# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/61 "2010-11-22T15:36:59Z")
Coming up with a round 50, but might be forgetting some: Dallas - Love Dallas - DFW Denver - Stapleton Denver - DIA Seattle Ketchikan, AK Anchorage, AK Portland, OR San Francisco LAX San Diego Phoenix Albuquerque Clovis, NM Alamosa, CO Pueblo, CO Colorado Springs, CO Lubbock, TX Houston – Hobby Oklahoma City Tulsa Kansas City St. Louis Chicago – Midway Chicago – O’Hare Minneapolis Detroit Cleveland Cincinnati Columbus Nashville Memphis Atlanta Orlando Miami Columbia, SC Raleigh Washington – National Washington – Dulles New York – La Guardia New York – JFK Allentown Philadelphia Pittsburgh Las Vegas Salt Lake City Heathrow Dublin Shannon Vancouver ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/62 "2010-11-22T15:44:58Z")
Ireland… :smack: Dublin. I’m reasonably sure we didn’t swim all the way there from Spain, mostly because I swim like a brick. ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/63 "2010-11-22T16:01:15Z")
> [@Salem](#): > > Boston, Manchester NH, Connecticut, LaGuardia, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Charlotte, Cincinatti, Lexington KY, West Palm FL- think that’s it for the states > > London, Milan Italy, Amsterdam, Nice FR, Germany (I was little and don’t know which one) > > Those are the ones I remember. Only 16. I feel so travel-challenged now. Thanks. 😉 And Rhode Island! How could I forget the bustling Rhode Island airport! There, now it’s 17. And with Rhode Island on the list, I’m obviously much more widely traveled than I realized. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/64 "2010-11-22T16:28:07Z")
Lessee: Raleigh Durham (RDU) Washington National (DCA) Harrisburg International Bus Terminal (i.e. before they updated it to bring it into the 20th century) Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) Charlotte International (CLT?) Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Seattle Indianapolis Chicago O’Hare (ORD?) Newark (NRK) San Francisco Honolulu Hilo Denver Orange County / John Wayne (SNA?) LA International (LAX) LaGuardia (LGU) Kennedy (JFK) Dulles (IAD) Pittsburgh Boston (Logan) Providence RI Pensacola FL San Diego Philadelphia Phoenix Las Vegas Albuquerque (does this count? We didn’t deplane there but the plane did stop). I think that’s all - did a mental run-through of all the places I’d been. This is (mostly) in the order I first visited each of these, also. Looks like 28 all told. ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/65 "2010-11-22T16:45:10Z")
[ol] [li]Toronto Pearson[/li][li]Montreal Dorval[/li][li]Thunder Bay[/li][li]Fort Frances[/li][li]Saskatoon[/li][li]Calgary[/li][li]Victoria[/li][li]Gatwick (UK)[/li][li]Manchester (UK)[/li][li]Glasgow[/li][li]London Heathrow[/li][li]Birmingham[/li][li]Amsterdam Schipol[/li][li]Belgrade[/li][li]Istanbul Atatürk[/li][li]Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen[/li][li]İzmir (Turkey)[/li][li]Kayseri (Turkey)[/li][li]Kilimanjaro TZ[/li][li]Arusha TZ[/li][li]Dar Es Salaam TZ[/li][li]Zanzibar TZ[/li][li]Miami[/li][li]Las Vegas[/li][li]San Francisco[/li][li]Laguardia (probably shouldn’t count since we didn’t get off the plane)[/li][/ol] I think we’ve given our 9 year olds a good start… [ol] [li]Toronto Pearson[/li][li]Manchester (UK)[/li][li]London Heathrow[/li][li]Amsterdam Schipol[/li][li]Belgrade[/li][li]Istanbul Atatürk[/li][li]Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen[/li][li]İzmir (Turkey)[/li][li]Kayseri (Turkey)[/li][li]Kilimanjaro TZ[/li][li]Arusha TZ[/li][li]Dar Es Salaam TZ[/li][li]Zanzibar TZ[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/66 "2010-11-22T16:46:30Z")
