Mileage Run Discussion - List of Every US Airport

Sorry for this waste of bandwidth. I know I've seen it in the past, but I've searched a bunch and can't seem to find it. I remember seeing in the past a list of all US airports (within 300 miles of each other) ready to be plugged into ITA. Anyone happen to have it handy? Thanks

Google (http://www.google.com/search?q=list+of+all+US+airports&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&)is your friend.

I think that the OP is looking for a list of airports that, with a 300 mile radius, covers most commercial airports, not just a list of all the commercial airports.

I managed to come up with this list this morning. I'm not sure that it is perfect, but it covers most of the country (http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=&RANGE=300mi%40mht%2C+300mi%40phl%0D%0A300mi%40clt% 2C+300mi%40mco%2C+300mi%40bhm%0D%0A300mi%40dtw%0D% 0A300mi%40stl%0D%0A300mi%40geg%0D%0A300mi%40msp%2C +300mi%40iah%2C+300mi%40elp%2C+300mi%40okc%2C+300m i%40las%2C+300mi%40den%0D%0A300mi%40boi%0D%0A300mi %40smf%0D%0A300mi%40jac%0D%0A&PATH-COLOR=red&PATH-UNITS=mi&PATH-MINIMUM=&SPEED-GROUND=&SPEED-UNITS=kts&RANGE-STYLE=best&RANGE-COLOR=navy&MAP-STYLE=) (the Dakotas are a bit thin) pretty well:
mht; phl; clt; mco; bhm; dtw; stl; geg; msp; iah; elp; okc; las; den; boi; smf; jac

I think that the OP is looking for a list of airports that, with a 300 mile radius, covers most commercial airports, not just a list of all the commercial airports.

I managed to come up with this list this morning. I'm not sure that it is perfect, but it covers most of the country (http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=&RANGE=300mi%40mht%2C+300mi%40phl%0D%0A300mi%40clt% 2C+300mi%40mco%2C+300mi%40bhm%0D%0A300mi%40dtw%0D% 0A300mi%40stl%0D%0A300mi%40geg%0D%0A300mi%40msp%2C +300mi%40iah%2C+300mi%40elp%2C+300mi%40okc%2C+300m i%40las%2C+300mi%40den%0D%0A300mi%40boi%0D%0A300mi %40smf%0D%0A300mi%40jac%0D%0A&PATH-COLOR=red&PATH-UNITS=mi&PATH-MINIMUM=&SPEED-GROUND=&SPEED-UNITS=kts&RANGE-STYLE=best&RANGE-COLOR=navy&MAP-STYLE=) (the Dakotas are a bit thin) pretty well:
mht; phl; clt; mco; bhm; dtw; stl; geg; msp; iah; elp; okc; las; den; boi; smf; jac

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for this.

Two more versions that may be of value to somebody ~

sea;sfo;lax;phx;den;iah;dfw;mci;msp;ord;dtw;mem;tp a;atl;was;bos::

geg;slc;rno;las;abq;cos;okc;aus;jan;stl;oma;msp;mk e;cle;tpa;gsp;mdt;mht::

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Is this (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2709491&postcount=16) the post you were looking for?

When you put in a "within X miles" on our site, we only pick a few of the largest airports within that radius, not all airports.

Even if we didn't do that, we only consider a few hundred of the fastest flight options between the origins and destinations, regardless of how many origins and destinations there are. While this might find some interesting routes and prices, it's certainly not a very comprehensive search.

Doing an "everywhere to everywhere" (or even "everywhere to somewhere") search is not something you can do very effectively with our site.

Sorry to bump an old thread, but it looked like the most relevant (albeit tangential) one....we only consider a few hundred of the fastest flight options between the origins and destinations...Have you considered a option that weighs the cost per mile rather than the most direct route and/or cheapest route? For mileage runners, that's a very important metric. For instance, earlier this year I was flying DFW-LAX on US. Rather than a semi-direct route, I was able to fly DFW-BOS-LAX for about 50% more and earn about 3 times as many miles. ITA didn't find that option for me. I had to use "dfw::us+ bos us+" and "lax::us+ bos us+". I only knew to look for BOS because there were dirt cheap prices DFW-BOS and BOS-LAX (which I found with FareCompare's FlyerTalk page).

Another nice feature would be the ability to sort the list of flights by the cost per mile.

We've certainly considered how hard it would be to create a search that maximizes miles/$, or even EQM/$. To really do a good job would be quite a lot of development effort. We've also considered other things we could do to help find mileage runs without such major development.

The unfortunate fact of the matter is that there's little or no money to be made off of mileage run search, so it's hard to justify any investment when we have much bigger projects on our plate.