# How Many Different Airports have You Been To? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506 "2010-11-22T03:15:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/1 "2010-11-22T03:15:57Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/2 "2010-11-22T03:27:21Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/3 "2010-11-22T03:41:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/4 "2010-11-22T03:52:45Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/5 "2010-11-22T03:53:39Z")
Ronaldsway (Isle of Man) Liverpool John Lennon Manchester Malaga Nice ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/6 "2010-11-22T04:00:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/7 "2010-11-22T04:00:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/8 "2010-11-22T04:03:48Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/9 "2010-11-22T04:14:09Z")
Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles Orange County Seattle-Tacoma Houston Boston New York (JFK) London (Heathrow) Frankfurt Honolulu Hilo That makes 12 ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/10 "2010-11-22T04:15:27Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/11 "2010-11-22T04:17:56Z")
[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 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/12 "2010-11-22T04:20:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/13 "2010-11-22T04:21:47Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/14 "2010-11-22T04:26:11Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/15 "2010-11-22T04:28:02Z")
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. 22 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/16 "2010-11-22T04:28:21Z")
Edit: to my list of ‘flown to or from’, I should add Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/17 "2010-11-22T04:29:59Z")
Logan (Boston) Philadelphia (didn’t disembark) Ft. Myers Orlando ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/18 "2010-11-22T04:36:37Z")
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**. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/19 "2010-11-22T04:43:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/20 "2010-11-22T04:45:05Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > 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. Thank you for your contribution to this thread… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506.md?page=2)