Technically only Heathrow and City are in London... Gatwick is in Surrey/West Sussex, Luton is in Bedfordshire and Stansted is in Essex, but they are all considered London airports, though interestingly not all of their airport codes represent this (LHR, LGW, LCY, STN and LTN repectively).
Stansted is as far from London as Luton is. Following your logic, Gatwick wouldn't be included either (it's in Sussex, a county that doesn't even border Greater London!). Luton is officially called London-Luton airport - it serves London.
My daughter used to live in Phoenix and I always had good experiences when I flew there. Once I needed a wheelchair and I was treated like royalty by the staff. That was several years ago, maybe it's different now. Actually, I can't think of a domestic airport where I wasn't treated well and I've been to Logan, JFK, LaGuardia, Lambert, Denver, San Francisco, LAX, San Jose, Memphis, Salt Lake City, and Lihue. But I always try to time flights very early in the morning or on days of the week when they aren't as busy.
The only ones I knew before taking this quiz were New York, Chicago, London, and Boston; the rest were just guesses. By the way, couldn't Newark airport also be counted as one of New York's airports? Even though it's in New Jersey, I've always heard it be considered a part of New York City's metro area and one of the three airports there.
It's not a comprehensive quiz, guy. And it's not a quiz on the busiest airports in the world either. There will be other quizzes. Atlanta may or may not feature in one of them. It'll be okay.
ah, just a little correction: Congonhas airport in the STATE of São Paulo is not in São Paulo CITY as this quiz explicitly suggests but in the city of...CONGONHAS. Search your stuff carefully to confirm but trust me, I'm from Salvador, Brazil and I've been to Congonhas, both the city and the airport.
What are you talking about ? There's no city of Congonhas ? The airport is named after the neighborhood where it is located, formerly called Vila Congonhas, property of the descendants of Lucas Antônio Monteiro de Barros (1767–1851), Viscount of Congonhas do Campo. It is right in THE MIDDLE OF Sao Paulo, so in the middle that is actually unable to grow and therefore Guarulhos Airport (actually the name of that airport is Mario Covas) was built in the neighboring city of Guarulhos. And trust me, I am from Sao Paulo.
Isn’t Mário Covas the name of Viracopos Airport (Campinas)? Not Guarulhos, which is Governador André Franco Montoro.
And Congonhas is on the city of São Paulo. It was planned to be away from the center, but the growing of the city, made the airport be squished on the buildings. Trust me, I’m from Belo Horizonte, and although I never went to São Paulo (only for make a stopover on Guarulhos, from Confins to Ezeiza on Buenos Aires), I’m getting interested about the airports and these stuff.
Why? I'm a local. The airport's name is Reagan National. Or Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Or Washington National. Or DCA. Or Reagan. Or National. All of these names are used interchangeably and I've never observed them upsetting anyone. Apparently the name was changed in 1998. I was 19. I don't remember it happening.
Maybe 'older local' might have worked better in @philnino's comment. I fly out of Newark primarily. After 2001, its 'official' name became 'Newark Liberty International Airport'. Not one person I know or have ever met uses the word 'Liberty' except when making official announcements (eg, a flight attendant on the intercom). I think the Reagan/National interchangeability works a lot better for DCA than for EWR.
::shrug:: my dad is almost 70 years old and I've heard him call the airport both Reagan and National. My mom has lived in the area since 1953 and does the same. Never knew anyone to make a fuss over the name. Like I said, I wasn't even aware that it had changed. Though Reagan wasn't president that long ago so logically it had to.
Why? Bangkok is a national capital and a huge tourist destination. Sao Paulo is the largest city in Brazil and one of the largest in the world. Phoenix? Meh.
I'd be one of them. Have flown out of both Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang many times each. Never been to Phoenix before. Even if that weren't true, Suvarnabhumi looks like a Thai name and would be easy to guess. Congonhas and Guarulhos are both obviously from some Portuguese-speaking country. Sky Harbor is so generic it could be literally anywhere.
Fun fact, 'Suvarnabhumi' literally means 'golden land' or 'land of gold', which is the name of a historical or mythical kingdom in Thailand, which was located nearby!
Anyone with a passing knowledge for world geography will be able to narrow down those airports based on the spelling/language of the names: regions or particular countries can be deduced, and then it's a case of naming capitals and/or major cities in those areas/countries. Sky Harbor on the other hand is in the country with more major airports than any other country (although at least the spelling of Harbor does narrow it down to the US).
Why aren't you complaining about all the Italian airports on here? There are three, that's half as many as the number of American airports, and yet the USA is more than 30x larger than Italy.
But Italy has around 65 million international tourists per year compared to around 80 million for the USA (or around 80%). The size of the country is not that relevant. And I am not complaining about the number of US airports on here by the way as I knew four and soon got the other two. The only answer I couldn't work out was Johannesburg
You're actually arguing that the number of Italian airports on here is justified vs. the number of American ones? Good grief some of you people... this is beyond nonsensical. 3 million people PER DAY fly in an out of US airports. The fact that Europeans cannot coexist and so their continent is incredibly Balkanized geopolitically does make the people moving about here and there on the land mass count more as people. If the US tomorrow broke up into 50 different countries then all of a sudden you could say that the country of Florida receives 80 million "international" tourists per year (the # of visiting non-Floridians in 2020), making them, by your logic, just as relevant as the entire country of Italy.
And for the record I'm also not complaining... the # of US airports here is fine. The # of Italian airports here is fine. I'm merely pointing out how absurd and obviously biased against one special country the complainers are.
I find it odd that you didn't include Newark Airport. It serves the NYC metro area, even though it's a state over, just like how Narita Airport serves the Tokyo metro area, even though it's a prefecture over.
Sure, now he's dead
It makes me just see red
You are such a brute
To murder that old coot
You homicidal bastard, now he's really dead"
On the plus side, the Johnson space center (also in Houston) was named after LBJ died.
Technically only Heathrow and City are in London... Gatwick is in Surrey/West Sussex, Luton is in Bedfordshire and Stansted is in Essex, but they are all considered London airports, though interestingly not all of their airport codes represent this (LHR, LGW, LCY, STN and LTN repectively).
And Congonhas is on the city of São Paulo. It was planned to be away from the center, but the growing of the city, made the airport be squished on the buildings. Trust me, I’m from Belo Horizonte, and although I never went to São Paulo (only for make a stopover on Guarulhos, from Confins to Ezeiza on Buenos Aires), I’m getting interested about the airports and these stuff.
And for the record I'm also not complaining... the # of US airports here is fine. The # of Italian airports here is fine. I'm merely pointing out how absurd and obviously biased against one special country the complainers are.