# Inside How Many Countries Have You Flown Domestically?

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**Created:** [September 1, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-how-many-countries-have-you-flown-domestically/729566 "2015-09-01T02:01:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
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I think I count six: The US, Thailand, China, Vietnam, Nepal and Indonesia.

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China, the U.S., India (i think…can’t remember), the Philippines, Peru, and Belize.

I think that’s it.

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One!

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U.S., Canada, China, New Zealand

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19:

US  
Mexico  
Guatemala  
Honduras  
Panama  
Brazil  
Venezuela  
Ecuador  
Peru  
Argentina  
India  
Philippines  
Nigeria  
Cameroon  
Gabon  
South Africa  
Madagascar  
Australia  
New Zealand

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**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-how-many-countries-have-you-flown-domestically/729566/6 "2015-09-01T02:26:00Z")

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U.S. Canada England. Germany Austria. Luxembourg.

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**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-how-many-countries-have-you-flown-domestically/729566/7 "2015-09-01T02:32:37Z")

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US, Canada, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan (Gesundheit), Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, and one other place. (15)

Some of those were not commercial flights but the were domestic.

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Doesn’t have to be commercial. Any ol’ flight will do.

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US, Canada, Germany

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US, Canada, (former) Yugoslavia, (former) USSR

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> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> I think I count six: The US, Thailand, China, Vietnam, Nepal and Indonesia.

To expand, my one domestic flight in Nepal was unique in that it was Kathmandu to Kathmandu. It was a sightseeing flight around Mt. Everest – or as much around it as one can go and not enter Chinese airspace – on Buddha Air.

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**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-how-many-countries-have-you-flown-domestically/729566/12 "2015-09-01T03:18:38Z")

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[ul]  
[li]Australia[/li][li]New Zealand[/li][li]India[/li][li]Indonesia[/li][/ul]

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**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-how-many-countries-have-you-flown-domestically/729566/13 "2015-09-01T03:23:09Z")

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Just one, the United States.

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United States

> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> Doesn’t have to be commercial. Any ol’ flight will do.

In that case, Canada; a float plane on Rainy Lake in Ontario.

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Australia, Canada, Spain and the US.

I would have had two in China, except that in 1996 a flight between Hong Kong and Beijing was international.

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> [@Giles](#):
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> I would have had two in China, except that in 1996 a flight between Hong Kong and Beijing was international.

I wonder if it still sort of is. Would a Chinese visa be recognized today in Hong Kong or vice versa? Or like their money, do you still need different?

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Spain, France, Italy, US, UK, Costa Rica.

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U.S.  
New Zealand  
Tanzania  
Mexico  
U.K.  
Peru

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USA, Angola, Ecuador, Egypt, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, United Kingdom. Most of the ones outside the US were oilfield charters.

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**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-how-many-countries-have-you-flown-domestically/729566/20 "2015-09-01T08:19:26Z")

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Pakistan. US. UK. France. Saudi Arabia. Turkey.

Do helicopter rides count? Then UAE. Balloons? Then Greece, and I landed about 40 miles away. ;).

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