Châteauroux airport - What’s special about it?
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#47
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Regarding airports (far) outside the city; Narita is my honourable mention.
By far the most obscure, being that for many years it was the “official” international airport for Tokyo.
70km from Ginza, but hey, the busses that take you to the door of every 5 star hotel help!
I guess it took years to realise this is balking mad, and only recently have we seen operations shift to Haneda.
HKG seems to have tried to follow the Narita model, Kai Tak was literally seconds from the core of the city, but hey, let’s reclaim some land at Chep Lap Kok and build an airport there instead of reclaiming land at Kai Tak which was partially reclaimed land anyway! Luckily Hong Kong isn’t a big as Japan so they couldn’t emulate Narita quite as badly at Chep Lap Kok.
LHR, we have plenty of land but that wouldn’t make sense, let’s divert flights to 3-5 other airports all at opposite ends of the city to make connecting flights impossible for foreigners, great idea!
DEL, they thought the airport is far from the city, so said, let’s move the core of the city closer to the airport! Now let’s build another city more modern and almost as economically important as Delhi itself on the other side of the airport (Gurgaon for those unfamiliar).
By far the most obscure, being that for many years it was the “official” international airport for Tokyo.
70km from Ginza, but hey, the busses that take you to the door of every 5 star hotel help!
I guess it took years to realise this is balking mad, and only recently have we seen operations shift to Haneda.
HKG seems to have tried to follow the Narita model, Kai Tak was literally seconds from the core of the city, but hey, let’s reclaim some land at Chep Lap Kok and build an airport there instead of reclaiming land at Kai Tak which was partially reclaimed land anyway! Luckily Hong Kong isn’t a big as Japan so they couldn’t emulate Narita quite as badly at Chep Lap Kok.
LHR, we have plenty of land but that wouldn’t make sense, let’s divert flights to 3-5 other airports all at opposite ends of the city to make connecting flights impossible for foreigners, great idea!
DEL, they thought the airport is far from the city, so said, let’s move the core of the city closer to the airport! Now let’s build another city more modern and almost as economically important as Delhi itself on the other side of the airport (Gurgaon for those unfamiliar).
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When I was but knee high and growing up in the North (in the 1960's), my dad used to tell me that there was talk about building a new London airport close to where we lived which was incidentally around 14 miles north of Doncaster. I cant tell you how excited I was by that prospect and was convinced I'd end up working there.
I think RAF Finningley, as it was then, was a base for the Vulcan Bomber and they used to fly over our house, rattling the windows, at low level in formation and I still get goose bumps thinking about that now
I think RAF Finningley, as it was then, was a base for the Vulcan Bomber and they used to fly over our house, rattling the windows, at low level in formation and I still get goose bumps thinking about that now
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When I was but knee high and growing up in the North (in the 1960's), my dad used to tell me that there was talk about building a new London airport close to where we lived which was incidentally around 14 miles north of Doncaster. I cant tell you how excited I was by that prospect and was convinced I'd end up working there.
I think RAF Finningley, as it was then, was a base for the Vulcan Bomber and they used to fly over our house, rattling the windows, at low level in formation and I still get goose bumps thinking about that now
I think RAF Finningley, as it was then, was a base for the Vulcan Bomber and they used to fly over our house, rattling the windows, at low level in formation and I still get goose bumps thinking about that now