The Huntsville airport should obviously be an Intergalactic Airport.
It has 19 non-stop connections outside of the state, all to other state-based airports. Perhaps leaving the cornfields make it seem so international.
You all forgot Rex Ingram, he didn’t speak with a British accent either.
Oh, stop groveling!
The Des Moines airport has an International Cargo Terminal. That is why it is an International Airport.
It also made it the largest drug distribution point in the Midwest. Take that, Chicago. 
If I know Chicago, they’ll take that as a* challenge. *
Tut, tut, sounds loike you’re in a spot o’ bother. Just you sit down, pet, and I’ll boil the kettle. A nice cuppa, a digestive biscuit, and Bob’s yer uncle! Roight as rain!
True, but at the Birmingham AL airport the voice is that of Morgan Freeman.
I dated a British guy for several years. I can ignore those accents just fine.
Des Moines does have customs and immigration services available (although no scheduled international passenger flights), but “international” is just branding and has no definition other than what the operator of the airport says.
Did you miss the part where the OP is sitting in an airport in the middle of Iowa, listening to a voice he can’t escape?
Great. Now I’m going to hear this whenever Des Moines is mentioned. And now Des Moines is starting to look funny to me…Des Moines…Des Moines…
No, not God, the Voice of God. Alan Rickman.
The English language audio guide on the Topless Bus tour of Tallinn, in Estonia, is done by a South African woman, which was amusing. Not generally the first English accent I’d have used.
I guess we cannot have a thread complaining about English (or a variety of English) without a slew of misspellings.
I dunno 'bout any Englishmen living in Des Moines, but I know one famous Des Moines native who lives in England : Bill Bryson. My favo[del]u[/del]rite humo[del]u[/del]r author, who made this important observation about the city :
“I’m from Des Moines.
Somebody had to be.”
As for the OP, I emphathize with your troubles…Not that I give a damn about the accent coming from the speakers in the ceiling…I just feel sorry for you that you’re in Iowa. 
A state whose highest point is marked by a public park, with such wonderful scenery
I know. It’s like how almost any time someone complains about a burnt English muffin, they use English words, even when they aren’t from England. So ironic.
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Hey, SSR, next time you’re up the mountain, stop in and say HI to my kin.
Indeed:
“Don’t lose any of that stuff. That’s concentrated evil. One drop of that could turn you all into hermit crabs.”
Airport management, in the belief that a British accent makes the place seem ever so cosmopolitan and cultured, heightening the illusion of an international airport.
The same thinking underlies overuse of Brit accents in advertising. This isn’t a sleazy piece of crap we’re selling, because Sir Rodney is hawking it.
What would be really bizarre is if the Des Moines Disembodied Voice had a florid Southern accent. :smack:
My condolences.