# How many airports have you been to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 16, 2002, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035 "2002-04-16T23:17:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/21 "2002-04-17T02:36:49Z")
hmm… ASIA: Bombay, India Pune, India Delhi, India Madras, India Singapore Bahrain Abu Dabhi (sp?) EUROPE: London - Heathrow Newcastle Frankfurt Paris - CDG Amsterdam Vienna Wroclaw, Poland NORTH AMERICA: Raleigh Durham, NC Charlotte, NC Atlanta, GA Jacksonville, FL Miami, FL Orlando, FL Washington - Dulles Washington - National Boston, MA New York - La Guardia New York - JFK Ithaca, NY Chicago - O’Hare Dallas Ft. Worth Austin, TX San Francisco Los Angeles Honolulu, HI Hilo, HI Seattle, WA Toronto Vancouver I think that’s all of them. 36 total. Not bad for 19 years, methinks. ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/22 "2002-04-17T02:41:13Z")
hmm… thought of a few more: Stuart/New Bern (I think that’s what it’s called… upstate new york) Cincinatti (sp?) Las Vegas ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/23 "2002-04-17T03:50:46Z")
Boston MA Providence RI Manchester NH Nashua NH West Lebanon, NH Portland, ME JFK, NY Laguardi, NY Newark, NJ Islip, NY Washington National, DC Washington Dulles, DC Charelston, SC Miami, FL Ft Lauderdale, FL West Palm Beach, FL Orlando, FL Nashville, TE Detroit, MI Columbus, OH Chicago, IL New Orleans, LA Atlanta, GA Denver, CO Salt Lake City, UT Reno, NV LAX, CA San Jose, CA San Francisco, CA Seatac, WA Pittsburg, PA Philidephia, PA St Louis, MO Dallas, TX Duluth, MN Vancouver, BC Heathrow, UK Frankfurt, Germany Aukland, NZ Wellington, NZ Nelson, NZ Christchurch, NZ Sydney, Australia Melbourne, Australia Hobart, Australia Singapore Taipai, Taiwan Hong Kong Bangkok, Thailand Chang Mai, Thailand Sukhotai, Thailand Koh Samui, Thailand Siem Riep, Cambodia Kathmandu, Nepal 54, I’m sure I missed some in the US. I’m about to add Paris next week. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/24 "2002-04-17T04:12:41Z")
North America Seattle-Tacoma Portland San Francisco LAX John Wayne (Orange County?) Ontario? Sacramento Las Vegas Salt Lake City Chicago Midway O’Hare (Chicago) Dallas Fort Worth New Orleans KC Alexandria, LA Logan (Boston) JFK (NYC) LaGuardia Newark Westchester Cleveland Indianapolis Louisville Dayton Columbus Cincinnati Blue Ash (Cincinnati) Lunken (Cincinnati) Hartsfield (Atlanta) BWI Washington National Washington Dulles Philadelphia Miami Tampa St. Petersburg/Clearwater Orlando Charlotte Augusta Toronto Vancouver Pittsburgh St. Louis Minneapolis Portland, ME Manchester, NH San Jose, CA Denver Detroit Mexico City Asia Tokyo - Narita Taipei Singapore Don Muang (Bangkok) Phuket Int’l (Thailand) Chiang Mai (Thailand) Europe, Middle East, Africa Istanbul Cairo Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) Dammam (Saudi Arabia) Warsaw Zurich Geneva Frankfurt Duesseldorf Madrid Barcelona London - Gatwick London - Heathrow Newcastle Southampton Paris - Charles de Gaulle Brussels Amsterdam - Schipol Nice, France South America Lima, Peru Caracas, Venezuela Buenos Aires, Argentina I think that’s it. Could be a few more. Unless I miscounted, that’s 78. ---
**Author:** ![Lockz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/25 "2002-04-17T04:15:02Z")
Ok, not as many as most on this list but I’ll try. Macdonald-Cartier (Ottawa) Pearson (Toronto) Calgary Vancouver Victoria Montreal Heathrow (London) de Gaulle (Paris) Schipol (Amsterdam) Athens Total: 10 Ok, that’s not many at all. ---
