Airports you have used

[Haywain]

Filton

That's not really an airport though, it's an airfield which is rather different.

 

[===gricer===]

That's not really an airport though, it's an airfield which is rather different.

Concorde took off from this airfield ...

 

[Haywain]

Concorde took off from this airfield ...

Aircraft have to take off from somewhere, otherwise they are not aircraft. That doesn't make Filton an airport; if it did I spent twenty years working at an airport but none of the thousands of people who worked there would claim it was an airport.

 

[===gricer===]

Aircraft have to take off from somewhere, otherwise they are not aircraft. That doesn't make Filton an airport; if it did I spent twenty years working at an airport but none of the thousands of people who worked there would claim it was an airport.

Bristol Filton Airport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Filton_Airport

 

[Stathern Jc]

Gibraltar is interesting at night when landing from the East and sitting by the window in a "Seat A".
You know you are getting low but have no point of reference until suddenly the illuminated rock is right alongside you; and when your brain has just about adjusted to that, a filling station goes past the window!

A couple in the UK I'm unlikely to use again:
Plymouth. Did a flight to & from Heathrow in 1992 in a Dash 7, as part of a visit back to Inverness.
Kinloss. On a foggy night in March 1991 (before Inverness Airport had the runway extension and upgrade), the DanAir flight from Heathrow was diverted, thankfully not to Aberdeen. I only had that happen the once in the year that I commuted weekly.
It may be a moot point as to whether Kinloss counts as an Airport in this discussion, but it was a commercial flight.

 

[Paul AC]

That is quite a list @GRALISTAIR, you clearly have the travel bug!

How many of these have you arrived at on foot rather than by train, tram, bus, taxi car or even bicycle?
Me, Honningsvag - walked from the village, Bodo - walked to and at a later date from the railway station and town, Glasgow - walked from Paisley Gilmour Street.

... and noting @GRALISTAIR 's list...

if we can be pedantic, what's the trigger condition for walking to/from the airport? Distance based, or going outside some defined airport perimeter?

Gibraltar was mentioned: I've caught the scheduled bus from the bus+railway station at Algeciras to La Línea, then walked across the Spain/Gibraltar border, then to Gibraltar airport - it's not really very far, about 800 m. I'd say that counts.

Southampton: on a business trip to the railway works at Eastleigh, I've flown from Manchester to Southampton then walked to Eastleigh works (it's about 2.5 km); then the same in reverse on the way home. That definitely counts.

Podgorica (Montenegro): I've caught a train from Podgorica station to the aptly named "Aerodrom" station (my photo https://steane.com/gallery/picture.php?/7274/category/695), it's then a 1.5 km walk or so.

Ronaldsway airport to Ronaldsway Halt (Isle of Man Steam Railway) - I've walked this, about 600 m, then caught a steam train into Douglas. Does that count? That distance is about the same as Manchester Airport railway station to MAN Terminal 3, but I wouldn't count that....

A separate question I don't have an answer for: where else in the world, other than Ronaldsway, is the normal train service to/from the airport steam worked? (yes, I know it's seasonal)

 

[Hornet]

... and noting @GRALISTAIR 's list...

if we can be pedantic, what's the trigger condition for walking to/from the airport? Distance based, or going outside some defined airport perimeter?

Gibraltar was mentioned: I've caught the scheduled bus from the bus+railway station at Algeciras to La Línea, then walked across the Spain/Gibraltar border, then to Gibraltar airport - it's not really very far, about 800 m. I'd say that counts.

Southampton: on a business trip to the railway works at Eastleigh, I've flown from Manchester to Southampton then walked to Eastleigh works (it's about 2.5 km); then the same in reverse on the way home. That definitely counts.

Podgorica (Montenegro): I've caught a train from Podgorica station to the aptly named "Aerodrom" station (my photo https://steane.com/gallery/picture.php?/7274/category/695), it's then a 1.5 km walk or so.

Ronaldsway airport to Ronaldsway Halt (Isle of Man Steam Railway) - I've walked this, about 600 m, then caught a steam train into Douglas. Does that count? That distance is about the same as Manchester Airport railway station to MAN Terminal 3, but I wouldn't count that....

A separate question I don't have an answer for: where else in the world, other than Ronaldsway, is the normal train service to/from the airport steam worked? (yes, I know it's seasonal)

Many years ago, after a flight from Dublin, walked from East Midlands Airport to Donington Park, watched the British Motorcycle GP, walked back to East Midlands Airport, then got the flight back to Dublin.

Also remember walking from the Falcon's Nest Hotel in Port Erin, on the Isle of Man, in the early hours to catch the early morning flight to London City. That included a quick nap on a bench in Castletown!

Last month I flew to Biarritz and walked to the nearby Hotel. Two days later walked back from the Hotel to Biarritz Airport for my flight back to Stansted.

Have also walked to Hotels outside the Airport Boundary at London City and Bordeaux.

 

[Class73Electro]

OK, So airports I have used. Italic are transfer only.

UK:
Southampton
Guernsey
London Heathrow
London Gatwick
Glasgow
Lee-on-Solent*
London Stansted

*OK thats not really an airport, but did a helicoptor tour over Portsmouth that was fun!

Europe:
Bergen
Dublin
Luqa Intl. (Malta)
Innsbruck - Highly recommended! Fantastic approach
Reykjavik
Frankfurt
Vienna
Barcelona El Prat
Nice Cote d'Azure
Lyon
Stockholm Arlanda
Alicante
Bodø (Norway)
Tromsø
Stokmarknes (Norway)
Athens
Copenhagen
Milan Linate
Oslo
Arrecife (Lanzarote)
Trondheim
Milan Malpensa
Warsaw Chopin
Gdansk Lech Walesa
Genoa City
Paris Orly

US:
New York JFK
Los Angeles International
Las Vegas McCarran

Asia:
Bahrain
Dammam
Dubai

 

[ABB125]

Here's my list, not too many so far but I'm hoping to start travelling more frequently. Numbers in brackets indicate the number of "movements" (arrival or departure) at each airport, italics indicate transfers only (ie: never left the airport).

