Airports you’ve used

NollagShona

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Manchester has one, but it's basically a random door behind one of the bars, brings you out to a sh1tty rooftop. Most of the uk airports are non-existant smoking areas (if anyone knows where there one in T2 in Heathrow, I'd be very grateful)

Smoking at Heathrow Airport (LHR)

Smoking Rating

5

Before and After Security Smoking

Smoking is only permitted in designated areas outside the terminals.

The smoking facilities inside the terminal are listed below.

Electronic Cigarettes are also prohibited.

Heathrow Terminal 1

No Smoking areas.

Heathrow Terminal 2

No Smoking areas.

Heathrow Terminal 3

Smoking at Heathrow airport T3, connecting flights. After you arrive by bus you go inside and turn left and left again. Follow the big yellow sign and you can smoke outside in a kind of fenced cage. Photo below, feedback from Laila B. on the 17th December 2017.

Passed through London Heathrow (LHR) in July 2017, transiting from terminal 3 to terminal 2. Was delighted to discover that there is now a smoking area in Terminal 3 for transit passengers. Follow the purple signs for transit to other terminals. The smoking area is at one side of the bus stop to the other terminals. It is a fenced outdoor cage but is better than the nothing that LHR offered within the security perimeter before. Feedback from Neil U.

Heathrow Terminal 4

October 2017, Heathrow Terminal 4 departures: The smoking area after security near gate 6-9 still exists, despite many sites claiming the contrary. Phew. Feedback from MJ.

Smoking area available. It is on the left side on the way to gate 6. Just 2 stairs down and that it. From Denis, 10th July 2017.

Update from Sara, 5th Oct 2016: Terminal 4 definitely has a smoking area. It is between gates 6B and 7 downstairs.

Heathrow Terminal 5

No Smoking areas.

For Forks Sake

NollagShona wrote: »

Smoking at Heathrow Airport (LHR)

Smoking Rating

5

Before and After Security Smoking

Smoking is only permitted in designated areas outside the terminals.

Yeah, I didn't think there was (and it's not for the want of looking) it's T2 and T5 I'd be through the most there.

NollagShona

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Yeah, I didn't think there was (and it's not for the want of looking) it's T2 and T5 I'd be through the most there.

I'm sure you've googled where to have a crafty fag

(As did I, and I dont mean smoking! twice DUB & LHR )

youreadthat

Ho Chi Minh
Hanoi
Kuala Lumpur
Hong Kong
Zurich
Geneva
Dublin
Alicante
Charles De Gaulle
Madrid
Santiago
Arrecife
Faro
Palma
Newquay
Heathrow
Stansted
Luton
Gatwick

I think that's it. Had to dig deep for a couple of trips.

FatherTed

For Forks Sake wrote: »

The old Kai Tak in Hong Kong was the definition of a buttock-clenching landing, the approach was barely above the roofs of apartment blocks, then a handbrake turn and drop onto the runway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksqB2MpQu9o

I went to St Maarten in the Carribbean on vacation a few years ago, the airport there is right next to the beach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD-3pU6nWGQ

Canis Lupus

SKV
HAM
IBZ
TUU
TAK
HLZ
RYK
EMA
ABJ
DLD

smurfjed

Zaph said:

They do that all the time in the Aviation & Aircraft forum. Very off-putting for the casual reader like myself, I always get the feeling it's done deliberately to be exclusionary.

If they wanted to be exclusive, they would have used the ICAO codes rather than IATA, can you guess where EIDW or EGLL are?

JohnCleary

Not going to list the airports, but my favourite is Doha.

The First & Business Lounge was top notch. Shower Rooms, great food, plenty of drink

Schwanz

Manchester
Birmingham
Leeds/Bradford
Paris
Faro
Palma
Malaga
Gran Canaria
Tenerife
Ibiza
Menorca
Valetta
Orlando
Larnaca

NollagShona

Javier Delicious Bandana wrote: »

Seriously?

what a passive aggressive post. Just cos you have no interest doesn't mean others dont either. Or your thankers!

bodhrandude

Glasgow
Edinburgh
Prestwick
Cork
Galway
Shannon
Dublin
Carrickfinn in Donegal
Copenhagen
Malmo
Milan
Stansted
Gatwick
Heathrow
London City airport
Istanbul
Schipol
Malaga

Try_harder

Adding
SVO
MSQ and
SDR next year

Graces7

Last time i flew was my migration from Scotland to Ireland....London Airport,Eday, ( one flight a week) to Kirkwall Airport Orkney, then to Edinburgh Airport... planes grew in size with each flight starting with a tiny Islander.

Next flight will be my very very last; chopper to the mainland when my spirit is freed. Special flight! i

dunroamin!

mikemac2

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Farranfore, Europe's JFK

Do they still line everyone up and put them on a weighing scales for all to see ?

Collie D

Try_harder wrote: »

Adding
SVO
MSQ and
SDR next year

OK, I know SVO is Moscow because I was looking at flights transferring through there recently but I can’t figure out the other two without looking them up. Why not use the full names? I can’t be the only one without a clue.

