Smallest airport you've ever flown into?
Nov 22, 2011, 1:35 pm
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Mine's probably SFJ. The runway length combined with the size of the plane I was on meant we were over water until seconds before landing.
Nov 22, 2011, 1:44 pm
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KLXY, but I've flown out of some tiny ones. I almost got a chance at a grass field in a two seater 'crop duster' but that fell through some decade ago.
Nov 23, 2011, 10:07 am
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The one that felt the smallest to me was Galway. I've flown to smaller airports I think, but I guess I expect island airports to be small, but I wasn't expecting Galway in Ireland to be quite as small as it was!
Nov 23, 2011, 8:56 pm
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VIS. Flew out of there last month. I was the only paid passenger, the other was an employee. Over to LAX and was really bumpy. The waiting area was smaller than my living room and the TSA was in the back somewhere, until the plane was about to land, then they came out to scan. Of course, I was randomly selected for enhanced screening. They went thru my luggage, lol. I was the only passenger! Anyways, it was a funny experience.
Nov 23, 2011, 11:43 pm
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Meigs Field/Chicago
I haven't read the entire thread, but I searched it.
Hasn't anyone mentioned Meigs Field on Chicago's lakefront? Closed now, of course, but had scheduled service in the days of regulation.
Hasn't anyone mentioned Meigs Field on Chicago's lakefront? Closed now, of course, but had scheduled service in the days of regulation.
Nov 24, 2011, 12:03 am
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With a commercial plane, the smalest by far was some place between Fairbanks and Whitehorse. It's about 15 years ago now, so I can't remember the name of the airport, but we stopped there to drop off mail or something like that. The "terminal" was just a small cabin and I don't think there was a tower or even ground staff there.
Nov 24, 2011, 11:23 am
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Nov 25, 2011, 12:20 am
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LNO - Leonora Western Australia.
Population about 400, most flights are mining fly in fly out workers, and Royal Flying Doctor. Every now and then a plane has to do a fly by of the runway to scare the kangaroos off it before they can land.
The local butcher sells the airline tickets and operates the airport, he closes the butchers shop a couple of times a day to go out and check people in.
Note the first officer standing on a stepladder to re-fuel the plane
Note the first office (a different one - maybe) standing on a luggage trolley to unload luggage
Just a general shot of the landscape (that's a mine dump in the background)
Population about 400, most flights are mining fly in fly out workers, and Royal Flying Doctor. Every now and then a plane has to do a fly by of the runway to scare the kangaroos off it before they can land.
The local butcher sells the airline tickets and operates the airport, he closes the butchers shop a couple of times a day to go out and check people in.
Note the first officer standing on a stepladder to re-fuel the plane
Note the first office (a different one - maybe) standing on a luggage trolley to unload luggage
Just a general shot of the landscape (that's a mine dump in the background)
Nov 25, 2011, 7:20 pm
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Also Ovalau in Fiji was very small, plane to Suva took 6 people and lasted 12 minutes, first time I've ever been weighed rather than the bags. Flying back it rained so hard we had to descend to 100m above water so the pilot could see. Quite an experience but kind of lost it humour when the week after the exact same flight crashed and killed 4 people.
Nov 25, 2011, 10:07 pm
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