Worth the Wait

The U.S. ushered in the dawn of mass jet traveland the country has many dilapidated airports to show for it. The good news is that passengers tired of dank, aging facilities can now look forward to more comfortable journeys, with the fruits of a late 1990s terminal-building boom finally being realized. A slew of ultra-modern facilities has been unveiled in ten American cities, including Seattle, Miami, Detroit, New York and Los Angeles. The latest and swankiest is Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport's $1.4 billion Terminal D: a sprawling, two million-square-foot structure that brings lan to the world's third-busiest airport. Used almost exclusively...