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Old Dec 20, 2011 | 12:20 pm
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Wilbur
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HND: Tokyo Haneda is right downtown in Tokyo.
SDJ: Sendai is in the center of the city, easy steps from the bullet train station.
PHX: Sky Harbor is right in downtown Phoenix, which is the central city of the cities in the Valley of the Sun.
FRA: Frankfurt - Once you escape from the corridors of FRA, the city is easily accessible.
DCA: Washington Reagan - DCA is right downtown, so you can fly in, get your meetings down with, and get the he11 out.
SAN: San Diego - it would be difficult to build a more central airport than SAN.
AMS: Amsterdam - land, get through immigration, pick up your car, then drive easily to your hotel to be wheel clamped.
VIE: Vienna makes the process of getting into town very civilized.
PIT: The airport is reasonably close to the Seven Hills, the roads and signs are decent, and the approaches are a huge improvement over the old PIT.

Avoid!
YYZ: Toronto - bad signage on the roads easily misdirect the new visitor, and the roads appear to experience constant bad traffic.
AUS: Austin - bad signage on the roads purposefully misdirect everyone, and major freeways don't even connect to each other.
NRT: Tokyo Narita - your arrival at NRT is only the start of your hot and steamy or cold and clammy journey to Tokyo.
KUL: Kuala Lumpur is not even close to the city, terrible traffic, taxis only marginally better than those in Penang.
ICN: Seoul Incheon is not really all that close to Seoul; SEL in Kimpo was much, much better. Prepare for a long ride into the city.
BKK: Suvarabhumi - Swampy's new train line now works, but only if you want to go to its terminus. The freeway is great - the entire city is usually sitting on it.
DEN: Denver - the new airport is built way out on the prairie to enable you to explore your inner Old Western Settler on the drive into town.

Transfer limbo!
Slightly OT: Bombay Domestic to Bombay International equals the old Jakarta Domestic to Jakarta International for unpleasant cross-town transfers.
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