Originally Posted by
Sandeep1
It's a decent point but, on the flip side, American airports tend to do a few things much better than foreign airports (especially when arriving at the airport to go on our departing flight).
1) Our gates are listed hours before the flight unlike foreign airports where passengers are typically left walking and pacing back and forth until their gates are listed 30-45 minutes before departure time. That's super annoying.
2) At American airports, we don't need to catch a bus from the gate to the plane to board. We simply walk to our gate and board right there in a very orderly fashion. When having to bus to the gate, once you exit the bus, it's a giant free-for-all with people running to the stairs which creates quite a stressful environment.
So, my return question to the OP would be, why do foreigners tolerate the above?
3) USA airports rarely put passengers into a holding pen or announce boarding well before any customer can actually enter the aircraft. It's silly in European airports to have separate "pseudoboarding" calls to the desk with time or line determined by status, cabin class, etc. only to then be forced into an area with no facilities/services until people are actually allowed to board the plane in a mad rush and all in one implicit zone or group. It's disgraceful that premium cabin and high status passengers are forced to fight and push their way onto the jetway with the mob.