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.
> 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.
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.
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.
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.
In case there's any confusion: what I meant is that the airport in dallas is before security, so you have to through the scans again when need to get to the gate and leave.
