Worst airport is LaGuardia because of the short runways and that when there's even a threat of bad weather the delays pile up quickly. Close runner up is Atlanta because whenever I fly through there I'm two concourses away from my gate, the tram is usually not running and the moving sidewalks are not moving.
Horrible La Guardia experience: Final approach, night. Moments from landing the throttle was punched. The plane banked away at a sickening angle - rolled sideways - as the engines spooled up - I was sure we were falling out of the sky - and outside the window, looking almost straight down, I could see that we had almost landed on top of a plane taking off from the same runway. The passengers were only told that we had missed the approach and had to go around. But I saw what had happened.
We landed safely on the second go 'round - wouldn't be telling this story otherwise.
You know how the pilots sometimes stand by the cockpit as you deplane, and say "Buh bye." The pilots of this flight did that, but they were drenched in sweat and clearly agitated.
I was drenched in sweat and agitated too. Saw what happened. Thought I was watching my own death.
Shook the captain's hand on my way off and whispered "We almost bought it back there, didn't we?" "Yeah. Sssh." "You did some good flying. I saw. Thank you." "Buh bye." He obviously didn't wanna talk about it.