Combination of work and pleasure trips: 1. Houston, TX (IAH) 2. Houston, TX (HOU) 3. Dallas, TX (DFW) 4. Dallas, TX (DAL) 5. Austin, TX (AUS) 6. San Antonio, TX (SAT) 7. Midland, TX (MAF) 8. El Paso, TX (ELP) 9. Phoenix, AZ (PHX) 10. Los Angeles, CA (LAX) 11. Ontario, CA (ONT) 12. Monterey, CA (MRY) 13. San Francisco, CA (SFO) 14. San Jose, CA (SJC) 15. Seattle, WA (SEA) 16. Missoula, MT (MSO) 17. Denver, CO (DEN) 18. Minneapolis, MN (MSP) 19. Des Moines, IA (DSM) 20. Lawton, OK (LAW) 21. St. Louis, MO (STL) 22. Little Rock, AR (LIT) 23. New Orleans, LA (MSY) 24. Mobile, AL (MOB) 25. Birmingham, AL (BHM) 26. Memphis, TN (MEM) 27. Nashville, TN (BNA) 28. Jackson, TN (MKL) 29. Chicago, IL (ORD) 30. Milwaukee, WI (MKE) 31. La Crosse, WI (LSE) 32. Eau Claire, WI (EAU) 33. Black River Falls, WI 34. Detroit, MI (DTW) 35. Flint, MI (FNT) 36. Grand Rapids, MI (GRR) 37. Traverse City, MI (TVC) 38. Indianapolis, IN (IND) 39. Cleveland, OH (CLE) 40. Miami, FL (MIA) 41. Orlando, FL (MCO) 42. Atlanta, GA (ATL) 43. Savannah, GA (SAV) 44. Raleigh, NC (RDU) 45. Charlotte, NC (CLT) 46. Richmond, VA (RIC) 47. Washington, DC (DCA) 48. Baltimore, MD (BWI) 49. Philadelphia, PA (PHL) 50. Newark, NJ (EWR) 51. New York, NY (JFK) 52. Albany, NY (ALB) 53. Syracuse, NY (SYR) 54. Buffalo, NY (BUF) 55. Hartford, CT (BDL) 56. Boston, MA (BOS) 57. Manchester, NH (MHT) 58. Portland, ME (PWM) 59. Charleston, SC (CHS) 60. Honolulu, HI (HNL) 61. Kahului, HI (OGG) 62. Kona, HI (KOA) 63. Flores, Guatemala (FRS) 64. Guatemala City, Guatemala (GUA) 65. Rome, Italy (FCO) 66. Berlin, Germany (TXL) 67. Paris, France (CDG) There may be one or two more that I forgot, but these are for sure. ---
**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, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/67 "2010-11-22T17:25:31Z")
Damn, also forgot: Montreal Fajardo, PR Denver Grand Rapids, MN I’m now up to 101: seems like I’ve spent most of my life on airplanes. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/68 "2010-11-22T17:26:57Z")
Akron/Canton, OH Boston, MA O’Hare, Chicago, IL Cleveland, OH Columbus, OH Denver, CO Detroit, MI Grand Canyon, AZ Hilo, HI Honolulu, HI Houston, TX JFK, NYC Kahului, Maui, HI La Guardia, NYC Miami, FL Newark, NJ Page, AZ Phoenix, AZ Salt Lake City, UT San Francisco, CA San Jose, CA Tampa, FL Washington, DC Amsterdam Barcelona Caracas Casablanca Charles De Gaulle, Paris Guadeloupe Heathrow, London Madrid Martinique Milan Orly, Paris Rome Vienna ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/69 "2010-11-22T17:35:24Z")
Not that many Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN Orlando, FL Indianapolis, IN St. Louis, MO Midway - Chicago, IL Atlanta, GA JFK - New York City, NY Ben Gurion - Tel Aviv, Israel (Being interrogated _is_ fun!) Amman, Jordan So, nine. I need to travel more. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/70 "2010-11-22T18:11:24Z")
I’m somewhere up around 50 right now, and still counting. Here’s the only ones I can’t find on anyone else’s lists: 1. Samara, Russia 2. Tri-Cities, TN 3. Kalispell, MT And possibly whatever airport serves the Four Corners area. I can’t even remember whether the airport was in Durango, Farmington, or where. It’s been nearly 20 years since I flew there. But it’s hard to tell whether or not it’s already on someone’s list. ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/71 "2010-11-22T18:23:36Z")
1. Saskatoon, SK 2. Edmonton, AB 3. Calgary, AB 4. Vancouver, BC 5. Vancouver YVR south 6. Kelowna, BC 7. Toronto, ON 8. Ottawa, ON 9. Halifax, NS 10. St.John’s, NF 11. Ft.St.John, BC 12. Winnipeg, MN 13. Dorval (Trudeau), QC 14. Mirabel, QC 15. Powell River, BC 16. Logan 17. LAX 18. JFK 19. LaGuardia 20. Newark 21. Dulles 22. San Fransisco 23. Ithaca-Thompson 24. Philadelphia 25. Heathrow 26. Gatwick 27. Stanstead 28. Luton 29. Southampton 30. Prestwick 31. Glasgow 32. Edinburgh 33. Amsterdam (Schiphol) 34. Berlin (Tegel) 35. Berlin (Schonefeld) 36. Frankfurt 37. Prague 38. Zadar 39. Dubrovnik 40. Paris (Orly) 41. Paris (De Gaulle) 42. Rome 43. Milan (Malpensa) 44. Milan (Linate) 45. Aukland 46. Sydney 47. Melbourne 48. Bermuda 49. Trinidad (Piarco) So close to an even 50 - so close! The only one I think I have that nobody else has listed is Zadar, Croatia. It wasn’t very exciting. ---