**Author:** ![Hemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Hemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hemlock)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/26 "2002-04-17T04:19:16Z")
N Am: JFK, Newark, Seattle, Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore-Was, Dulles, National, someplace in Upstate NY, Montreal, Nassau, Bermuda Eur: Lon-H, Lon-G, Manchester, Bristol, some tiny airstrip in England, Paris CDG, Paris (other), Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt Afr: Johannesburg, Casablanca, Agadir, Tunis M-E: Dubai, Bahrain Asia: Bombay, Colombo, Singapore, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta (old and new airports), Hong Kong (Kai Tak and CLK), Taipei, Seoul, Pusan (where Air China 767 crashed yesterday), Tokyo, Sapporo, Bangkok, Shanghai Oz: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane Must have missed a couple. Still, barely 50 - fewer than I would have guessed. Then again, some of these I’ve passed through on numerous, numerous occasions. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/27 "2002-04-17T05:16:28Z")
I will leave it to those commercial airports I have flown into or through. Grouped in some way to shorten scrolling for you guys. \*\*North America \*\* Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville Atlanta, Savannah, Columbus, GA Charleston, Columbia, Myrtle Beach, SC RDU, New Bern, Charlotte, Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point, NC Dulles, National, BWI, Norfolk, Richmond Philly, Pittsburgh, Buffalo Newark, JFK, La Guardia Boston, Providence(RI), Portland (ME) O’Hare, Midway, Madison, WI, Minneapolis/St Paul Dallas, El Paso, Houston Honolulu Portland, Seattle Calgary, Montreal LAX, Orange County, San Diego Phoenix, Las Vegas Denver (Stapleton and DIA) Knoxville, Cincinnati, Memphis, Nashville, Little Rock Monroe, New Orleans, Baton Rouge (LA) Kansas City, Salt Lake City 58, plus a few I’ll remember later on **Overseas** Guatemala City, San Pedro Sula (Honduras), San Jose and Limon (Costa Rica), Panama City Narita (Japan), Hong Kong (old one), Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Jakarta Heathrow, Gatwick, Dublin, Manchester Brussels, Helsinki, Charles De Gualle, Madrid, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Athens, Rome, Larnaca (Cyprus) Abu Dhabi (UAE), Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dhahran (Saudi Arabia) 31, as far as I recall. **Miltary Airfields (Fixed Wing)** Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Pt, NC MCAS Beaufort, SC MCAS, Yuma, AZ Ft. Bliss, TX Naval Air Station Jacksonville, FL Fairchild Air Force Base, WA Andrews AFB, VA Minot AFB, ND (Hi, **Tripler!** ) Nellis AFB, NV McGuire AFB, NJ Some US Air Force Base in England in the middle of the flippin’ night. 11 here. I don’t plan to fly much in my next job. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/28 "2002-04-17T05:25:09Z")
I will leave it to those commercial airports I have flown into or through. Grouped in some way to shorten scrolling for you guys. \*\*North America \*\* Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville Atlanta, Savannah, Columbus, GA Charleston, Columbia, Myrtle Beach, SC RDU, New Bern, Charlotte, Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point, NC Dulles, National, BWI, Norfolk, Richmond Philly, Pittsburgh, Buffalo Newark, JFK, La Guardia Boston, Providence (RI), Portland (ME) O’Hare, Midway, Madison, WI, Minneapolis/St Paul Dallas, El Paso, Houston Honolulu Portland, Seattle Calgary, Montreal LAX, Orange County, San Diego Phoenix, Las Vegas Denver (Stapleton and DIA) Knoxville, Cincinnati, Memphis, Nashville, Little Rock Monroe, New Orleans, Baton Rouge (LA) Kansas City, Salt Lake City 58, plus a few I’ll remember later on **Overseas** Guatemala City, San Pedro Sula (Honduras), San Jose and Limon (Costa Rica), Panama City Narita (Japan), Hong Kong (old one), Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Jakarta Heathrow, Gatwick, Dublin, Manchester Brussels, Helsinki, Charles De Gualle, Madrid, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Athens, Rome, Larnaca (Cyprus) Abu Dhabi (UAE), Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dhahran (Saudi Arabia) 31, as far as I recall. **Military Airfields (Fixed Wing)** Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Pt, NC MCAS Beaufort, SC MCAS Yuma, AZ Ft. Bliss, TX Naval Air Station Jacksonville, FL Fairchild Air Force Base, WA Andrews AFB, VA Minot AFB, ND (Hi, **Tripler!** ) Nellis AFB, NV McGuire AFB, NJ Some US Air Force Base in England in the middle of the flippin’ night. 11 here. I don’t plan to fly much in my next job. ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/29 "2002-04-17T06:25:27Z")
