Airport meltdowns?....not here

As anyone who's traveled recently through Nicaragua's main international airport will attest, it is nothing like this:

Daily Telegraph (LondoN): Airport queues longer than flights

or this:

Daily Telegraph (London): Is it worth going abroad this summer?

or this:

Washington Post: Flight delays in June among worst on record

We quote: "The analogy is the bridge in Minnesota," Abbey said. "When you don't deal with infrastructure, it collapses." Many major hub airports, for example, are constrained by limited gates and runways available to handle the growing traffic.

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Nicaragua's airport is modern, sleek, up to date, clean, well organized, uncongested and structurally simple (not a maze, like Heathrow). The walk from the check-in counter to your gate is short, direct and simple. Flights are typically on time. Get to the check-in counter a couple hours ahead of time, and you'll likely be sitting at your gate within 40 minutes -- maybe within a half-hour -- with little or no grief. It's more like a bus or train station in terms of its predictability and simplicity, and a pleasant change from what's going on at so many "First World" airports these days.

The larger context is that while infrastructure in many "First World" countries is degrading from a high level of quality, Nicaragua's is going in the other direction, including a current, widespread program of road improvement that is already generating serious investment gains, helping to bolster tourism and opening new beautiful venues to new development.

 

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