Desperately tried to enter Kiev and after checking, you are absolutely right not having it on the list. Only if you added up the traffic of both airports you'd make it to the ilst. Enjoyed the quiz!
There's a hilarious HAI video on YouTube about the shambolic attempt to revamp Berlin's airports, you must check it out....! You don't normally associate the Germans with that level of incompetence and chaos.
Thanks to you I spent some lovely time learning more about Murmansk. It is a beautiful city in its own way. I once lived at 65 degrees north so I have always been interested in the Arctic.
The airport is also quite close to city centre, no place or desire for growth maybe.
Anyway the next airports missing are quite expected, #52-70: Catania, Naples, Reykjavik, Glasgow, Toulouse, Marseille, Milan-Linate, Bristol, Faro, Basel, Bologna, Ibiza, Iraklia. Brussels-Charleroi, Valencia, Riga, Sofia, Malta, Gothenburg
Among these Naples had the highest growth (15.8%!) and jumped 6 places, so maybe next year we'll see it here. Only Vnukovo and Boryspil had higher growth in TOP51.
Wow, Schiphol now has almost as many passengers as Charles de Gaulle. Frankly, this is deserved. From Northern France, I prefer to go to Schiphol because it's so much better than CDG (Terminal 2E is godforsaken).
Edinburgh is the political and financial capital of Scotland, plus the second most visited tourist city in the UK, so it gets a lot of traffic for government, business, as well as tourist reasons. (by financial capital, I mean there are a lot of big financial capitals with their HQs and administrative centres there)
Funny how the source actually includes the Canary Islands as part of Europe (being Spain and all), rather than Africa, but then again all of Turkey is included in the source as well and we are back to our favourite discussion on where Europe starts and ends :)
Very surprised to see Alicante on here. Only 300K population and shrinking, and I never hear people talking about traveling there. I would guess it's a popular short trip for Spaniards... can any Spaniards confirm?
Alacant as a city doesn't offer much but its coastline is very exploited in terms of tourist-appealing resort cities such as Dénia, Calp, La Vila Joiosa, Benidorm or Altea.
It's popular with tourists from elsewhere in Europe, I've often seen flights there in various airports. I doubt people from Spain are making domestic flights in such huge numbers.
Missed a few I should have remembered - Prague, Stuttgart, Warsaw, Lyon, but I couldn't have remembered Alicante because I've never heard of it. Looked it up and it appears to be a beautiful, historical place.
Please correct order of Moscow airports. Since about 2014 Sheremetyevo has had greater passenger traffic than Domodedovo. Vnukovo, as of now, the third biggest airport of Moscow still.
This quiz was not very challenging because it allowed the guessing of city names, rather than the airport names only. So it basically became a "list the top cities in Europe"
Many of these are not "top cities in Europe" but rather top tourist destinations. Others are commercial air travel hubs whose airport traffic is larger than the size of the cities they service.
Anyway the next airports missing are quite expected, #52-70: Catania, Naples, Reykjavik, Glasgow, Toulouse, Marseille, Milan-Linate, Bristol, Faro, Basel, Bologna, Ibiza, Iraklia. Brussels-Charleroi, Valencia, Riga, Sofia, Malta, Gothenburg
Among these Naples had the highest growth (15.8%!) and jumped 6 places, so maybe next year we'll see it here. Only Vnukovo and Boryspil had higher growth in TOP51.
but incorrectly guessed Ljubljana, Jersey, Versailles, Dubrovnik, and Thessaloniki...
Charles de Gualle is in Roissy, not Paris, for example.
But no, it's still closed.
I thought of trying it, but since Palermo wasn't on there, I thought it would be useless...
I literally just took this yesterday and today I have to do it all over again. *sigh*