How Many Different Airports have You Been To?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I was travelling this week and passed thru a couple of airports (layovers) that I had never been to before. I had some time to kill and was looking in one of the airline magazines at their route maps and went ahead and counted up all the different airporst that I can remember passing through over the years. I was surprised at how many different airports that I have been to, and wondered about others experiences.

How many different airports have you been to? (Best guesses are fine and for this thread, if you feel that you have been there, even just for a brief stop without getting off the plane, go ahead and count it)

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Mitchell Int’l (Milwaukee)
O’Hare
Somewhere in Maine
Somewhere in Florida
Somewhere in Mexico
Las Vegas
A layover on the way to Maine

So 7 maybe?

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Cleveland Hopkins International
BWI
Chicago-O’Hare
Chicago-Midway
Gallatin Field (Bozeman)
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Detroit
Salt Lake City
Denver
Seattle-Tacoma
JFK
Shannon International (Ireland)
Ontario (Los Angeles)
LAX
Whatever the airport nearest Davis, CA is
Whatever the airport nearest Brownsville, TX is
Whatever the other leg on the trip to Brownsville was

So, 17, unless I’m forgetting something. I might also have flown out of Philadelphia at some point, and I can’t remember if New Orleans was by plane or by bus, so possibly 19.

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  1. Regina SK
  2. Calgary AB
  3. Edmonton AB
  4. Vancouver BC
  5. Kamloops BC
  6. Whitehorse YT
  7. Winnipeg MB
  8. Toronto ON
  9. Saskatoon SK
  10. Prince Albert SK
  11. La Ronge, SK
  12. Ottawa ON
  13. Montreal QC
  14. Quebec City QC
  15. Halifax NS
  16. Yarmouth NS
  17. Saint John NB
  18. Frederickton NB
  19. St. John’s N&L
  20. Honolulu HI
  21. Sydney, NSW
  22. Adelaide, South Australia
  23. Alice Spinges, Northern Territory
  24. Heathrow, UK
  25. Some airport in Colorado
  26. Los Angeles CA
  27. San Francisco CA
  28. La Guardia New York NY
  29. Boston MA
  30. Cleveland OH
  31. JFK New York, NY
  32. Frankfurt Germany
  33. New Delhi India
  34. Glasgow UK
  35. Dublin Ireland
  36. Manchester, UK
  37. Charles de Gaulle France
  38. O’Hare, Chicago
  39. Nashville TN
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Ronaldsway (Isle of Man)
Liverpool John Lennon
Manchester
Malaga
Nice

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1 Saskatoon
2 Winnipeg
3 Calgary
4 Edmonton
5 Vancouver
6 Fort St. John (BC)
7 Fort Nelson (BC)
8 Toronto
9 Windsor
10 Montreal

11 Denver
12 San Jose
13 Dallas/Ft. Worth
14 Minneapolis
15 Detroit
16 Atlanta
17 Memphis
18 Meridian (MS)
19 Columbus (MS)

20 Seoul
21 Bangkok
22 Calcutta

Probably missing some connecting flights somewhere - somewhere between Calgary and Vancouver, somewhere between Ft. Nelson and Edmonton, and somewhere between Detroit and San Jose (though that might have been somewhere I have covered already). So, 24ish.

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Dulles
BWI
National (I live in the DC area, if you can’t tell)
San Francisco
Oakland
Dallas/Fort Worth
Houston
Midway
O’Hare
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Minneapolis/St. Paul
Colorado Springs
Heathrow
Vienna
Beijing
Shanghai Pudong

So, 17. I’m actually surprised it’s that many.

Edit: Forgot Xi’an, China. 18.

