If the person you are picking up is delayed turn around in the "return to terminal" lane and wait in the bend off to the right while listening to good music or playing phone games.
If you self check in you may get very little guidance on luggage drop off. Give yourself plenty of time and demand clear guidance so you don't end up on a wild goose chase, luggage in tow.
The D terminal in Miami Airport is massive, now that the construction is finished. It has 60 gates, so to get to your destination faster, use the new Miami Skytrain.
Metrorail to airport from downtown was pretty good: convenient (big wheeled bag was fine, with escalators, no stairs) and cheap ($2!) -- but not fast. Just under an hour, from office door to terminal.
Mew bag wrapping service is a rip off at $30! If you use them don't let them wrap the bags too tight, It jams the handles and wheels and then you will be in for a mission to get them to sort it out.
The good - leaving for international flights is pretty easy. The bad - long walk with a poorly lasted out route to customs when you arrive back in the US. 😝
The security process here is confusing. there are no signs to let you know. Checkpoint three is for regular checkpoint two for priority checkpoint one is for TSA precheck.
Not the best AirPort I’ve ever been. Foodcourt right after security is just about it. A few tax-free shops, so not many things to kill the time. Staff at the foodcourt and shops seemed bored.
Make sure to get here 2 hrs a head of time. Everyone here is very slow and not accommodating. The security line is always long. I've never had a good experience here.
Please DONT travel with AA: Most ilogical terminal, domestic check-in on oposite side of actual check point for domestic gates. In almost 5 yrs in the US, AA has never departed on time.
I was in the military for 10 years and have been to a LOT of airports and this has got to be the dirtiest most outdated airport I've ever been to. I bet the Havana airport is in better condition.