# How many states have you flown within? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749 "2015-09-02T21:18:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/41 "2015-09-04T23:26:21Z")
Hawaii and Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/42 "2015-09-04T23:56:14Z")
Between the post 9/11 security theater delays & the trip from Hell, where I saw not one but both of my connecting flights sitting at the gate but got there too late to board, I do my best to avoid shorter &/or connecting flights, so only PHL-PGH. > [@Bumbershoot](#): > > I’ve gone skydiving in 37 states- landed at the same airport I took off from in each one, but not in the airplane. I’ve landed with the aircraft\*, but not at an airport in CT DE PA NJ NM NY & QUE province - hot air balloons ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/43 "2015-09-05T00:07:40Z")
One–Illinois. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/44 "2015-09-05T22:48:32Z")
Only Texas. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/45 "2015-09-06T00:32:43Z")
FL: MIA-Orlando, Orlando-Ft. Lauderdale NV: Vegas-Reno/Reno-Vegas TX: San Antonio-Dallas WA: Spokane-SeaTac ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/46 "2015-09-06T01:09:43Z")
Around age four I took a private plane trip in a six seater from Tennessee to Nebraska that included many stops, quite possibly some of those hops were within a single state, but I can’t be sure of the route. Since then on commercial flights I’ve had intrastate hops in Alaska, Florida and Utah. Don’t recall any others. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/47 "2015-09-06T02:12:59Z")
Only California and Hawaii. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/48 "2015-09-06T18:08:10Z")
One: California. From LAX to Orange County airport :smack: . It was the second leg of a Chicago to Orange County flight - does that count? It still felt stupid. It was a business trip arranged by someone else. I’d much rather have rented a car at LAX than take that second hop. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/49 "2015-09-06T18:48:41Z")
Texas and Oklahoma. Stupid flight that literally hopped across the country. Somebody on board thought that we weren’t getting drinks because of Okla & Texas’s stupid liquor laws at the time, nope, it was because we were never in the air long enough. It was like being on a bus, kind of. OKC to Lawton to Wichita Falls to Dallas to, I forget, ending up in Lubbock. Obviously I was not in a good place to begin with if I was going from OKC to Lubbock. Kind of a parallel move between two not-good places. That flight did not help. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/50 "2015-09-06T19:34:13Z")
Wholly within… only Texas and California. Houston-Corpus, Houston-Dallas, Houston-Austin, Austin-Dallas, Dallas-San Antonio, Dallas-El Paso in Texas. Oakland-LAX in California. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/51 "2015-09-06T20:00:38Z")
In the USA, I have done 42 states. Extreme N/E ones have been missed. Counting overseas & military, unknown because I am not sure where their internal borders are/were. Never been on the ground in Alaska much to my dismay. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/52 "2015-09-06T20:09:07Z")
LA to SF in California, like many other people (I think LAX-OAK, specifically). Tri-Cities to Knoxville and Nashville to Memphis in Tennessee, like maybe 1-2 other people. (By the way, there are currently _no_ scheduled commercial passenger flights within Tennessee. However, as you might guess, FedEx does fly from Memphis to both Knoxville and Nashville.) ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/53 "2015-09-06T21:04:16Z")
Louisiana (Shreveport - New Orleans) Texas (Houston - Dallas) Massachusetts (all over in private planes) Maine (same) Rhode Island (same) California (LA - San Fran) Hawaii (from several islands to another) Colorado (Denver - Colorado Springs) - that is an extremely short flight Ohio - (Dayton - Cincinnati) USVI - (St. Thomas - St. Croix) ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/54 "2015-09-06T21:47:42Z")
Wisconsin. Flew from Fond du Lac to Prairie du Chien in foul weather, in what felt like a soup can with wings and a rubber-band powered propeller. Decades later it’s still the most unpleasant flying experience I’ve ever had. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/55 "2015-09-06T21:59:48Z")
Texas: Dallas to Wichita Falls Hawaii: Honolulu to Maui California: Many times between the Bay Area and Los Angeles I had one flight that went Washington -\> Atlanta -\> New Orleans -\> Shreveport -\> San Jose -\> Oakland, so on that one flight I flew within Louisiana and within California. There was a problem with a flight from Shreveport to San Jose so they rerouted our New Orleans to Oakland flight to pick up people in Shreveport and take them to San Jose then resume our trip to Oakland. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/56 "2015-09-06T22:39:33Z")
I was going to say none, then I remembered two. Memphis to Chattanooga, TN San Diego to San Jose, CA Chattanooga, TN to Atlanta, GA flights, which I’ve done many times, were shorter than either of those. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/57 "2015-09-06T23:10:31Z")
Just New York (Albany to Islip) and Hawaii (Maui to Honolulu). ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/58 "2015-09-07T14:11:06Z")
California New York Illinois And just because I feel like mentioning it … Quebec ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/59 "2015-09-07T18:16:44Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Only Texas. Correction - I guess I have to add Arizona. Grand Canyon Airways, sightseeing flight over the Canyon. Although I can’t really call it flying, as I spent the first 3 minutes taking pictures and the remaining 57 minutes projectile vomiting everything except my toenails. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749/60 "2015-09-08T16:42:04Z")
Texas: Twice Dallas to Houston (and back) Dallas to Laredo (and back) I may have taken a flight from Albany to LaGuardia…a long time ago [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-flown-within/729749.md?page=4)