A stressful airport experience isn't the ideal way to start a holiday. And it turns out some Aussies have it worse than others when it comes to their local airport experience. Travel experts at StressFreeCarRental.
com have released their 2024 Stressful Airport Index which analyses different anxiety-inducing factors to reveal the best and worst airports to travel from. Airports were ranked based on passenger numbers, driving distance from the city centre, number of destinations that can be flown to, the cost of parking and overall satisfaction score. Here are the top 10 most stressful in the country right now.
Sitting in 10th place means Canberra is one of the best airports to fly to and from in the country. It also had a satisfaction score of 85 on FlightRadar, the highest out of all of the airports. When it comes to passenger movement, Canberra is one of the least busiest with 2,711,821 annual passengers.
This could be due to planes flying from the airport only travelling to 12 destinations in total. In ninth place is Adelaide Airport. With 30 destinations to fly to, parking is cheap at only $96 per week.
The passenger count sits at 7,522,215, and the airport has a FlightRadar score of 83. Townsville Airport in Far North Queensland has the lowest passenger numbers in the top 10 (1,649,059) but will still charge travellers $160 for parking for a week. In seventh place is Hobart Airport in Tasmania.
It also has a low number in terms of passenger movement, at 2,5.