Heathrow (8); Stansted (3); Birmingham, Bristol (2); Manchester (1)
Gothenburg, Naples, Venice, Barcelona (2); Budapest, Oslo Gardermoen (1)
La Guardia, Toronto, Montreal (2); Newark, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore (1)

Soon to be added to the list are Frankfurt and JFK.

EDIT: I've not yet managed to walk to/from any yet. Well, technically I walked into Venice airport, but only from the last bus stop before the airport in order to avoid the rip off fares! Not sure if that counts... Most of the others have been train/bus, apart from a few UK trips which have been by car

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Lee-on-Solent*


*OK that's not really an airport, but did a helicopter tour over Portsmouth that was fun!

There is actually a busy airfield at Lee... but I'm wondering... was that the same date as me... 08/09/07 in G-LENI...?

 

[Class73Electro]

There is actually a busy airfield at Lee... but I'm wondering... was that the same date as me... 08/09/07 in G-LENI...?

This was in 2017 with G-HANY

 

[Peter Mugridge]

This was in 2017 with G-HANY

Ah.... that's quite some time difference between us there!

 

[Iskra]

UK: Manchester, Doncaster, Leeds-Bradford, Liverpool, Glasgow, London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Belfast, RAF Linton On Ouse, RAF Church Fenton, RAF Benson, RAF Wittering, RAF Cottesmore, Sherburn in Elmet aerodrome.
US: New York JFK, Las Vegas, Orlando Intl, Orlando Sanford, Miami, San Francisco, Chicago
Canada: Calgary
Iceland: Keflavik, Bakki airport, Vestmannaeyjar Airport
Italy: Milan Malpensa, Milan Linate, Milan Bergamo, Verona, Bologna, Rome Ciampino, Rome Fiumicino, Naples, Lamezia Terme, Catania
Malta: Malta International
Greece: Corfu
Germany: Dusselforf
Sweden: Stockholm Arlanda
Russia: St Petersburg
Ukraine: Kyiv Boryspil
Cyprus: Larnaka
Ireland: Dublin
Netherlands: Amsterdam
Portugal: Porto
Spain: several as a child on family holidays but I can't remember which ones

 

[camflyer]

77 I think but there maybe some European ones I have forgotten about. I did a lot of flying with work in the early 2000s in the days before Teams or Zoom meetings. To think you used to have to fly to another country for a 1 hour meeting.

Airport	Country
Brussels	Belgium
Phnom Penh	Cambodia
Siem Reap	Cambodia
Larnaka	Cyprus
Prague	Czech Republic
Copenhagen	Denmark
Tallinn	Estonia
Turku	Finland
Lyon	France
Nice	France
Berlin Schönefeld	Germany
Tegel	Germany
Düsseldorf	Germany
Frankfurt	Germany
Hamburg	Germany
Munich	Germany
Stuttgart	Germany
Hong Kong	Hong Kong
Budapest	Hungary
Bengaluru	India
Delhi	India
Kochi	India
Mumbai	India
Milan Malpensa	Italy
Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia
Langkawi	Malaysia
Penang	Malaysia
Malta	Malta
Amsterdam	Netherlands
Eindhoven	Netherlands
Maastricht	Netherlands
Rotterdam	Netherlands
Oslo Torp	Norway
Krakow	Poland
Warsaw	Poland
Lisbon	Portugal
Porto	Portugal
Doha	Qatar
Dublin	Republic of Ireland
Singapore	Singapore
Palma de Mallorca	Spain
Tenerife South	Spain
Alicante	Spain
Barcelona	Spain
Gran Canaria	Spain
Lanzarote	Spain
Madrid	Spain
Málaga	Spain
Santander, Spain	Spain
Seville	Spain
Valencia	Spain
Stockholm Arlanda	Sweden
Basel	Switzerland
Geneva	Switzerland
Zurich	Switzerland
Bangkok	Thailand
Chiang Mai	Thailand
Ko Samui	Thailand
Krabi	Thailand
Phuket	Thailand
Milas-Bodrum	Turkey
Dalaman	Turkey
Istanbul	Turkey
Stansted	UK
Belfast	UK
Edinburgh	UK
Glasgow	UK
Luton	UK
Newcastle upon Tyne	UK
Heathrow	UK
London City	UK
Dubai	United Arab Emirates
Boston	United States
Da Lat	Vietnam
Da Nang	Vietnam
Hanoi	Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Two new ones to add for me: flew this week.
DOH - Doha, QATAR
KUL - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

 

[Tetchytyke]

UK/Crown Dependencies:
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Belfast City
Belfast International
Derry/Londonderry
Newcastle
Leeds/Bradford
Manchester
Liverpool
Isle of Man
London Luton
London Heathrow
London City
London Gatwick
Jersey
Bristol
Exeter
Newquay

Europe:
Dublin
Paris CDG
Amsterdam Schiphol
Hamburg
Berlin Brandenburg
Memmingen
Luebeck
Munich
Salzburg
Ibiza
Lanzarote

Further afield:
Bahrain (but in about 1985!)
Dubai
Abu Dhabi
Colombo
Hong Kong Kai Tak
Hong Kong Chep Lak Kok
Cairns
Brisbane
Sydney
Melbourne

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I can now add:
DOH. Doha, Qatar February 18th pre Iran-USA-Israel war
KUL. Kuala Lumpur
JED Jeddah Saudi Arabia