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Incheon includes a golf driving range, putting course, and even an ice skating rink
with artificial ice!
Following this – just barely – was Delhi’s
Indira Gandhi International Airport with
a score of 4.00. In a country of 1.2 billion
people, it handled 34 million passengers
in 2012,
and has won several awards over the past
few years for its rapid improvement. Plans
are in place to allow it to handle 100 million passengers per year by 2030, quite a
lofty goal. Airport Fact: If you’re tired, hit
the “Nap & Massage” Lounge, which has 14
mini-rooms, each with shower & bathroom.
In fifth spot is Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi
Airport, which handled 48 million passengers in 2012 after opening in 2001
(although plans for an airport in its location go back to the 1960’s). As one of the
most centrally-located airports in Asia, it’s
a major transit and cargo hub and, interestingly, has the tallest control tower of
any airport in the world. Airport Fact: The
airport’s name (pronounced soo-wannaboom) means Golden Land, but the area
it’s built on was once called Cobra Swamp.
Tokyo’s Narita International Airp