Do you avoid high-delay airports?
 

Do you avoid high-delay airports like ORD? For example, by choosing connections elsewhere (even if a different airline choice is required), or by choosing an alternate local airport (e.g. MDW instead of ORD).

Or is being delayed frequently not much of a problem for your travel that you accept the risk of delay at high-delay airports?

As a UA flyer based in Dallas - I'm pretty much stuck with ORD. Even though it's terrible, I still refuse to fly AA. Darned Wright Amendment...

I don't fly UA anymore to avoid ORD. I won't connect internationally through LAX, and try not to terminate there. There are too many other LA area airports that are more pleasurable to fly in to and out of.

I try not to connect in the North during the winter, and the South during the summer.

I'm a gambler...I don't book super long connections and I don't avoid certain airports. Airlines operate on schedule 90%+ of the time so that small percent of flights that do get delayed are just part of the joys of air travel. Of course I tend to leave early enough to factor in a potential delay when there is a time definite meeting or such that I need to attend.

Avoid? I fly into them.

No, I don´t avoid them. When my routing is through an airport which much delays, then it is so.

Absolutely. I avoid LHR.

Same here- my husband and I have stuck with our "never connect through LHR again" vow. Our last 2 and our next planned European vacations will not involve LHR. I also try to avoid ORD in favor of DFW during the winter but that's not always an option. When you fly in and out of MCI you almost always have to transfer somewhere and sometimes you can't be picky.

ORD is my home airport, so I can't avoid it. It's too expensive and too far to MDW from where I live; besides UA isn't there.

I have never chosen another airline just to avoid a "high-delay" airport, and I doubt I will ever do so in the future.

I try to avoid LHR like the plague....but I'm stuck flying back and forth b/w ORD & BOS which both are AWFUL in the winter, and then ORD is usually a mess with T-Storms at least once a week in the summer. Moving out to SFO next year, which should (I hope?) be better?

-W

Hard to do when you live in Manhattan. :p I try to fly out on the first flight of the day. As for my return flight, I have my books and my poetry to protect me.

I don't live in Manhattan but all three NYC area airports are equidistant from where I am in Brooklyn - I opt for JFK when I can because it seems more resilient against weather and traffic. Other than that I don't really try to avoid airports except to try to avoid connecting north in winter and south (and ORD late afternoon/early evening) in summer. Also try to fly earlier in the day in the summer months overall.

Absolutely. I stopped flying US Air a few years ago to avoid PHL. I've only flown through ORD three times this year and was cancelled due to weather (or the threat thereof) each time. I've come to the conclusion that the problem isn't necessarily UA or AA, but ORD in general. I started flying NW simply to avoid ORD and PHL. DTW has issues every once in a while as well, but seems to recover a lot more quickly than ORD.

I avoid PHL like the plague. I also cannot stand DL at JFK.