For what it’s worth I’ll have a guess before Googling.

MSQ could be another Moscow airport?
SDR...San Diego?

EDIT: Looked then and was literally miles away. At least I can see the logic behind the naming convention on these ones.

Try_harder

Graces7 wrote: »

Last time i flew was my migration from Scotland to Ireland....London Airport,Eday, ( one flight a week) to Kirkwall Airport Orkney, then to Edinburgh Airport... planes grew in size with each flight starting with a tiny Islander.

Next flight will be my very very last; chopper to the mainland when my spirit is freed. Special flight! i

dunroamin!

That is the only way you would get me in a helicopter

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Try_harder wrote: »

That is the only way you would get me in a helicopter

A fantastic way to fly. I went by helicopter from North Louth to Achill during the year and it's the only way to see the country, magical.

Try_harder

Javier Delicious Bandana wrote: »

A fantastic way to fly. I went by helicopter from North Louth to Achill during the year and it's the only way to see the country, magical.

Nope!

Graces7

Try_harder wrote: »

That is the only way you would get me in a helicopter

Ah I would love it alive! But will only happen when my soul has fled... or if I need hospital ... when I lived on a North Sea island we had the air ambulance islander plane.... one baby was born in the hangar as it arrived rather fast. life and death service. We had a runway; some of the islands had only a field.

P_1

Dublin, it has its faults but on the whole its not too an airport really
Birmingham, really handy, train station is literally right next door
Manchester, awful, just awful
Stansted, in the middle of nowhere in Essex, false economy flying there for London
Gatwick, closer to London but a bit of a kip
Luton, similar to the 2 above
London City, fantastic. Straight onto a DLR once you land. Definitely worth spending the extra few bob on if flying to London
East Midlands, horrific
Edinburgh, a fine little airport tho get the bus into town rather than the tram
Prestwick, well I'm just glad no one flys there anymore. You have a nice view of Troon links when waiting for your train but that's about it
Schiphol, fantastic, utterly fantastic
Bilbao, a fine little airport
Marseille, miles away from town but a nice drive through the mountains to get there
Bremen, well it's a shed
Hamburg, not a bad one
Dusseldorf, fine airport, handy for the train
Lodz, small and massive queues at passport control
Warsaw, very old school

dodzy

Try_harder wrote: »

Nope!

Try harder:P

holystungun9

NollagShona wrote: »

DUB to ORY

Can you take some more Dubs to ORY please?

orourkeda1977

holystungun9 wrote: »

Can you take some more Dubs to ORY please?

Leaving the culchies behind as usual

Collie D

holystungun9 wrote: »

Can you take some more Dubs to ORY please?

Such wit

suicide_circus

Dublin is utterly crippled by it's lack of a rail link. Queues of tourists waiting for the Aircoach or worse still the DB Airlink is just embarrassing. DUB is busier than Brussels, Zurich, Berlin, Lisbon, Manchester, Copenhagen, Stansted, Oslo, Helsinki, Malaga, Athens, Vienna....and relies 100% on fooking buses.

rainbowtrout

SNN
NOC
ORK
DUB
LHR
STN
EDI
BRS
YYZ
JFK
LAX
BVA
MAD
BRU
CRL
AMS
TXL
SXF
KRK
TLL
VIE
GVA
MIL
MAN
CPH
ARL
TRF
LED
DME
TFS
FCO
PRG
KEF
KUL
HAN
DAD
CXR
SGN
HND
NRT
SFJ

EICVD

YYZ
JFK
DUB
BHD
GLA
MAN
BHX
LHR
LGW
SOU
HAM
BTS
FCO
CIA
PMI
TLS
CCF
ACE

White Clover

Been through a good few including some of the bigger ones like Kerry and Cardiff!

rossie1977

suicide_circus wrote: »

Dublin is utterly crippled by it's lack of a rail link. Queues of tourists waiting for the Aircoach or worse still the DB Airlink is just embarrassing. DUB is busier than Brussels, Zurich, Berlin, Lisbon, Manchester, Copenhagen, Stansted, Oslo, Helsinki, Malaga, Athens, Vienna....and relies 100% on fooking buses.

Major airports that don't have rail links are a pain in the ass. 10 minutes into centre of Zurich by train with trains every few minutes, 7 minutes into Frankfurt.

Dublin is bad but Rio who hosted the Olympics and world cup recently have no direct rail link from it's international airport. They will bus you to nearest rail station which is next to a favela, of course make sure to get the right bus back (buses have same numbers).

LAX is another. Good luck landing there between 4-6pm weekday and wanting to travel downtown or Hollywood.

EICVD

kfrp wrote: »

Up there with the worst ever threads on Boards.

Who would want to see the airports that someone was at or even be bothered typing up a list in the first place.

Says the poster who posts about Lidl, Leeds FC & Tipperary Town hahahaha