Dulles Airport: only seventh-worst! Photo by BrianMKA

Dear New York: your airports suck.

Or so say the readers of Travel + Leisure, who recently ranked New York’s LaGuardia Airport as the worst in the country, followed closely by JFK Airport and Newark Airport in fourth and fifth place, respectively. Not that this is a surprise, says our own New York-bred associate editor: “Yes, they suck. We’ve known for years that they suck. LaGuardia is the worst thing in Queens. Worse than the Mets.” (Philadelphia and Los Angeles sat in second and third.) We didn’t escape criticism, though, with Dulles coming in as the nation’s seventh-most awful airport:

Flying into the nation’s capital? Well, Dulles is disparaged for its location (19th ranking) and baggage handling (15th). Flying out of Dulles? Expect long lines at check-in and security (15th) and staff who won’t exactly jump to attention (17th). The cleanliness and design of Dulles (15th) won’t lift your spirits either. Our survey suggests it’s worth considering routing your D.C. plans through Baltimore instead.

It looks like Dulles’ creative drug traffickers get no credit, nor does the fact that it finally did away with most of the people movers. Hey, it’ll soon have a Metro station, right? Oh, right.

Baltimore didn’t just receive passing praise, though—it came in sixth on the list of the country’s best airports.

Fly through Baltimore, and you stand one of the best chances that your flight will take off and not be canceled, say T+L readers. And with a No. 4 ranking for check-in and security lines, there’s a very good chance that you’ll speed through TSA lines as well. And if there’s a problem, the seventh-ranked staff communication means that your complaint should be heard and dealt with appropriately.

The best airports? Minneapolis, Charlotte and Detroit. Not mentioned at all? Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. We’re not totally surprised—while the airport is fantastically located (D.C. even owns a small portion!), heaven forbid you ever have to fly out of Terminal A, where the architecture and service are still stuck in 1952.

The single biggest mystery? Miami was tenth on the best airports list. Miami? Really? Terribly designed, an awful place to go through immigration and, well, a gateway to Miami. What else could be so awful?