Houston
I dunno, I'm pretty unimpressed with IAH controllers. In Newark they've got almost no airspace to work with, and I seldom get holds or speed restrictions unless something really nasty is going down.
Going into Houston, though, it can be CAVU and I'll get 250 knots from Memphis on in. It freakin' blows me away that they have miles and miles of airspace to work with, but they can't figure out how sequence aircraft in it?
I hate Houston, and Houston crews.
PWOP BABY!
I agree wholeheartedly.
Out of every class B airport I have flown into, Houston impresses me the least and in fact
depresses me.
What a colossal waste of resources.
Three runways a MILE apart from each other and they are telling people to slow to final approach speed because there is traffic five miles ahead of them on a visual approach!
The controllers are the rudest, most impatient, know-it-all bunch I can think of. At least the guys at JFK who get on youtube have some foreign pilots with bad English that are a legitimate annoyance.
The taxiway double-lettering thing is asanine, eats up radio time, and inevitably leads to massive amounts of partial readbacks because nobody wants to say six letters when they can say three. Even the controllers disregard the standard phraseology to shorten it. There is no reason the entire western sector of the airport needs to have taxiways that start with the letter W. The northern side of the airport does not need to have taxiways starting with the letter N.
But by far the worst thing about IAH airport is the contacting clearance at ramp spots. Never, ever, ever should a jet aircraft have to sit for even ten seconds at a ramp spot while someone else reads back their full route clearance. If there is a line for the runway it does not matter but when there is no line to the departure runway this clearance delivery-at-the-ramp-spot directly results in wasted fuel. Do it at the gate like every other airport in the USA.
Too bad Mr. Happy retired.