{"id":287269,"date":"2026-09-16T12:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287269\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:12:08","slug":"philadelphia-international-again-ranks-last-in-airport-satisfaction-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287269\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia International again ranks last in airport satisfaction study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdpower.com\/business\/north-america-airport-satisfaction-benchmark-study\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">JD Power airport rankings<\/a> are out, and for the sixth consecutive year, Philadelphia International Airport is at the bottom of the list.<\/p>\n<p>Just as it did in the previous five years, PHL ranked last among similarly sized airports in JD Power\u2019s new satisfaction survey. <\/p>\n<p>The airport did score better than last year, though, after modernizing restrooms, adding device chargers to seating areas, and increasing the variety of airport restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as things that improved, they did go up in most categories,\u201d said JD Power\u2019s Michael Taylor. \u201cBut the biggest thing for Philadelphia is they really need some new buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Philly International is 86 years old, and its holding areas are too small for today\u2019s larger aircraft, Taylor noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t make a silk purse out of a sow\u2019s ear, and you can\u2019t make a fabulous, modern airport out of something that\u2019s 86 years old.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The latest JD Power airport rankings are out, and for the sixth consecutive year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,1013,70],"class_list":["post-287269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-international-airport","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}