Smallest airport you've ever flown into?
Oct 18, 2016, 11:23 pm
#1082
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May need to toss Hua Hin HHQ in the running for the running of the biggest airport with the smallest operation. 2 weekly flights, built to handle dozen or so a day.
Oct 19, 2016, 12:34 pm
#1084
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Palm Beach/ New England
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Rurrenbaque, Bolivia. Didn't have paved runways until 2010 and the only road to the airport is frequently closed by protesters. Luckily my flights weren't affected but I was worried but the road opened two days before I was scheduled to fly there.
Terminal is just a shack and baggage drop & claim was a little section marked with paint.
Terminal is just a shack and baggage drop & claim was a little section marked with paint.
SQV would be my second smallest. Only had commercial service for a short period in the 1990s. It's neighbor CLM had service for much longer, but as of now there is no scheduled service to the whole Olympic region.
Oct 20, 2016, 4:04 pm
#1087
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If we're talking anything with a runway I've used several private airstrips on the land of private residences/businesses.
Have used plenty of airports with no commercial service.
Have used plenty of airports with no commercial service.
Oct 20, 2016, 8:26 pm
#1089
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: FLL/BCT
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TTN. Best part was the flight info board at the gate (if you can call it that). It was literally a sign that said Gate 2 and had a half piece of paper (torn not cut from the other half) under it with "Cleveland" written on it.
I ended up there under bizarre circumstances returning from LHR, haven't returned, but hope they invested in a proper flight info board.
I ended up there under bizarre circumstances returning from LHR, haven't returned, but hope they invested in a proper flight info board.
Oct 21, 2016, 12:42 pm
#1091
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Greenville, Mississippi. About 15 years ago I was on a flight was from Shreveport to Memphis, with a stop in Greenville. I was the only one on the plane, and when we stopped in Greenville I had to bang on the pilot's door to get them to open the door to deplane. The pilot asked me if I were sure, since this was really a mail run and no one ever got off there. He then had to call the terminal - as I use that term loosely - to get them to open the door.
Oct 21, 2016, 4:35 pm
#1092
Join Date: Sep 2015
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Airport: GJT - Grand Junction, Colorado (220k passengers last year) followed by ZQW - Zweibrücken, Saarland Germany (250k passengers the year I used it; Commercial services shut down in 2014).
Airfields: A dust strip somewhere in South Africa. Very cool flight on the Cessna Grand Caravan.
Airfields: A dust strip somewhere in South Africa. Very cool flight on the Cessna Grand Caravan.
Oct 21, 2016, 5:58 pm
#1093
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I can claim three USAF flights at LCK when it was still Lockbourne AFB: two orientation flights during ROTC summer camp, and an unscheduled landing en route back to ITH from an ROTC detachment visit to SZL (Whiteman AFB MO) ... our T-29 (military version of the Convair 240) lost oil pressure in one engine so the pilots had to shut it down and feather the prop ... I may still have a photo of that somewhere; if I can lay hand on it, I'll take a pic with my phone and post it here
Nov 4, 2016, 4:41 pm
#1094
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I finally have an appropriate post for this thread. My KL flight from TXL last week couldn't land in AMS and got diverted to GRQ (Gronigin, NL). Only one or two commercial flights a day.