whoa, you all have been all over As Pilot St Louis Regional Airport (crappy airport in Bethalto,IL) Centrailia IL Some air port near Eastern Illinois University mattoon maybe? Springfield IL Mt Vernon IL As Passenger Lambert Field (st louis) Heart Field (Atlanta) Orlando Midway (chicago) Hobbie (houston) San Antonio Gulfport MS Dallas-Ft Worth Kansas City Eppley (omaha) Air Force Bases Lackland AFB Kelly AFB Keesler AFB Tyndall AFB Scott AFB Offutt AFB Whiteman AFB I’m sure I’m missing a couple somewhere. dead0man ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/30 "2002-04-17T06:44:19Z")
This thread could take the record for longest first page! In the USA Honolulu Hilo Kona Molokai Maui Kauai Dillingham Airfield (by Haleiwa) LAX SF Portland Seattle Denver (the old one) Phoxenix Tucson **International** Kansas City Chicago outside Sydney, Australia Dublin London Heathrow Eh, not too many, Now my mother! Holy cow! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/31 "2002-04-17T06:53:37Z")
LAX, Burbank, Atlanta, Dayton, Miami, Sacramento, Honolulu, Denver, San Antonio. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![kuroashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9a140/32.png) [@kuroashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kuroashi)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/32 "2002-04-17T07:17:34Z")
What an odd thread. I never woulda thought of it. Sapporo-Chitose, Japan Tokyo-Haneda Tokyo-Narita Osaka-Kansai Seoul-Kimpo Hong Kong (old one) Jakarta Denpasar, Bali Sydney, OZ Melbourne, OZ Christchurch, NZ (Think I’ll retire there) Honolulu, HI LA - Orlando, CA San Diego, CA (almost as spooky as the old HK one) San Francisco, CA Sacramento, CA LAX, Mars Reno, NV SLC Denver, CO Vancouver Portland, OR Sea-Tac Spokane, WAMissoula, MT Bozeman, MT Billings, MT Kalispell, MT MPLS-St.Paul, MN Chicago-O’Hare Cincinnati, OH Charlotte, NC Washington-Dulles Baltimore, MA (that is the right abbreviation for … aw you guys know where Baltimore is anyway)Newark, NJPortland. ME as well, very nice facility So 36. Thought I had traveled more than that. Guess most travel has been on motorcycle recently. Let’s do another thread to see how many different MODES OF TRANSPORTATION people have used. ---
**Author:** ![reoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@reoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reoch)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/33 "2002-04-17T07:37:57Z")
Let’s see… Saipan Guam Tinian Tokyo Osaka Korea Okinawa Nagoya Honolulu Hilo Toyama Soon be visiting… Houston Orlando It’s going to be my first Mainland US experience…WOO HOO!! Reoch ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/34 "2002-04-17T07:40:25Z")
La Guardia, Newark, JFK Houston St. Thomas LA Tampa Somewhere in Mexico, in or near Cozumel Las Vegas ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/35 "2002-04-17T11:08:53Z")
Sweden: Luleå Umeå Stockholm - Arlanda Stockholm - Bromma Linköping - Malmslätt airforce base Gothenburg - Landvetter Växjö Malmö - Sturup Europe: Copenhagen Berlin - Tegel Frankfurt aM Munich London - Heathrow London - Gatwick London - Stansted Luton Edinburgh Glasgow Schiphol Palma de Mallorca Lisbon Rest of the world: Monastir Larnaca JFK O’Hare Columbus OH ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/36 "2002-04-17T11:31:37Z")
