centered airport architecture didn't really arise until after the Soviet collapse and civil aviation really took off following America's deregulation shakeup.
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  9. Security at the gate is so annoying though. I'd rather be done with it along with check-in and exit immigration.
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  10. ATL is all about efficiency, down to often feeling like the inside of a hangar. It likewise never gets praise as a place people enjoy being in.
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