Poor Economics: 8 of the 10 World’s Worst Airports are European

European Union leftists frequently claim not to be socialist, but rather to be socialist-capitalist hybrids. Unfortunately for them, the quality of their infrastructure seems to be socialist-only, as a study revealed that 8 of the 10’s worst airports in the world are in Europe.

Economic issues in France have frustrated yellow-jacket protesters. (Reuters)

The results are based on AirHelp surveying over 40,000 consumers on 132 airports. The European airports to win this rather unfortunate honor are:

  1. Lisbon Portela Airport in Portugal
  2. Eindhoven Airport in the Netherlands
  3. Bucharest International Airport in Romania
  4. Malta International Airport in Malta
  5. Paris Orly Airport in France
  6. Manchester Airport in Britain
  7. London Gadwick in Britain
  8. Porto Airport in Portugal

The only two non-European airports to make the bottom ten are the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport in Canada, which follows the European economic model, and the Kuwait International Airport in Kuwait.

Cracking runways are a safety hazard in Canada’s Toronto Airport.

Even airports from traditionally more impoverished nations scored better, such as the Afono Pena International in Brazil as well as the Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International in India.

The study’s results “have been unsurprising for a long time,” said Louis Jansk-Gaulle, an airport infrastructure safety inspector from Paris, “the government can barely afford overtime pay and I barely have the energy to work overtime”.

“We’re so understaffed and underfunded that the fear of accidents brings me much stress”, he admitted.

He also revealed to be in support of the yellow jacket protests and stated that, “Macron and his cronies have been taxing us commoners to death, but where is the money disappearing to?”

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