I share that peeve; too many airports (think SFO terminal 3) have great offerings airside, and either no or cruddy options landside.

I thought of a worse one.

The people who go through security and hover at the very top of the X-Ray machine, where the carry-on bags first come out. Then they remain there and take their sweet time removing their items from the bin, putting their shoes back on, re-belting their trousers, and re-packing their liquids before ambling off, leaving their empty bins on the belt and fellow passengers stacked up behind them.

Move to the end of the belt. Organize your crap. And put your bins back in the stack.

Or better yet, at most (although not all) airports they have benches. Once your stuff is out, grab your bins and your carry-ons, move over the benches and get dressed again there.

How about the reverse? At least one of the terminals at FLL used to have several food option outside security but the only food option inside security was a place that sold pre packaged deli sandwiches (like the type you buy at convenience stores).


To add any terminal that has daily scheduled flight departures after all the stores and restaurants close.

The old ORK terminal used to have a red line on the ground and a notice saying "please wait behind the line until YOUR bag appears", and it was generally abided by appropriately.
JFK T4 was like this at the A gates last time I was there.

You had me until this part. That's over the line.

No argument, just have encountered the other more. Although I'll say that the terminal from which the United flights depart at DAL is a wasteland airside.

Which of course leads me to two peeves: airports that don't have such benches or chairs handy, forcing you to do a sort-of grasping-your-pants perp walk down to the nearest gate, and airports where the local folks have brilliantly put a large gap between the tables where you're sliding your stuff and bins along and the scanner belt.

^^^ to both.

Totally agree with toilets. Not only not enough in the RIGHT places, but when you are towing a bag, computer case or whatever, those stalls are not large enough. I only bring a small under seat carry on and trying to get into a stall with the bag is a challenge.
If only ALL the stall doors opened out instead of in there would be no problem.

People who emerge from a jetway, escalator, etc. and just stop dead in wonderment, ignoring the hundreds in motion directly behind them.

She shrieked "Ladies first" then assaulted someone? Classy. :rolleyes:
I think that maybe I sat next to her in second grade.

you beat me to it. I have seen people that will exit the plane and walk part way up the jetway and just stop like they are waiting for someone else on the plane. It seems common sense to me to kindly step to the side of the jetway to wait for someone else. I have seen people that get up the jetway and then stop as soon as they reach the door at the gate area. Grrrrr.

There are the gate lice, then there are what I call the jet way fleas.

When you need to wait for a plane-side checked luggage on the jetway, the FA on the plane will usually say "Please stay to one side of the jet way if you are waiting on you plane-side checked bags", 90+% of the times you will have people lining up on BOTH sides of the jet way, and often enough you will have people congregating AT the jet way door where it goes down to the ramp.

The biggest peeve for me are the wizards who design the layout of the tables at the security checks. Has even one of these morons ever tried to go through with the normal load of stuff?

A few hints:

1. If you have floor space, USE IT!

2. Two or more tables ahead of the X-ray machine are good. One table is not good - if you actually look at what goes on, you'll realize that it causes backups and slows things down.

3. Tables in straight lines are good. Tables with L-shaped layout are not so good.

4. Tables placed against each other are good. Tables with gaps between them are not so good.

5. Tables of the same height are good. Tables of different heights are not so good.

6. Piles of bins strategically placed can be used to slow things down.

7. Piles of bins on the tables use up table space that could be used by passengers to get their stuff ready.

8. Carts for bins that have no bins on them slow things down even more, especially when theyre placed in the line of traffic flow.

Recognizing that there is limited intellectual capacity in play here, I'll stop there for now. When you get that sorted out, I'll have a few more hints.

Old SVO2... that whole place was an abomination. The only good thing about it was the workers' cafeteria serving about $2 beers (vs $10 beers down in the pax areas).