# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/81 "2010-11-22T22:36:04Z")
Huntsville, AL Fayetteville, AR Los Angeles, CA San Francisco, CA Colorado Springs, CO Miami, FL Atlanta, GA Honolulu, HI Kahului, HI Chicago, IL (O’Hare) Chicago, IL (Midway) Louisville, KY Baton Rouge, LA Monroe, LA New Orleans, LA Shreveport, LA Boston, MA Detroit, MI Jackson, MS St. Louis, MO Manchester, NH New York JFK New York LaGuardia Greensboro, NC Cincinatti, OH Dayton, OH Philadelphia, PA Providence, RI Nashville, TN Memphis, TN Austin, TX Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Houston Intercontinental Houston Hobby West Lebanon, NH Richmond, VA Washington Reagan Washington Dulles San Juan, PR St. Thomas, USVI St. Croix, USVI Milan Paris (2 airports) Frankfurt Managua, Nicaragua San Jose, Costa Rica ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/82 "2010-11-22T22:37:39Z")
**North America** Sea-Tac; Boeing Field; Vancouver; Yreka; Truckee; Columbia; Reno; Modesto; Concord; SFO; Oakland; Palo Alto; Monterrey; Stockton; Livermore; Napa; Santa Rosa; LAX; Orange County; Palm Springs; Long Beach; San Diego; Las Vegas; Nellis AFB; Phoenix; Tucson; Albuquerque; Boseman; Jackson Hole; Denver; DFW; Houston; Tijuana; San Leon; Des Moines; Twin Cities; Eau Claire; Chicago O’Hare; Detroit; Cleveland; Charlie West; Martinsburg; Beckley; Atlanta; Miami; Tampa; Pensacola; Atlanta; Charlotte; Raleigh; Norfolk; Dulles; Reagan National; BWI; Andrews AFB; Oceana NAS; Hurlburt Field; Eglin AFB; Newark; JFK; La Guardia; Pittsburgh; Philadelphia; Freeway Airport; Potomac Airfield; Hyde Field; New Haven; New London; Westerly; Willemantic; Providence; Plymouth; Boston; Springfield; Hartford; Meriden; Block Island; Honolulu; Kauai; Maui; Kona; Hilo; Dead Horse; unnamed airstrip on Arctic icepack; Guadeloupe **South America** Lima; Cusco; Puno **Africa** Cairo; Djibouti; Addis; Nairobi; Lamu; Cape Town; J’berg; Windhoek **Europe** Iceland (I’m not spelling the capital city); Heathrow; Stansted; CDG; Brussels; Barcelona; Zurich; Frankfurt; Stuttgart; Stockholm; Copenhagen; Angelholm; Ostersund; Belgrade; Kosovo; Podgorica; somewhere in Macedonia; Ankara; Istanbul **Middle East** Kuwait; Bahrain; Dubai; Doha; Abu Dhabi; Amman **Asia** Beijing; Kunming; Hong Kong; Guangzhou; Bangkok; Manilla; Zamboanga; Okinawa; Tokyo; Seoul; Kagoshima (I think); Kyoto; Guam That’s 130 or more, plus I’m certain there’s quite a few more small airports that I’ve just forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/83 "2010-11-22T22:38:55Z")
**USA** Newark La Guardia JFK Portland ME Buffalo Detroit Denver Salt Lake City LAX Ontario CA San Francisco Miami Orlando Atlanta Las Vegas Baltimore-Washington San Juan, PR **Europe** Heathrow Amsterdam Madrid **Africa** Marrakech **Asia** Tel Aviv Tokyo Bangkok Chiang Mai, Thailand Ho Chi Minh City Siem Reap, Cambodia Pakse, Laos Vientiane, Laos Luang Prabang, Laos Hanoi Danang, Vietnam **Oceania** Suva, Fiji Auckland NZ Rotorua NZ Wellington NZ Queenstown NZ **South America** Lima Cusco, Peru Puerto Maldonado, Peru **Central America and Carribbean** Aruba San Jose, Costa Rica ETA: 42! ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/84 "2010-11-23T00:27:12Z")
29 total. Fort Lauderdale, FL Orlando International, FL Atlanta, GA Raleigh-Durham, NC Charlotte, NC New York, NY - LaGuardia New York, NY - JFK Phoenix, AZ Los Angeles, CA San Francisco, CA Moline, IL Chicago, IL - Ohare Chicago, IL - Midway Des Moines, IA Detroit, MI Minneapolis, MN St. Louis, MO Las Vegas, NV Newark, NJ Cleveland, OH Tulsa, OK Philadelphia, PA Pittsburgh, PA Austin, TX Dallas-Ft Worth, TX Dallas, TX - Love Field Washington DC - Reagan London, England - Heathrow Paris, France - Charles de Gaulle ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/85 "2010-11-23T02:15:06Z")
As far as I can recall, about 75. I won’t list them all, but I have flown into all three major New York airports, both Dallas-Fort Worth airports, both of Chicago’s, both of Houston’s old and new Denver, and two out of three in San Francisco. And for no explicable reason, I’ve flown to every city in North Carolina that has at least regional airline service. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/86 "2010-11-23T03:59:35Z")
