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Might as well do a follow up since we won't be flying anywhere new anytime soon.
https://www.dailychess.com/forum/general/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to-pt3.172929
Belfast international
Belfast City
London Heathrow
London city
Gatwick
Stansted
Luton
Liverpoo
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Mallorca
Madrid
Amsterdam
Cologne
Dublin
Chicago
Denver
Dallas
Miami
JFK
Atlanta
Lima
Bogotá
Cartagena
Kuwait
Mumbai
Malaga
Rome Ciampino
Paris Beauvais
Barcelona
Ponta Delgada, Azores
Lisbon
Milan Bergamo
Budapest
Marrakesh Menara
Beijing Capital International
Bangkok Suvarnabhumi
Bangkok Don Mueang
Chiang Mai
Hanoi
Da Nang
Kuala Lumpur
Yangon
Toronto
Faro
Nice
Athens
Crete
Fuerteventura
Naples
Istanbul Atatürk
Addis Ababa Bole
Dubai
King Khaled International Airport (Riyadh) Just a few hours stopover
Manila
Cebu
Singapore
57 now.
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@Trev33, I bet a lot of those have cool architecture.
Not so many for me:
Mankato Regional (Minnesota)
Dallas/Fort Worth
Tampa
Atlanta
Charlotte
Newark
Trenton-Mercer Regional (NJ)
McCarran (Vegas)
Phoenix
O'Hare (Chicago)
LAX (Los Angeles)
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@caesar-salad saidI get impressed by the simple things, like in Mumbai they have an area they've turned into a mini forest, nice to sit among the trees for a while. Just outside Singapore airport there's a shopping center with a nice man made water fall with seating round it to relax and watch the water.
@Trev33, I bet a lot of those have cool architecture.
Not so many for me:
Mankato Regional (Minnesota)
Dallas/Fort Worth
Tampa
Atlanta
Charlotte
Newark
Trenton-Mercer Regional (NJ)
McCarran (Vegas)
Phoenix
O'Hare (Chicago)
LAX (Los Angeles)
@Trev33
UK/Ire
Heathrow
Gatwick
Stanstead
Luton
Southampton
Bristol
Manchester
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Leeds/Bradford
Penzance
Exeter
Tresco
Jersey
Guernsey
Dublin
Belfast
Shannon
Galway
Nordics
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Oslo
Russia
Moscow
St Petersburg
Novosibirsk
Poland
Warsaw
Kraków
Katowice
Czech R.
Prague
Hungary
Budapest
Holland
Amsterdam
Belgium
Brussels
France
Paris CDG
Paris Orly
Nice
Lyon
Marseille
Strasbourg
Monaco (Monte Carlo)
Spain
Madrid
Valencia
Barcelona
Malaga
Mahon (Menorca)
Palma (Mallorca)
Lanzarote
Gibraltar
Portugal
Lisbon
Greece
Chania (Crete)
Corfu
Mykonos
Santorini
Paphos (Cyprus)
Athens
Preveza (Lefkada)
Germany
Berlin
Stuttgart
Hamburg
Frankfurt
Austria
Vienna
Switzerland
Geneva
Interlaken
Italy
Milan Linate
Milan Malpensa
Rome
Brindisi
Naples
Egypt
Sharm el Sheik
Cairo
Dubai
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
Jeddah
Riyadh
Africa
Bazarutu Island (Mozambique)
Zambia (Lusaka)
Cape Town
Johannesburg
Indian Ocean
Mauritius
Male/Maldives
USA
Chicago
Indianapolis
Minneapolis
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Miami
New York - Newark
New York - JFK
Phoenix
88, a few more since the last outing.
Probably won’t be many more for me.
@Trev33
Too many for me to recall, but I will mention the worse I've ever been to: Stansted. Tatty, run down, and too small for the volume of traffic. I (and the rest of the passengers on my flight) waited longer for the luggage than we had been in the air.
My favourite airport: Bern. Show up 15 minutes before departure, get a croissant and a hot cocoa, sail through security in 2 minutes. Walk onto the tarmac to board your plane. Three gates, one runway, cute little propeller-Bombardiers with single seat to the left of the aisle and double seats to the right, soar over the Alps as you climb to cruise altitude.
@moonbus
I pretty much loathe all airports, flying Itself and most other passengers to be brutally honest. It’s a miserable experience unless one goes business class which makes it almost tolerable.
The worst airports I’ve been through are;
Paris CDG for its seemingly strategic approach to misinformation
Geneva for its utterly hopeless baggage reclaim service (French managed no doubt)
Sharm el Shiek (prior to the bomb on the Russian flight) for its headless chicken approach to absolutely everything
Riyadh for its terrifying security
I can’t remember Stanstead except arriving late and redirected from somewhere in Poland and all the Polish passengers clapping as we touched down.
Edit; favourite is Exeter. Smashing little airport.
@divegeester
In my experience, the French approach to strategic misinformation applies to the whole road network, not just to CDG airport. In every town, there are signs directing you to the cemetery, WWI monument, WWII monument, military cemetery, Veterans' Association meeting hall, veterinarian's office, some farm or other, garbage depot, Lyon, and the next village — this is duplicated across the second largest country in western Europe (after Ukraine), so if you don't want to go to Lyon and don't have Michelin maps listing the entire string of next villages continuously, you might as well be in a frigging fjord. (I think is was implemented to confuse the German army.)
