i actually hate starbucks. will go to significant lengths to avoid getting anything there. but what they actually provide ain't half bad, as it were. but i do believe coffee purveyors in the airports before were decent enough. (Are there still non-starbucks coffee joints in US airports ?) I hope so. There's a great coffee company located in the Minneapolis airport called Caribou Coffee. They have stores throughout MN and also in Chicago, Ohio, MI and GA (and maybe a few other cities as well). I think they're the only semi-national coffee company that's been able to compete against Starbucks in some markets. It's a great product.