Smallest airport you've ever flown into?
Sep 12, 2014, 9:01 am
#916
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Commercial airport - MAJ, Majuro, Marshall Islands. Single runway for a 737, no taxiway. Small house for a terminal. Pretty much the same for Ponepae, PNI and KSA, Kosrae.
Sep 12, 2014, 9:28 am
#917
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LZR - Lizard Island Australia - Not sure there is a terminal
SAB - a classic
LYB: Probably my favorite. The airplane needs to cross the road (yes a public road) to get from the runway to the terminal. The passenger waiting area is a carport and just over it there is a sign (hand painted) that reads Terminal A Gate #1.
SAB - a classic
LYB: Probably my favorite. The airplane needs to cross the road (yes a public road) to get from the runway to the terminal. The passenger waiting area is a carport and just over it there is a sign (hand painted) that reads Terminal A Gate #1.
Sep 12, 2014, 9:57 am
#919
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Not sure of the rank order, but smallest airports would have to be:
UCA, ITH, BOB, MOZ, and MHK. I was surprised at how big GJT, EUG, and TVC are. Thought they'd be smaller.
Sep 12, 2014, 2:34 pm
#921
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By "old" Ithaca, do you mean the pre-1956 airport on the west side of Cayuga Lake? Or just the old terminal at the current airport?
Originally Posted by AceRider
Lanai City, HI
OLD Ithaca, NY
OLD Ithaca, NY
Sep 12, 2014, 9:40 pm
#922
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: San Jose, CA U.S.A.
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Out of country - the "air strip" at Placencia, Belize is just a little shack. My hotel forgot to send a cab so the guy at the shack used his cell phone to call them. I sat on the hot tarmac until I was collected. I think the plane was a Cessna Caravan.
In the US, I was at Rochester, MN - forgot the airline (perhaps NW) I had to "ring the bell on the counter" to get someone to come and take my luggage and give me my boarding pass. That was the day we all sat in the plane to wait out the thunder storm passing through. Quite an "enlightening" day that was.
In the US, I was at Rochester, MN - forgot the airline (perhaps NW) I had to "ring the bell on the counter" to get someone to come and take my luggage and give me my boarding pass. That was the day we all sat in the plane to wait out the thunder storm passing through. Quite an "enlightening" day that was.
Sep 14, 2014, 4:07 pm
#927
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Silver City (SVC), El Centro/Imperial (IPL), and West Yellowstone (WYS) for me. SVC doesn't even have TSA, you just sign a sheet saying you don't have any illegal items in your bags and you're off.
Sep 15, 2014, 8:52 pm
#929
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MRY (Monterey) & TEX (Telluride) which are usually on the same trip connected by DEN until UA axed MRY-DEN this summer.
Also in college SBA (Santa Barbara).
Non-commercial I would then also add SNS (Salinas, CA) as well as our landing strip on the ranch outside of Bend, OR.
Also in college SBA (Santa Barbara).
Non-commercial I would then also add SNS (Salinas, CA) as well as our landing strip on the ranch outside of Bend, OR.
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Sep 15, 2014, 10:33 pm
#930
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Nothing compared to most of y'all, but the old terminal at VPS was pretty bad. When the biggest selling points for the new terminal (finally built in 2004 after some delays in 2001) end up being that not only are there now public restrooms airside instead of having to re-clear security if you suddenly had to pee and the a chance to buy coffee, soda, and snacks that did not come from a vending machine (if you were lucky and they weren't all broken) it's kind of a low bar. And since they rather gave up all preventative maintenance when the new terminal plan was finalized somewhere around 1997, you could kind of check and see where the ceiling mold was now spreading in a different direction every time you went in there. Its one bright spot was the semi-secret 30 minute free parking lot literally three steps out the door from baggage claim, but we lost that in post-9/11 security revisions. Dang, I miss that parking lot.
I'm told that Panama City, FL was even smaller but I never flew out of there before they built the new terminal that looks like every Florida middle school built in the 1990s and it became ECP.
I'm told that Panama City, FL was even smaller but I never flew out of there before they built the new terminal that looks like every Florida middle school built in the 1990s and it became ECP.