For many, traveling generates some stress and if it is by plane, even more so: having all the documentation up to date, not forgetting anything important and arrive on time to the airport so as not to miss the flight.
In addition to all that, there is airports Due to its large size, lack of organization or a high rate of delays, nervousness increases even more.
Visa Guide Worlda site specialized in visa information, made a ranking of which airports are more stressful of the world.
For this, we took into account the 30 largest airports and surveyed 1,642 passengersof 53 different nationalities, who made at least two international air trips during 2023.
They were asked what factors cause them the most stress when traveling abroad. And the answers pointed to:
- high number of passengers;
- large airports, where it can be difficult to get from one place to another due to their surface area;
- frequency of flight delays
- distance to the city center.
Based on these responses, a formula to create the ranking by calculating the following factors:
- Total number of passengers
- Airport size in square meters
- Passenger density per square meter
- Proportion of annual delays
- Distance to center in kilometers
The most stressful airports in the world
London airport Gatwick, in the United Kingdom, took first place on this list. Its about second busiest of the United Kingdom and is one of two British airports on this list.
In second place is the one in Istanbul of Türkiye (formerly Türkiye). This is the seventh busiest in the world. According to the pollsters, this position is due to its big size makes it difficult for passengers to reach checkpoints or boarding gates quickly.
View of Munich Airport, Germany. Munich Airport in Germany came in third place followed by Denver International Airport, considered the largest in the United States. The top 5 closes with Heathrow airport, one of the gateways to London.
Then, there is the Los Angeles International Airport, which has the higher density of travelers in the world.
The list of 10 most stressful also includes: Fiumicino International Airport (Rome, Italy), Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport (New York, United States) and O’Hare International Airport (Chicago, United States) .
Long queues at Heathrow airport. The study concludes that airports Asian they turn out more friendly to passengers since these 10 are located between Europe and the United States. The first Asian airport to appear is Singapore Changi Airport in position number 12 with a peculiarity: it usually leads the ranking of the best airports in the world for the quantity and quality of its services.
Other air terminals that appear on the list are: Charles de Gaulle Airport (France), Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport, Tokyo Haneda Airport, Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport, Orlando International Airport, Indira Gandhi International Airport (India) , King Abdulaziz International Airport (Saudi Arabia), among others.