To make your trip a little more relaxing, consider avoiding the following airports.
ADVERTISEMENT2024 has already been a difficult year for air travel, with the aviation sector plagued by strikes, technical failures and disruptive weather conditions.
Many passengers might therefore view the Easter journey with apprehension.
Although many of the factors that cause air travel to be taxed are beyond the passengers' control, you can choose which airport to depart from.
To make your trip a little more relaxing, consider avoiding the following airports, rated as the most stressful in the world.
What is the most stressful airport in the world?
A study published in December by visa advice website VisaGuide.World ranked the world's most stressful airports.
The survey questioned 1,642 air passengers from 53 different nationalities who made at least two international air trips in 2023.
They were asked which aspects of air travel stressed them the most. These were high passenger numbers, large airports often difficult to navigate due to their size, crowded airports, frequency of flights. Flight delays and distance from the city center.
With these concerns in mind, VisaGuide.World ranked airports using five factors: total number of passengers, airport size in square meters, passenger density per square meter, share of annual delays and distance from city center in kilometers.
London Gatwick is the most stressful airport in the world
London Gatwick, the second largest in the United Kingdom airporthas proven to be the most stressful airport in the world.
Although the number of passengers using Gatwick is lower than average compared to other airports, it has one of the highest passenger density scores.
Its annual delay percentage is the second highest among the top ten, and the distance from the city center – 43 kilometers – is the highest.
Half of the ten most stressful airports in the world are in Europe
Istanbul Airport in Türkiye comes in second place. It is the busiest in Europe with 64,289,107 passengers recorded in 2022, making it the seventh busiest airport in the world.
Travelers say they often have difficulty navigating the airport due to its enormous size – more than 76 million square meters.
GermanyMunich Airport took third place. The same year, it recorded less than half of Istanbul's attendance, or 31,642,738 passengers. But the size of Munich Airport is five times smaller than Istanbul Airport.
Denver International Airport in the United States is ranked fourth and the fifth position is occupied by another British hub, Heathrow Airport.
Heathrow is the second busiest in Europe airport with 61,614,508 passengers and it is even smaller than Munich airport.
Sixth place went to Los Angeles International Airport, followed by Rome-Fiumicino International Airport, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport and O'Hare.