Whereas, road signing in England is a treat: THE MIDLANDS, or THE NORTH. Now that's useful information! I can get oriented.
@moonbus saidI’ve not driven in France (other than in my early twenties in the south) so haven’t taken much notice of the roads other than the never ending taxi journey from CDG to the city.
@divegeester
In my experience, the French approach to strategic misinformation applies to the whole road network, not just to CDG airport. In every town, there are signs directing you to the cemetery, WWI monument, WWII monument, military cemetery, Veterans' Association meeting hall, veterinarian's office, some farm or other, garbage depot, Lyon, and the next village — this ...[text shortened]... n England is a treat: THE MIDLANDS, or THE NORTH. Now that's useful information! I can get oriented.
America is another country with what is for me bizarre road signage. Street and road names/numbers everywhere with an assumption that the traveler knows which direction the next town is.
I got dangerously lost in Florida trying to navigate the grid system and ended up being rescued by a burley police woman in an unfeasibly large car and who was armed to the teeth in virtually every piece of personal weaponry I’ve seen.
I said lamely “hi I’m English and I’m lost”...
She smirked then smiled and drawled “yeah”...
It was a nice experience.
@moonbus saidSimilarly way too many airports to list due to Liverpool away games with trips to minor airports all over Europe (sorry planet, but went overland to Madrid).
@divegeester
In my experience, the French approach to strategic misinformation applies to the whole road network, not just to CDG airport. In every town, there are signs directing you to the cemetery, WWI monument, WWII monument, military cemetery, Veterans' Association meeting hall, veterinarian's office, some farm or other, garbage depot, Lyon, and the next village — this ...[text shortened]... n England is a treat: THE MIDLANDS, or THE NORTH. Now that's useful information! I can get oriented.
Most interesting though was when Air India were on strike, but said they could still get us home from Trivandrum via two minor changes in the Middle East. Western couple with back packs were fish out of water, strange.
To comment on your remark about French signage Lyon is exactly the place you want to go in my experience. Turn off for St Etienne if speeding down east side autoroutes (gotta like the French roads for big open autoroutes for really seeing what car can do). Place I had to meet friend at airport for Euros. Lyon is clearly the only place you need on the signs. Otherwise from football perspective Marseilles, but that's just keep going til you run out of country.
Signage that just says The North is not good. Okay the Midlands just has Birmingham but learn a few cities in the north people. Guess percentage of the country that is North of Watford Gap it will alarm you. Heading for Leeds will not get you to Liverpool.
Liverpool John Lennon Airport has the sign "Above us only sky". Even if it isn't welcoming you home you have to like that!
@trev33 saidAnywhere recently? I might want to steer clear of you!
Might as well do a follow up since we won't be flying anywhere new anytime soon.
https://www.dailychess.com/forum/general/how-many-airports-have-you-been-to-pt3.172929
Belfast international
Belfast City
London Heathrow
London city
Gatwick
Stansted
Luton
Liverpoo
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Mallorca
Madrid
Amsterdam
Cologne
Dublin
Chicago
Denver
Dallas
Miami
JFK ...[text shortened]... Khaled International Airport (Riyadh) Just a few hours stopover
Manila
Cebu
Singapore
57 now.
-VR
@trev33 saidMy list is far shorter than yours, but landing at Nagasaki airport was an interesting experience. (The runway appears at the very last second and I was convinced, much to my wife's amusement, that we were going to land in the ocean).
I get impressed by the simple things, like in Mumbai they have an area they've turned into a mini forest, nice to sit among the trees for a while. Just outside Singapore airport there's a shopping center with a nice man made water fall with seating round it to relax and watch the water.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidShe was probably thinking and I actually married this nit!!! 😉
My list is far shorter than yours, but landing at Nagasaki airport was an interesting experience. (The runway appears at the very last second and I was convinced, much to my wife's amusement, that we were going to land in the ocean).
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@ghost-of-a-duke saidHow was Japan? Mate of mine went a couple of years ago and loved it, also spent a fortune. Do they have any ww2 museums?
My list is far shorter than yours, but landing at Nagasaki airport was an interesting experience. (The runway appears at the very last second and I was convinced, much to my wife's amusement, that we were going to land in the ocean).
You remind me of an airport I missed from the list, was just a stopover on the way to Colombia but had a similar feeling flying into Panama, tall buildings and sea, where's the run way? 😲 Seeing the Panama canal overhead was pretty cool though. The flight had been delayed which left about 30 minutes before the next flight but knew they'd delay it to get all the luggage moved across, same airline under one booking, no one told an old Colombian woman though who as soon as the plane hit the ground was off her chair running down aisle, had to be told to sit down and stop being so stupid (I might have added that part), never in my life have I seen anything like it. What was her plan, jump off before the plane stopped? I thought at the time, I bet she's getting the same flight as me next and as I walked casually to the next gate there she was with her son who had also been dragged out of his chair to run down the aisle.