Airports Where Passengers Are King

Tired of feeling like cattle? The world's top airports make flying feel, once again, like a luxury

By Jennifer Fishbein

Fed up with brutish immigration officers and surly gate personnel? Or wish you could spend some of those hours at the airport not waiting in line or in search of a restroom? Perhaps you're flying to the wrong places. In the third annual survey of airport service quality by Geneva-based Airports Council International, airports in the Asia-Pacific region were found to be the most passenger-friendly. The agency polled 200,000 travelers at 90 airports on 34 criteria such as cleanliness, courtesy, and restroom availability.

The results: Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Nagoya all took the top spots. To read about them, as well as the top-ranked airports by region, click on.