There often are hotels, but it gets booked fast when weather causes delays. When I got stranded in Dallas in 2019, the Ramada made it excessively clear they were booked. But there's also tons of hotels around airports, you just have to get through security, and they don't do hourly billing like you might want if you weren't sure your replacement flight is also delayed.

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Scoundreller 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> But there's also tons of hotels around airports, you just have to get through security

That works in USA where every international arrival has to be able to, and does, go landside.

In the more advanced world, you may only have authorization to stay in the terminal. Dunno what they do when shtf and people will be stuck for a few days.

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rafram 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The US system doesn’t seem less "advanced" to me. It cuts down on the number of people that connect through the US on non-US itineraries, but I don’t know that there are many US hubs agitating to become city-sized duty free malls like Dubai, Frankfurt, etc. And it makes our airport layouts much less complex.

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cyberax 4 hours ago | parent [-]

There are almost no routes that would want to use the US as a midpoint due to geography. It's pretty much only routes to Central America that make any sense, and there's just not a lot of them.

So the US never felt the need to build airports with dedicated international zones.

	▲	kevin_thibedeau 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The US migrated those airports to Canada.

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cyberax 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In Europe, you need a transit visa, it allows you to exit the terminal. The UK border agents also can grant discretionary 48-hour visas.

Most other large transit hubs have some sort of visa-on-arrival (Turkey, Dubai, South Korea, etc).

	▲	Scoundreller 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> In Europe, you need a transit visa, it allows you to exit the terminal Often you don’t need one to transit: e.g. I put some sketchy countries here as a transit passenger: https://www.netherlandsworldwide.nl/visa-the-netherlands/vis...

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_carbyau_ 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've almost always seen proper hotels right outside whichever airport I'm at.

But I've never seen a capsule hotel business within the airport bounds itself despite there being many stories of people wanting to sleep at the airport.

	▲	bombcar 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’ve seen hotels on airport property but I’ve yet to see one past security.