Do you keep track of your airports?
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Do you keep track of your airports?
Anyone besides me keep a list of the airports you've traveled through?
At some point (probably around the time I retired and had time on my hands) I decided to make a list of all the airports I’ve traversed as a passenger. Since I didn’t travel that much in my younger days, I was able to recreate a historical list and since then I’ve added to it.
The list includes all 6 flyable continents (I have been to Antarctica, but by ship), and almost all major U.S. airports. (Of the top 20 US busiest, I’ve missed just 3 - Las Vegas, SEATAC, and Orlando).
I included (though maybe I shouldn’t) several where the plane stopped but I didn’t deplane - (Baton Rouge, Cleveland, Monrovia, Maui, Oakland, Pueblo CO).
I didn’t include recreational flights that weren’t based on an actual airport property (Queenstown NZ, Talkeetna AK, Homer AK)
The smallest airport? Kruger National Park, South Africa. The terminal was about the size of my living room.
My current total is 109 and I will add 2 more (Athens, Omaha) this year.
At some point (probably around the time I retired and had time on my hands) I decided to make a list of all the airports I’ve traversed as a passenger. Since I didn’t travel that much in my younger days, I was able to recreate a historical list and since then I’ve added to it.
The list includes all 6 flyable continents (I have been to Antarctica, but by ship), and almost all major U.S. airports. (Of the top 20 US busiest, I’ve missed just 3 - Las Vegas, SEATAC, and Orlando).
I included (though maybe I shouldn’t) several where the plane stopped but I didn’t deplane - (Baton Rouge, Cleveland, Monrovia, Maui, Oakland, Pueblo CO).
I didn’t include recreational flights that weren’t based on an actual airport property (Queenstown NZ, Talkeetna AK, Homer AK)
The smallest airport? Kruger National Park, South Africa. The terminal was about the size of my living room.
My current total is 109 and I will add 2 more (Athens, Omaha) this year.
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I think I'm at 54, but might be missing some.
Edit: Forgot Hawai'i. And Japan. At least 60 then. Can't remember how many airports in Hawai'i thought.
Edit: Forgot Hawai'i. And Japan. At least 60 then. Can't remember how many airports in Hawai'i thought.
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There are multiple threads on this topic.
If you search "most airports visited" you find, among them:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...-you-been.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...e-visited.html
From 2004 - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...s-visited.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...orts-year.html
If you search "most airports visited" you find, among them:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...-you-been.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...e-visited.html
From 2004 - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...s-visited.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...orts-year.html
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On www.gcmap.com you can create a map of all routes and airports you've flown through, and then it tells you the number of miles you've traveled.
So input all your flights in this format: "Xxx-yyy-xxx-zzz-yyy" and then press "map". Note this won't work if you happen to arrive at one airport and then depart at another, in which case you should enter your queries separately.
So input all your flights in this format: "Xxx-yyy-xxx-zzz-yyy" and then press "map". Note this won't work if you happen to arrive at one airport and then depart at another, in which case you should enter your queries separately.
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FlightMemory yields similar results. My FM data is complete 2000-2017, somewhat spotty before that. 87 airports. They'll sell you a wall map of your traveled routes also.
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FlightMemory is, however, pretty terrible website-wise and seems to exist mostly to sell you posters. If posters don't interest you, FlightRadar24 has a better service called My FlightRadar24 (which used to be flightdiary): http://my.flightradar24.com
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On www.gcmap.com you can create a map of all routes and airports you've flown through, and then it tells you the number of miles you've traveled.
So input all your flights in this format: "Xxx-yyy-xxx-zzz-yyy" and then press "map". Note this won't work if you happen to arrive at one airport and then depart at another, in which case you should enter your queries separately.
So input all your flights in this format: "Xxx-yyy-xxx-zzz-yyy" and then press "map". Note this won't work if you happen to arrive at one airport and then depart at another, in which case you should enter your queries separately.
JFK-DXB-JFK,LGA-RDG-LGA and it will map correctly,
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Only to the extent that I will actively avoid certain ones. DEN for example..I will fly to COS when I can just to avoid DEN, even if I have business in Denver. It's a 45 minute drive from Co Springs to Denver..but then it's about the same from DEN to downtown anyway. DEN shouldn't be properly called Denver Airport, not being in Denver after all.
I avoid MCO like the plague..because with all those kids and families running around I feel like I might actually catch the plague. The Kettle level at MCO is off the charts. The musical chairs with seating, the hundreds of family pre-boards per flight, the screaming babies. I fly to TPA and drive.
I also favor secondary airports whenever possible. MDW instead of ORD, SNA or BUR instead of LAX. The exception is LGW...I would rather be at LHR! LGW is a high pressure filth-hole.
I avoid MCO like the plague..because with all those kids and families running around I feel like I might actually catch the plague. The Kettle level at MCO is off the charts. The musical chairs with seating, the hundreds of family pre-boards per flight, the screaming babies. I fly to TPA and drive.
I also favor secondary airports whenever possible. MDW instead of ORD, SNA or BUR instead of LAX. The exception is LGW...I would rather be at LHR! LGW is a high pressure filth-hole.
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FlightMemory is, however, pretty terrible website-wise and seems to exist mostly to sell you posters. If posters don't interest you, FlightRadar24 has a better service called My FlightRadar24 (which used to be flightdiary): http://my.flightradar24.com
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I have my own Excel spreadsheet (which I laboriously input from a paper log about 6 years ago, but even then the quantity was ~2100)