Are you trying to kill the board? As far as I can remember: Washington DC (Reagan?) Houston TX Newark NJ Atlanta GA Miami FL Chattanooga TN Chicago O’Hare Portland OR Los Angeles CA JFK San Juan PR London Heathrow London Gatwick London Stansted London Luton Southampton, UK RAF Scampton, UK Birmingham, UK East Midlands, UK Leningrad, RUS Moscow, RUS Heraklion, Crete Dublin, Ireland Cork, Ireland Belfast, NI Roseau, Dominica Bridgetown, Barbados Larnaca, Cyprus Narita Tokyo, Japan Fukuoka, Japan Kagoshima, Japan Hong Kong - Kai Tak (now closed) Hong Kong - Chep Lak Kok Manila, Philippines Changi, Singapore Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Bangkok, Thailand Chiang Mai, Thailand Kathmandu Kunming, PRC Sanya, PRC Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam Dubai, UAE Las Vegas NV San Francisco CA De Gaulle, Paris Schipol, Amsterdam Madrid, Spain Alicante, Spain And several other small airfields the names of which I don’t know. …and the only place where they actually made me take off my shoes after the steel toecaps set off the metal detector was Dubai. Bless 'em for having proper security. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/37 "2002-04-17T11:58:03Z")
Hey, that’s an interesting one. Let’s see! I’m going to sum them up in no particular order, so bear with me. Amsterdam Schiphol Izmir, Turkey Singapore London Heathrow London City London Stansted London Luton Manchester Dublin, Ireland Paris Charles de Gaulle Milan Malpensa Frankfurt, Germany Edinburgh, Scotland Cancun, Mexico Atlanta, USA Los Angeles International Johannesburg, South Africa Cape Town, South Africa That’s just 18. Well, in 6 weeks, I can add Newark NJ to the list, because I’m making a stopover there. And I have been a rather frequent flyer for about 3 years now - it’s just that most trips are to a small number of destinations. Best Airport I’ve been to: it’s a tie between Singapore and Amsterdam Worst Airport I’ve been to: definitely Paris CDG. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/38 "2002-04-17T12:11:53Z")
lax burbank denver phoenix indianopilous dallas st louis As a ward of the court in a 5 year custody case living wiht my grandparents we were flown between indy and la every 6 weeks or so So i knew most of the northwest/westren airports pretty well Did they ever finish remodeling or rebuilding denver ? seems every time i was there they had construction work happening ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/39 "2002-04-17T12:37:13Z")
(In approximate order of frequency): Atlanta Hartsfield (ATL) Dallas Fort-Worth (DFW) Memphis (MEM) Boston Logan (BOS) San Francisco (SFO) Fayetteville, AR Drake Field (FYV) Northwest Arkansas Regional (XNA) St. Louis Lambert (STL) Salt Lake City (SLC) Fort Lauderdale (FLL) Orlando (MCO) Raleigh-Durham (RDU) Miami (MIA) Little Rock (LIT) New Orleans (MSY) West Palm Beach (PBI) Lincoln, NE (LNK) San Jose (SJC) Newark (EWR) New York LaGuardia (LGA) Washington Dulles (IAD) Washington National (DCA) Cleveland (CLE) Nashville (BNA) Chicago Midway (MDW) Chicago O’Hare (ORD) Austin (AUS) Bloomington-Normal, IL (BMI) Denver (DEN) (the old one) Detroit Metro (DTW) Huntsville, AL (HSV) Birmingham, AL (BHM) Tri-Cities (Pasco-Kennewick-Richland, WA) (PSC) Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX) Seattle-Tacoma (SEA) Rochester, NY (ROC) Sacramento, CA (SMF) Tampa (TPA) Tulsa (TUL) That’s thirty-nine; seems about the average for this group so far. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035/40 "2002-04-17T12:48:45Z")
And here I thought I was well-traveled – or perhaps I’m just a thorough traveler on familiar routes. For my adult life, I’m averaging just over 17 flight legs per year. However, that’s in … eighteen airports, and six of those are in Scandinavia. But Minneapolis/St Paul, Chicago O’Hare, and Boston Logan – I know those airports all too well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to/104035.md?page=3)