73. Jeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport – Saudi Arabia
Year of construction: 1981
Risk factors: Long way from Jeddah, dirty, time-consuming
Jeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport, named after the Saudi Arabian king who was inaugurated in the early 1980s, is one of the country’s largest airports. Its unique feature is a Hajj Terminal, which was built especially for Muslim pilgrims traveling to Mecca for the annual Hajj.
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The Active Times added this airport to its “Worst Airport” list, in part because of its distance from Jeddah. A flight attendant for Emirates said that the transport to the airport from Jeddah takes “two and a half hours” and usually requires buses. Other reasons Jeddah International gets bad reviews is because it takes a while to go through immigration, and passengers have also complained about the airport’s cleanliness.