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Airports that I have flown to or from:

Toronto, Ontario (Pearson)
Brampton, Ontario (rented private plane)
Oshawa, Ontario
Windsor, Ontario
Vancouver, BC
Montreal, Quebec (Dorval)
Moncton, New Brunswick
Calgary, Alberta
San Francisco, California
Erlanger, Kentucky (Cincinatti NKI; for work)
London, England (Heathrow)
Helsinki, Finland

Airports that I have touched down at and continued in the same plane:

Winnipeg, Manitoba (on trip back from BC)
Peterborough, Ontario (same rented private plane, practice landing; my friend is a pilot)

Airports that I have touched down at and continued in a different plane:

Amsterdam, Netherlands (Schiphol)

Airports that I have been diverted to:

London, Ontario
Toronto, Ontario

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Sacramento
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Orange County
Seattle-Tacoma
Houston
Boston
New York (JFK)
London (Heathrow)
Frankfurt
Honolulu
Hilo

That makes 12

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Houston IAH
Houston Hobby
Dallas Love
Dallas DFW
LAX
Orlando
Las Vegas
Little Rock
San Francisco
Chicago
Kansas City, Mo
Denver
Atlanta
La Guardia
Newark
Miami
Louisville
Washington
Boston
Philadelphia
Seattle
New Orleans
Salt Lake City
Albuquerque
Phoenix
Honolulu
Hong Kong
Singapore
Jakarta
Balikpapan
Taiwan
Kuala Lumpur
Johore Baru
Tokyo
Kwajalein
Seoul
37 total

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[ol]
[li]Los Angles International[/li][li]San Francisco Intl[/li][li]Portland[/li][li]Southern Oregon[/li][li]Sea-Tac[/li][li]Vancouver BC[/li][li]Stockton,[/li][li]Modesto[/li][li]Merced[/li][li]Fresno (FAT)[/li][li]Bakersfield[/li][li]John Wayne OC[/li][li]San Diego[/li][li]Van Nuys[/li][li]San Fernando[/li][li]Phoenix[/li][li]Houston[/li][li]Dallas/Ft. Worth[/li][li]Colorado Springs[/li][li]Stapelton[/li][li]Denver International[/li][li]Honolulu[/li][li]Knoa[/li][li]Guam[/li][li]Chicago[/li][li]Toronto[/li][li]Boston[/li][li]Newark[/li][li]Washington DC[/li][li]Atlanta[/li][li]Orlando[/li][li]Small private field near New York[/li][li]London Heathrow[/li][li]Copenahgen[/li][li]Gothenburg[/li][li]Anderstam[/li][li]Brussels[/li][li]Frankfurt[/li][li]Puerto Rico[/li][li]Aruba[/li][li]Kansas City[/li][li]St. Louis[/li][/ol]
Plus probably a few I have forgotten

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At least 110:

New York (La Guardia)
New York (JFK)
Newark
Boston (Logan)
Dulles
Washington National
Miami
Orlando
Key West Naval Airfield (emergency landing)
Houston
Dallas-Ft. Worth
El Paso
Atlanta
Denver
Seattle
Gillette, Wyoming
Minneapolis
Little Rock
St. Louis
Phoenix
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Redding, CA
Honolulu
Hilo, HI
Maui
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Antigua
Kingston, Jamaica
Nassau, Bahamas
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Mexico City
Veracruz, Mexico
Belize City
Guatemala City
Flores, Guatemala
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
La Ceiba, Honduras
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
San Salvador, El Salvador
Managua, Nicaragua
Panama City, Tocumen
Panama City, Paitilla
Panama City, Albrook
David, Panama
Changuinola, Panama
Bocas del Toro, Panama
El Real, Panama
La Palma, Panama
Sambu, Panama
Garachine, Panama
El Porvenir, Panama
Carti, Panama
Rio Sidra, Panama
Coiba Island, Panama
Contadora Island, Panama
San Jose Island, Panama
San Miguel, Panama
Jaque, Panama
Puerto Pina, Panama
Bogota, Colombia
Caracas, Venezuela
Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela
Quito, Ecuador
Lago Agrio, Ecuador
Lima, Peru
Cuzco, Peru
Arequipa, Peru
Nuevo Mundo, Peru
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Buenos Aires
Trelew, Argentina
Bariloche, Argentina
Iguacu, Argentina
London (Gatwick)
Paris (CDG)
Frankfurt
New Delhi
Bangalore, India
Nagpur, India
Bhopal, India
Lagos, Nigeria
Enugu, Nigeria
Old Calabar, Nigeria
Yaounde, Cameroon
Bamako, Mali
Libreville, Gabon
Gamba, Gabon
Rabi, Gabon
Nairobi, Kenya
Entebbe, Uganda
Mambasa, Zaire
Antananarivo, Madagascar
Diego Suarez, Madagascar
Cape Town, South Africa
Bloemfontein, South Africa
Durban, South Africa
Papeete, Tahiti
Nandi, Fiji
Sydney, Australia
Alice Springs, Australia
Mt. Isa, Australia
Wellington, New Zealand
Auckland, New Zealand
Christchurch, New Zealand
Dunedin, New Zealand
Invercargill, New Zealand
Napier, New Zealand
Milford Sound, New Zealand

