Why Do American Airports Lag Every Other Region in the World?


Skift Take

The answer is a mix of history and geography.
U.S. airports’ low rank in the world is so uncontroversial that Vice President Joseph Biden even publicly commented that this is an area where America’s biggest rival shines. “If I blindfolded Americans and took them into some of the airports or ports in China and then took them to one in any one of your cities in the middle of the night just so they could see it and then said: ‘which one is in America and which one is in China?’ Most Americans would say: ‘That great one is in America.’ It’s not,” Vice President Biden said at the U.S. Conference of Mayors. U.S.