Smallest airport you've ever flown into?
Apr 19, 2017, 7:37 am
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Feb 14, 2019, 7:27 pm
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A new one for me this week, Columbus, GA (CSG). Just three flights on DL from ATL a day. There's a gate with a jetway and then downstairs a ground level gate to board the CRJ-200. However, the ground level gate lacks a computer or scanner so someone goes upstairs to the main gate, brings down a manifest and each passenger gives their name as they board. Their name is then checked off on the list and they're allowed to board. Quite the system.
Feb 15, 2019, 8:02 pm
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A new one for me this week, Columbus, GA (CSG). Just three flights on DL from ATL a day. There's a gate with a jetway and then downstairs a ground level gate to board the CRJ-200. However, the ground level gate lacks a computer or scanner so someone goes upstairs to the main gate, brings down a manifest and each passenger gives their name as they board. Their name is then checked off on the list and they're allowed to board. Quite the system.
Feb 15, 2019, 8:11 pm
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Depending how we’re defining regularly scheduled service? Probably YMDV (Mount Davies, APY lands South Australia). Has a weekly/twice weekly milk run in a Cessna caravan, tickets were $300 a go when I did it
Feb 15, 2019, 10:38 pm
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What we're probably looking at is "What is the smallest airport" because Flyertalkers are everywhere. Candidates include heliports. Those are often just a concrete pad. Another candidate is the small airstrip without commercial service. Yet another candidate is the very small airport with commercial service. Barra Airport in Scotland, which uses the beach as a runway, may be a strong candidate. A little larger are airfields like Alderney, Channel Islands. In the US, airports like MHK Manhattan, Kansas are small but there are smaller ones with airline service.
In terms of area, LCY London City is small but it's busy.
In terms of area, LCY London City is small but it's busy.
Feb 18, 2019, 2:44 pm
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Feb 18, 2019, 3:20 pm
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I’ve flown in and out of CSG as well. Memory is not serving me well as to which airport it was where the GA had to literally push the uneccessary jet bridge into position. It might have been CSG. GNV’s gate area is very small. Four gates, only two or three are actually used I believe, and the bronze gator is awesome. AGS is the biggest small airport I’ve ever been in. It must be a ghost town except for those two weeks in April.
Feb 18, 2019, 3:38 pm
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Scheduling didn't work to fly into SAF, alas. We did pick up & drop off a friend there recently though:
Pictures here.
Pictures here.
SAF Baggage Claim
As of last week, my wife has now flown both in AND out of SAF. Lucky girl! Her bag didn't make the inbound flight so UA sent it on the much later flight and she picked it up the next day. There's apparently an extremely hot space heater in the baggage storage are there; not only was her suitcase's shell distorted, but some herb capsules inside it were melted.
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Feb 19, 2019, 6:49 am
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Feb 21, 2019, 3:06 pm
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I’ve flown in and out of CSG as well. Memory is not serving me well as to which airport it was where the GA had to literally push the uneccessary jet bridge into position. It might have been CSG. GNV’s gate area is very small. Four gates, only two or three are actually used I believe, and the bronze gator is awesome. AGS is the biggest small airport I’ve ever been in. It must be a ghost town except for those two weeks in April.
Feb 22, 2019, 7:51 am
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In the US, it was the original LYH terminal back in the early 1990's. There were three "gates" but it was one doorway and you walked to one of three parking pads. Baggage was delivered to a concrete "stand" right outside the terminal. Don't remember there being any amenities other than bathrooms and vending machines inside.
Internationally, it has to be JUH (Chizhou Jiuhaushan Airport) in Anhui Province China. It was a buisness trip and I might have been the first foreigner through there based on the looks I got. Not too many flights a day at the time since it had been newly opened.
Internationally, it has to be JUH (Chizhou Jiuhaushan Airport) in Anhui Province China. It was a buisness trip and I might have been the first foreigner through there based on the looks I got. Not too many flights a day at the time since it had been newly opened.