I’m sure I’m forgetting some brief stopovers. I’m also not counting a few small airstrips where I’ve landed by helicopter, since there was no real airport there.

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  1. In no partucular order:
    LaGuardia
    Kennedy
    Westchester
    LAX
    Long Beach
    Boston / Logan
    Atlanta
    Milwaukee
    Denver
    Heathrow
    BsAs
    Santiago
    BWI
    Dulles
    Orlando
    Miami
    Ft. Lauderdale
    Daytona
    Las Vegas/ McCarran
    St. Louis / Lambert

At the height of his consulting career my uncle travelled more than 200 days a year throughout the US and Canada. If you call him just to chat and mentioned that you’ll be travelling to [pick a city] he’ll ask what airline and make recommendations. “You’ll probably fly in to terminal D. Before you get on the tram you’ve gotta get an apple fritter from the donut place.”

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Alaska:
Anchorage Int’l
Anchorage (Lake Hood)
Juneau
Kotzebue
Nome
Barrow
Barter Island
Fairbanks
Elmendorf
Cape Romanzof
Cape Newenham
Indian Mountain
Tin City
Fort Yukon
Sitka
Ketchikan
Kodiak
Adak
Dutch Harbor
Cordova
McCarthy
King Salmon

Lower 49:
Seattle
Oak Harbor
Bellingham
Moscow (ID)
Portland (OR)
Grants Pass
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Oxnard
San Diego
Phoenix
San Antonio
Dallas
Houston
New Orleans
Minneapolis
Hibbing
NYC
Newark
Buffalo
Baltimore
Dulles
Reagan
Miami
Atlanta
Honolulu

Outside US
Da Nang, RVN
Tokyo
Okinawa
Manilla
Guam
London Gatwick
London Heathrow
Somewhere in Ireland
Oslo
Stockholm
Helsinki
Copenhagen
Paris
Brussels
Frankfurt
Rome
Lisbon
Madrid
Bern
Geneva
Prague
Vienna
Berlin
Belgrade
Sofia
Bucharest
Budapest
Moscow
Warsaw
Cairo
Tunis
Luxor
Bamako
Kampala
Johannesburg
Maun
Jeribe Island
Mombo Camp, Botswana
Victoria Falls
Kings Pool Camp
Kilimanjaro International Airport

I think I counted 89. I may have left some out. Some of those are more airstrips than airports.

Oops: San Juan, PR; St. Thomas, VI; Guatemala City; Bwindi.

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San Jose International (SJC)
Sacramento Inernational (SMF)
Seattle-Tacoma (SEA)
Portland (PDX)
Las Vegas (LAS)
Phoenix (PHX)
Salt Lake City (SLT)
Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW)
Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP)
Kansas City (MCI)
Atlanta (ATL)
Cincinnati (CVG)
New York (JFK)
Boston Logan (BOS)
Miami (MIA)
San Francisco (SFO)
Houston (HOU)
Los Angeles (LAX)
London Heathrow(LHR)
Rome (FCO)
Milan (MXP)

Plus a little private airport in Oakland, CA where I flew in a DC-3 over the Bay that I can’t remember the name of.

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Edit: to my list of ‘flown to or from’, I should add Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. :slight_smile:

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Logan (Boston)
Philadelphia (didn’t disembark)
Ft. Myers
Orlando

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Hells; I left out Misawa AFB, Yokota AFB, and Iwakuni MCAS in Japan, and Rota (Spain). That puts me at 97. I’m gaining on you, Colibri.

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My best guess is “a whole lot”… I’m too lazy to try to count. I’ve been to bunches of US ones, plus airports in Brazil, England, Spain, and Italy.

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Thank you for your contribution to this thread…