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The needed context seems to be that the person you are replying to is German. I don't love Schiphol either, but it beats any German airport (looking at Frankfurt in particular).

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What’s a nice large European airport? I feel like I’ve heard terrible things of all of them, like LHR and CDG.

Copenhagen is quite nice.

I would argue that's the only nice airport in Scandinavia even! Would say the worst layout on an airport i've ever seen is Stockholm Arlanda.

Copenhagen airport is my favourite too - note however that Arlanda T5 is being expanded at the moment and it seems like it will be a lot nicer when they're finished. The security stuff is already much better: no need to unpack laptops etc. from hand luggage when going through the new section. T2 is still quite sucky though!

OSL is fine too. And it's not like there's a huge number of large hubs in Scandinavia…

Except for the incredibly low ceilings in some places.

I like Heathrow when travelling to or from London. It's huge, but there's public transport to each terminal, a reasonable selection of restaurants and generally somewhere to sit. It's fairly quiet.

Changing between terminals at Heathrow is much less fun.

CDG I find confusing.

>Changing between terminals at Heathrow is much less fun.

I decided to stay at a Heathrow airport hotel a while back. Turned out I had to change terminals and I'm pretty sure it took me at least as long as getting a shuttle bus to one of the hotels would have taken.

You often have to walk quite a ways too.

Overall though Heathrow is pretty good among the large European airports.

I actually kinda enjoy the distance between terminals. After a long international flight, I deliberately take the tunnel, and skip the moving walkways. As long as I'm not rushing to make a connection, the walk is really nice.

Frankfurt is atrocious, but Munich is great.

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