Peoria, IL Chicago O’Hare Chicago Midway Bloomington-Normal, IL the old Denver Stapleton Denver International Los Angeles (LAX) San Francisco San Diego San Jose, CA Seattle-Tacoma Gainesville, FL Miami Orlando Jacksonville Atlanta Hartsfield Washington National Washington Dulles Baltimore-Washington JFK, New York New York Laguardia Newark Boston Logan Detroit Dallas-Ft. Worth Houston Intercontinental San Antonio Phoenix Salt Lake City Cincinnati Raleigh-Durham Ben Gurion (Tel Aviv) Beijing Lima, Peru San Jose, Costa Rica Paris Charles de Gaulle Total: 36 Three more where I had a stopover but never actually got off the plane: Lincoln, NE Moline, IL Des Moines, IA ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/87 "2010-11-23T04:10:13Z")
65-ish, I think: Birmingham Anchorage Phoenix Little Rock LAX San Francisco Denver Orlando (I think – definitely at least one in Florida) Atlanta Chicago O’Hare Chicago Midway Fort Wayne South Bend Louisville BWI Boston - Logan Detroit Flint Kalamazoo Saginaw Minneapolis / St. Paul Columbus, MS St. Louis Las Vegas Newark JFK Laguardia Raleigh / Durham Charlotte Columbus (I think? Somewhere in Ohio, anyway) Hilton Head Sioux Falls Memphis Dallas / Fort Worth Salt Lake City Washington-Dulles Washington-National Newport News Seattle / Tacoma Walla Walla Madison Toronto Montreal Vancouver Nassau Santo Domingo Grand Cayman Ixtapa / Zihuatanajo San Juan London-Heathrow Manchester Madrid Barcelona Valencia Paris (not sure which, but definitely one of them) Amsterdam Frankfurt Vienna Zurich Prague Milan Rome Sofia Rarotonga Nadi, Fiji Auckland ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/88 "2010-11-23T05:53:21Z")
1. Columbus, Oh 2. Pittsburgh, PA 3. Washington, DC Dulles Ronald Reagan 4. Orlando, FL 5. Lexington, KY 6. St. Louis, MO 7. Minnapolis, MN 8. Houston, TX 9. Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX 10. Denver, CO Both of them 11. Laramie, WY 12. Rock Springs, WY 13. Lander, WY 14. Chicago, IL 15. Detroit, MI 16. Salt Lake City, UT 17. Phoenix, AZ 18. Las Vegas, NV 19. Reno, NV 20. Las Angelas, CA 21. Travis Air Force Base, CA 22. Honalulu, HI 23. Guam 24. Okinawa 25. Danang 26. Santiago, Chile 27. Sydney, Aus. 28. Puerta Valarta, Mexico 29. Baltimore, MD ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/89 "2010-11-23T06:16:23Z")
Spokane Los Angeles International Sacramento Reno Boise San Jose San Francisco San Diego Ontario (California) Chicago-O’ Hare Washington , D.C.-Reagan National) Baltimore-Washington Seattle/Tacoma Minneapolis/St. Paul Washington, D.C.-Dulles Portland (OR) Phoenix Orlando Las Vegas Visited but didn’t fly out of Walla Walla Tri-Cities (Pasco-Kennewick-Richland, WA) ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/90 "2010-11-23T17:47:40Z")
Philadelphia, Orlando, Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle, Detroit, Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, Indianapolis. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/91 "2010-11-23T17:52:16Z")
Not that many. Looks like 8, and three of those are just the local ones here. Dulles BWI Reagan National Denver Miami Las Vegas Spokane Cancun ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/92 "2010-11-23T18:09:59Z")
Not sure I’ll remember all of them (not like there’s that many): Portland, ME Bangor, ME Frenchville, ME (that’s not so much an airport as a landing strip) Logan - Boston, MA Manchester, NH JFK - New York, NY LaGuardia - New York, NY Newark, NJ Buffalo, NY Cleveland, OH Philadelphia, PA Baltimore, MD Atlanta, GA Charleston, SC Orlando, FL San Francisco, CA Oakland, CA I think that’s it – 16 1/2. ---
