When I lived there United flew out of it. I guess Frontier got their slots. The Harrisburg flight continued to Chicago.
Back when frequent flier programs were new we got free first class tickets to Hawaii for doing 8 legs on United. We started in TTN - in first class. The only people in first class, It was fun.
IIRC Piedmont flew to Boston and Washington.
Yeah, I’m going to guess that there are a lot of airports in the Caribbean not much larger than this one. I’ve flown in/out of Treasure Cay, Roatan, and Beef Island, which all have single landing strips and not much in the way of terminals, especially Treasure Cay and Beef Island.
There is a small airport in Mattituck, NY, about ten minutes from where I grew up. My father had a pilot’s license and would fly out of there and would take me up in the plane. It had a single runway, grass when I was growing up, though it was paved some time later. Just a bunch of small aircraft, no tower. It did have a facility for rebuilding aircraft engines (something you needed to do every few years for light planes) and aviation fuel. The closest it came to being famous was when JFK, Jr., crashed; early reports indicated he was near there.
Schroon Lake, NY has one even smaller. Also a single airstrip, but this had no aviation flew.
Not really an airport, but once out riding motorcycles in the desert I came across a tiny little dry lake. It had a set of wheel tracks that suddenly appeared, went to the edge, turned around and headed off and disappeared again. Maybe someone had to take a quick pee or something.
I love the airport on Mackinac Island. A nice paved strip, shelter with bathrooms, and a directory of island numbers, so you can call a horse-drawn carriage to come get you and your luggage.
No fuel there though, so make sure you’ve adequate fuel to leave there, before you go there.
A friend’s roommate was a pilot, and we flew from Ft. Lauderdale to Staniel Cay. No beacon - I had to match the shape of the island to the map. No fuel either, or course.
We walked to the houseboat we rented. The restaurant on the island had placemats with a map of the island with every house on it marked.
Rogers field in Chester, California is nice… it’s about a mile ride into town and you can borrow a bicycle from the airport manager. Of course, you’ll need your own plane as there are no commercial flights.
Welke airport on Beaver Island, MI was quite the nice place. The owner at the time I was there drove us to town and gave us a tour around the island. He also showed us his Beaver, a truly classic bush vehicle.
For regular commercial airports but that are on the small size, I like Burbank and Amarillo.
I seem to remember that Burbank is so small, when the plane backs away from the terminal, it isn’t on a taxi way, but right on the runway.
Burbank. Looks like they don’t have jetways, either. Bonus: no long taxiing times.
Amarillo has two gates, IIRC. I love the boarding info monitors. Amarillo has several flights daily, but no matter the flight, it lists it as being from gate 2. Gave me a chuckle.
We went on a Caribbean cruise in '93, and one of our “shore activities” was a day trip from Cozumel to the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza. We traveled there by turboprop plane, and landed at “Chichen Itza International Airport”. At that time, the airport consisted of a dirt runway, a hut, and a windsock; transportation to the ruins was via a fleet of VW Beetle taxis.
I see that, in the intervening years, the airstrip has been paved, and there might actually be several buildings there.
As far as US airports go, I always liked Austin Straubel, the airport in Green Bay (my hometown). When I was growing up, it was 8 gates (only four of which were actually in use); it’s been renovated in the past decade or so, and is now up to 12 gates. Alas, parking is no longer free there.
Ambergris Caye, Belize is a favorite airport. Landing aircraft sometimes have to do a go around because the children use the runway for playing soccer.
Looks like the airstrip was paved and they finally put up a perimeter fence since I was last there many years ago.
Placencia’s airport in Belize has this excellent sign on the road as you drive in
Meh, Gisborne airport has a rail line acrossthe runway. And the trains get right of way.
If there’s a military base nearby, I may have flown in there.
Monterey, CA. It’s like the adorable talking teddy bear of airports.
Air Force Academy Airport. I once landed there when I was still flying SEL, when there was the ultimate right of way test question for pilots going on. At the airport, simultaneously there was powered engine, gliders, and I swear, a helicopter in the air. So this was in the 70’s, I think the glider program was closed down in the 80s after a tragedy. I may have landed there once when a hot air balloon was in the air but memory fades. There was just so much aviation sh* going on, all.the.time.
Sault Ste Marie, Ontario (YAM*) is a pleasant little airport. It’s about 1h15 from Toronto via Dash 8 turboprop… the difference is astounding. I go up there to visit my sister.
You board the plane at Pearson Airport (YYZ) just outside Toronto, the largest airport in Canada, with its traffic and maze of multi-level freeway access ramps and airport train built overtop of the freeway access ramps and bus stops in the bowels of the terminal building and crowds and complexity and vast spaces and escalators and people-mover to the other terminal and embedded hotels and 67 airlines and connections to connections to places you’ve never even heard of.
To find your gate, you follow a passage to the side and go down to ground level, where the gate is a door letting directly onto the tarmac, which is wedged behind the terminal building and about three levels of roads leading into the parking garage. This is the first indication that things are a little different. At time, the door opens and you are guided by airport staff to walk across the tarmac to steps into the plane. (I don’t remember that those steps had a truck underneath them either.)
You board the plane and get seated. It’s comfortable. The plane pulls back from the terminal and bumps along between buildings and larger planes for quite some time. Eventually you reach the runway and take off.
The flight takes a little over an hour. Approaching YAM, the plane descends, lines up on the runway, and then you are down.
You pull up to the terminal and disembark down steps, but now the plane looks big. Sault Ste Marie Airport has one storey, three gates, no jetways, one main room in the terminal, and parking mere metres from the door. There is a baggage conveyor, a snack bar, and a car rental stand (my sister used to run the car rental stand). You can take a taxi into town if no-one is meeting you. There are no buses.
Sault Ste Marie airport has two airlines from the south: Air Canada to YYZ, and Porter Airlines to YTZ (the Island airport in downtown Toronto). Another airline, Bearskin, calls there, serving places across the north of Ontario. And there are charter flights to destinations in the south.
*Why did Canada get all the crappy airport codes? (YYZ? Really? You couldn’t have called it TOR?)
Because Rush needed a title for their best-known instrumental! 
For that matter, they have a classic tune called “By-Tor and the Snow Dog”. The live version is much better than the original.
That is great. I had no idea there were 12 or so airports in what is now Metro Detroit back in the 30s-50s. The whole idea of “Uncle Ed retired and got bored so he built an airport in the cornfields” just seems so foreign to today’s standards
They must have *really *wanted to make it difficult for the US to know their flight plans in the lead-up to the invasion.
I’ve often wondered that. Locally, our airport is YQL, Lethbridge, Alberta. Scheduled service occurs daily to Calgary and Edmonton, but nowhere else.
YQL has two gates. Gate 1 is generally used for departures, Gate 2 is generally used for arrivals. Large commercial aircraft don’t use this airport; so there is no need for jetways–you just walk out across the ramp and get on the plane–typically, a Beechcraft 1900D, if you’re flying Air Canada to Calgary; and the stairs are in the aircraft door. Frequent travellers get known–on at least one occasion, I was greeted by name by the Air Canada check-in attendant, and by the security guard at the security checkpoint. Other than that, YQL has a couple of rental car counters, some vending machines for food and drinks, and a washroom. You could conceiveably pull up to the curb in a taxi while your flight is loading, and still make your flight; the place is that small.
If you’re including GA airports, I flew into this one in my Tiger just to say I’d done it…
Alton Bay Ice Runway
For Airports with Commercial service I always liked flying into Bar Harbor, Maine (BHB) because you can walk from the terminal to a lobster pound right on the ocean and have an ultra fresh lobster roll.
