So I'm in Boston this week for the holidays with family. My brother was working on a sailboat in the Caribbean for the past couple weeks and flew back last Thursday for XMas St. Maarten - Miami - Boston. Unsurprisingly he didn't have the best things to say about clearing customs, taking the tram etc in MIA. But he did come up with the best description of MIA I've ever heard. Slightly paraphrased: You've got pasty white Brits and Americans turned pink from Caribbean sun, Rastafari, well-heeled Argentines, and farmers from rural corners of the world on a plane for the first time, excess baggage strewn about, all sorts of colorful language, lines up the wazoo, and little kids of all shapes and sizes running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Its straight out of Men in Black, its like an intergalactic transfer station

Love it. I'm gonna remember that next time I'm stuck in line at customs or security in MIA. Something to put a smile on my face during an otherwise less than fun experience!

Interesting description, but this seriously needs a better thread title.

I love that description for MIA. ^ Will definitely use it in the future.

That's why I ALWAYS fly into FLL

+ infinity

Hear, hear!!

Sounds exactly why I like flying in to Mia it is never boring.

I'm about 50/50 on that. Half the time I love the chaos of MIA (and the empanadas at La Carreta). The other half of the time I want Swiss precision. OK, I always love La Carreta.

Yes, but only La Carreta on Caille Ocho. I never tire of MIA and frankly I have never had the slightest problems there, although I hear of them on FT.

Yeah, all the times where I flew out from FLL instead of going to MIA/PBI.