**Author:** ![Scougs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scougs/32/3158_2.png) [@Scougs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scougs)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/93 "2010-11-23T18:10:12Z")
1. One away from being able to say “69, Dude”. You guys will probably be amazed at the density of the airports in the UK. UK: 1 Edinburgh 2 Glasgow 3 Aberdeen 4 Oban (more of an airstrip, really) 5 Newcastle 6 East Midlands 7 Birmingham 8 Manchester 9 London Heathrow 10 London Gatwick 11 London Stansted 12 London Luton 13 Southampton Americas: 14 Boston 15 Newark 16 Tampa 17 Barbados 18 Jamaica 19 Aruba 20 Lima 21 Nazca 22 Arequipa 23 Cuzco 24 Juliaca, Peru (Puno) 25 Cancun 26 Merida 27 Mexico City 28 Acapulco 29 Flores, Guatemala Europe: 30 Kelfavik, Iceland 31 Dublin 32 Marseilles 33 Bordeaux 34 Nice 35 Amsterdam 36 Brussels 37 Copenhagen 38 Gothenburg 39 Stockholm 40 Helsinki 41 Basel 42 Vienna 43 Budapest 44 Moscow 45 Zagreb 46 Munich 47 Frankfurt 48 Lisbon 49 Barcelona 50 Palma, Mallorca 51 Menorca 52 Naples 53 Alghero, Sardinia 54 Cagliari, Sardinia 55 Dalaman 56 Corfu 57 Heraklion, Crete 58 Preveza, Greece 59 Kefallonia 60 Rhodes Africa: 61 Monastir 62 Nairobi 63 Ngerende, Masai Mara, Kenya 64 Zanzibar 65 Cairo 66 Luxor 67 Aswan 68 Abu Simbel Will get the magical 69th in May next year when I add Oporto, and reach 70 when I go to India in November. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/94 "2010-11-23T18:29:55Z")
I really need to get off this continent! 1. Toronto, Ontario 2. Calgary, Alberta 3. Ottawa, Ontario 4. Vancouver, BC 5. Honolulu, HI 6. Lihue, HI 7. Kona, HI 8. Los Angeles, CA 9. Edmonton, AB 10. Winnipeg, MB 11. Montreal, QC 12. St.Louis, MI 13. Houston, TX 14. Dallas,TX 15. Cozumel, MX 16. CFB Borden 17. CFB Uplands 18. CFB Trenton 19. Halifax, NS 20. Chicago, Il 21. NY, NY (Kennedy) 22. NY, NY (La Guardia) 23. Anchorage, Alaska And the one I think might be an original here: 1. Mile 1, Alaska pipeline (no idea what the airport was called) ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/95 "2010-11-23T19:01:28Z")
Lets see. Newark JFK Washington DC Cincinnati Detroit Traverse City, MI Indianapolis Fort Wayne West Lafayette, IN Champaign, IL Bloomington, IL O’Hare Atlanta New Orleans Miami Orlando Springfield, MO Wichita Kansas City, MO? Las Vegas San Francisco Houston El Paso Saint Thomas Bonaire Heathrow Charles de Gaulle Munich Domodedovo (Moscow) Florence Copenhagen Best: Detroit Worst: Charles de Gaulle Most loved: Heathrow ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/96 "2010-11-23T20:49:29Z")
**Ireland** Belfast City Belfast International Dublin **UK** Aberdeen Edinburgh Glasgow Leeds Bradford Newcastle Liverpool Luton Stanstead Gatwick Heathrow Jersey **Europe** Paris-CDG Paris-Orly Schipol Malaga Pisa Rome- Ciampino Rome-Fiumicino Venice Marco Polo Florence Bergamo Prague Barcelona Crete Malta Gozo (by helicopter) Faro **Rest of world** LAX Auckland Sydney Melbourne Singapore Delhi Mumbai Hurghada (Egypt) I make that 38- and all for pleasure, not business. Lucky me. ---
**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 23, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/97 "2010-11-23T21:04:35Z")
> [@Scougs](#): > > 1. One away from being able to say “69, Dude”. > > Will get the magical 69th in May next year when I add Oporto, and reach 70 when I go to India in November. If at all possible, make time to drive up the Douro River valley into the wine region. It’s spectacular. **Moonlitherial** : Mile 1 would be just outside of Prudhoe Bay, which has its own airport (PUO). It’s also called the Deadhorse Airport, but that’s not official. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/98 "2010-11-23T21:23:07Z")
A few more I forgot: St. Louis Tampa Cuzco, Peru bringing my total to 39 (plus the three that I disqualified). ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/99 "2010-11-24T01:20:52Z")
Can’t even begin to count. I was in the travel business for 25 years. Got to go everywhere for free. In just three states alone (CA, FL and TX) I’ve been to over 15 airports. Internationally it’s gotta be over 20. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506/100 "2010-11-24T01:45:40Z")
I did a military career. I long ago lost track, and that’s _waaay_ too big a number, IMO. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-airports-have-you-been-to/561506.md?page=6)