MSY is old but a dump, not hardly. It has always been clean and the AC works. Concourse are fairly sizable compared to the airport and others. MSY is unique and I think it is just fine. No way does the city need anything more to serve its pax especially since there is nowhere it can be located that would serve downtown better. Now if they wanted to put a new terminal on the northshore and connect the city via high speed rail that would be sweet but it is just not going to happen. In general it is a rare day when I eat at any airport but why in the world would you need to eat at MSY, it is not a HUB and very few people connect there, generally just arrival and departures. That is why there aren't more and better food options, the market for it doesn't exist.

IAH or DEN MSY is not but it is light years above the ground level concourse of IAD which always shocks me being the city that it serves. Most US airports are far older than most Asia airports.

Biggest need at MSY is something to help the crazy long C concourse security line during busy times. Doesn't bother me as I as the elite line is always empty but I feel for the ones in the other line.

Considering the population and traffic served, LGA's main terminal could use some help. It's not horrible, but certainly nothing to write home about.

MSY is pretty f'in nasty. Haven't been there since August, and I still have a bad taste in my mouth from it.

My favorite airports are:
Domestic- BOS A, EWR C, IAH E, DEN, FLL 1-C, PHL (not beautiful except A, but clean and easy), and FLO (small, old, in the middle of construction, but you can show up 15min before departure, and you'll make your flight!)

Int'l- PEK and SIN hands down. AMS and MUC in Europe are pretty good too.

I wish that MSY still had a club *A members could use.

There is no hiding the fact that MSY is just a nasty airport. Gateway to the Americas, my bottom!

100% agreed here. CO and UA have enough flights from here that they can have one. Hopefully once the merger is complete they can both occupy the same concourse and add a lounge. I won't hold my breath though.

I seriously don't know what is so nasty you guys are talking about??? I have been through this airport 100's of times and never seen it dirty.

PEK, huge but I hate it. Biggest waste of space in history and in the summer you are soaked in sweat by the time you get to your gate and in the winter you can get hypothermia waiting on the train in terminal 3.

I don't think there is any space for a lounge on the concourse that UA occupies. There certainly isn't on the concourse occupied by CO. Perhaps there is an opportunity to do a LGA-style landside lounge in that abandoned bar/restaurant to the left of the TSA checkpoint one uses to get to the CO gates.

Either that or buy out Delta's on D and boot them over to C and let the "new United" totally occupy D.

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I've been through MSY twice this year, and had a similar feeling. The gate areas need a major upgrade, as well as the feel of the airport. Seems like LAX in a way..

is it really worse than LGA?

I'd like to see this happen. Probably won't though.

[QUOTE=UA2PEK;15450769]I seriously don't know what is so nasty you guys are talking about??? I have been through this airport 100's of times and never seen it dirty.

The bathrooms are filthy and always have been. You asked why do you need to eat there and I would say because sometimes when you are waiting to fly out you are hungry. To understand why the concessions are so bad at MSY you have to go back to how they have been handed out for years. Stan "Pampy" Barre, who is now in prison still holds the largest food concession at the airport. There is a new director at the airport and I'm hoping he will make some changes.

Agree that MSY is a dump, as are most airports in the US. I am sorry to say that my home airport HNL needs a major overall too. Singapore is the best IMHO. BKK is pretty good too. KIX is good, but wish it were closer to Osaka.
MUC & AMS are good in Europe. Don't like CDG or FRA that much.

Was a weekly commuter for about the past 2 years to MSY. It's a dump. To the poster above, yes the ac works, it's normally about 55 degrees. Concessions are sparse, have poor service (the usual friday afternoon bartender at the one real bar on the C concourse takes about a minute for each dollar the beer costs, which is $8, I think) and are way over priced. Just about the only thing I could count on was the place creole carvery chicken andouille gumbo and some cornbread on the C concourse.

D is expanding and could probably make lounge space. I don't think D is so bad, at least it feels nicer/newer than C.

My favorite is the sign at C security on the left wall. It says something like "WE TAKE ALL COMMENTS SERIOUSLY" or something like that. Always makes me laugh. Then again, getting stuck in line for the metal detector behind an overweight hill billy in a wheelchair or a guy in sleeveless camo shirt with a solid metal belt buckle, combat lace up hunting boots and $4.83 in loose change in his pocket always makes me laugh too.