No one wants to spend the night on the airport floor. Here’s how to make the best of it if you have to.
That didn’t save them when, around 1 a.m., they were asked to leave.
— would have us waiting two overnight, eight-hour layovers in two different cities. A hotel or sleeping pod would add too much to our costs, and hourly sleeping pod rentals weren’t available in the dead of night.We made the same decision any masochistic, budget-weary traveler would make: We would sleep first at the Barcelona-El Prat Airport, and then in Rome’s Fiumicino Airport. Eight hours each, midnight to 8 a.m. The sleeping would take place in shifts.
Which sections of the airport are available to passengers and when varies by airport — and even by terminal. And while busier airports in major metropolises may let travelers wait overnight in secure zones, the actual security checkpoints can still be closed. At New York’s JFK Airport, for example, certain terminals will be open 24/7, but the same isn’t true for all security checkpoints. That could mean that you’re unable to get into your gate more than three hours before your flight.
Rome’s Fiumicino airport, on the other hand “is always opened and there are no constraints for passengers who want to sleep at the airport,” representative Fabiana Carboni said. “We do not have a proper sleeping areas or sleeping chairs, but passengers can sleep freely in the seating located throughout the airport.
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