**Author:** ![Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pasta)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/72 "2010-11-22T20:22:08Z")
41 at least, but I’m sure I’ve left off a few. Burbank BUR Los Angeles LAX Sacramento SMF San Francisco SFO San Jose SJC Oakload OAK El Monte EMT Santa Barbara SBA Las Vegas LAS Dallas-Forth Worth DFW Houston IAH Seattle/Tacoma SEA Gulfport GPT New Orleans MSY Chicago MDW Chicago ORD Indianapolis IND Denvec DEN Catalina CIB Newark EWR Philadelphia PHL New York JFK New York LGA Boston BOS Manchester MHT Baltimore BWI Washington IAD Columbus GTR Atlanta ATL Minneapolis/St. Paul MSP St. Louis STL Phoenix PHX Central Wisconsin CWA Detroit DTW Van Nuys VNY London LHR Rome FCO Palermo PMO Tokyo NRT Belize City BZE Dangriga DGA ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/73 "2010-11-22T21:36:00Z")
Wow. 18 is higher than I’d have guessed. Columbia, SC Charlotte, NC Smith-Reynolds Field (the small field in Winston-Salem, NC; private plane) one in Atlanta that isn’t ATL (DeKalb, I think; private plane) Piedmont Triad (Winston-Salem/Greensboro/High Point, NC) Chicago (O’Hare) Newark, NJ Rochester, NY Philadelphia, PA (I think) someplace in central PA near Lancaster, possibly Lancaster Washington, DC (Reagan when it was National) Pittsburgh, PA Washington, DC (Dulles) Frankfurt, Germany Cairo, Egypt Minneapolis, MN Phoenix, AZ Cleveland, OH I’m assuming by “been to” the OP means “actually flown in or out through.” The ones where I’ve just visited the airport (like to drop someone off) would add a few more. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/74 "2010-11-22T21:40:30Z")
These lists are a lot more fun to write than they are to read, but here goes: Columbus Cleveland Cincinnati Pittsburgh Philadelphia Wilkes-Barre JFK Logan Dulles Reagan BWI Atlanta Ft Myers San Juan Reno Las Vegas Houston Minneapolis Detroit Seattle Portland San Francisco Oakland San Diego Sitka Anchorage O’Hare Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg Düsseldorf Frankfurt Charles de Gaulle Orly Heathrow Gatwick …I need to travel more. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/75 "2010-11-22T21:43:30Z")
Mine will be easy, as I have only flown once. Blue Grass Airport, Lexington, KY Hartsfield-Jackson, Atlanta, GA Jackson-Evers, Jackson, MS The return part of that round trip ticket went unused. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/76 "2010-11-22T22:18:19Z")
Nine O’Hare Orlando Frankfurt, Germany Miami Guayaquil, Ecuador Baltra, Galapagos, Ecuador Quito, Ecuador LAX Vancouver, BC ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/77 "2010-11-22T22:25:51Z")
50+: LaGuardia JFK Newark DCA IAD Raleigh, NC Vancouver Cincinatti Pittsburgh Philadelphia Venice Rome Munich Frankfort Lisbon Amsterdam Berlin Hamburg Heathrow Paris Dublin Yankton Sioux Falls Sioux City Minneapolis Omaha Atlanta Biloxi Brownsville St. Thomas (USVI) San Juan, PR Ft. Lauderdale Orlando Miami Manchester Boston Cleveland Denver Phoenix LAX Ontario (CA) SFO San Jose SLC Oakland Seattle Kansas City St. Louis Ohare Midway ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/78 "2010-11-22T22:26:11Z")
San Diego LA San Francisco Oakland La Guardia JFK Pittsburgh Tuscon Phoenix Albuquerque Minneapolis St.Paul Dulles Honolulu Kona Lihue Kahului Sydney Melbourne Adelaide Perth Exmouth Connellan (Ayers Rock) Launceston (Tasmania) Christchurch Auckland Gatwick ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/79 "2010-11-22T22:27:05Z")
Not a whole lot, given my age, but then I’ve never had a job that required me to travel. LAX Burbank San Diego Long Beach (just a short stop followed by a hop to Burbank–shortest commercial flight I’ve ever been on although I doubt they actually sell tickets for just Long Beach to Burbank). San Francisco Oakland SLC St. Louis (Lambert) Columbus, OH O’Hare Pittsburgh JFK Bangor, Maine Las Vegas Milan Rome Malaga Madrid Frankfurt Zurich So, 20. It’s more than I expected, but virtually all this travel was more than ten years ago. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/80 "2010-11-22T22:33:30Z")
Limiting it to commercial airports (my father used to fly us around to small airfields all the time when I was a kid, but there’s no way I’d be able to remember them all): Manchester, NH Portland, ME Logan (Boston) JFK LaGuardia Newark Cincinnati Charlotte, NC Atlanta Detroit St. Louis O’Hare Midway Memphis San Diego Philadelphia Pittsburgh BWI Rome, Italy Heathrow Keflavik (Iceland) So, 21 that I remember. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506.md?page=5)