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Breathe wrote:Given Belfast has a relatively small population but has two airports, are there any other small cities/towns (i.e. less than 750,000 people) that are served by more than one airport?
flyingturtle wrote:Zurich might fit the bill. ZRH being the large airport, and the former military base Dübendorf which serves some private, rescue and business aviation.
While the city of Zurich has just 400'000 inhabitants, when including neighbouring communities, Zurich would clock in at about 1.3 million people, though.
David
vfw614 wrote:Not sure what your benchmark is - scheduled services at both? If not, some European cities I can think of:
Copenhague: Kastrup and Roskilde.
Lyon: Satolas and Bron
Toulouse: Blagnac and Lasbordes
Palma: Son San Juan and Son Bonet
Frankfurt: Rhein Main and Egelsbach
(until recently) Gothenburg: Landvetter and Save
(until recently): Bristol: Lulsgate and Filton
The only airport pair with scheduled flights at both is, however, Copenhague (Gothenburg and Bristol (sort of) would have qualified as well.
There are, of course, some more where airports far away have been named after a larger city with its own airport (e.g. DUS-NRN, FRA-HHN) for marketing purposes but I suppose we are not looking for those.
phxsanslcpdx wrote:Northern Ireland is small enough that it makes more sense to look at these airports as both serving the country (1.8-1.9 million), rather than just the fraction of the country defined as Belfast city or metro. A couple points of comparison...
Hawaii (the big island) has slightly more land area, about 10% of the population of Northern Ireland, and scheduled service at both ITO and KOA.
The cities of the Salt Lake-Provo-Orem combined statistical area are comparable in population and land area (although the CSA includes a lot more empty land, too) to Northern Ireland, and have scheduled service at SLC, PVU, OGD, and LGU. Plus pretty regular charter service to ENV.
Breathe wrote:Given Belfast has a relatively small population but has two airports, are there any other small cities/towns (i.e. less than 750,000 people) that are served by more than one airport?
SmithAir747 wrote:Fort Wayne, IN, has 250,000 population (about 400,000 MSA), and is served by 2 airports: Fort Wayne International (FWA) for airline service (G4, AA, UA, DL) and Smith Field (SMD) for GA aircraft.
SmithAir747
Breathe wrote:Given Belfast has a relatively small population but has two airports, are there any other small cities/towns (i.e. less than 750,000 people) that are served by more than one airport?
ua900 wrote:Breathe wrote:Given Belfast has a relatively small population but has two airports, are there any other small cities/towns (i.e. less than 750,000 people) that are served by more than one airport?
For example, FAT also has FCH and E79 while SMF also has SAC and so on...
Wingtips56 wrote:ua900 wrote:Breathe wrote:Given Belfast has a relatively small population but has two airports, are there any other small cities/towns (i.e. less than 750,000 people) that are served by more than one airport?
For example, FAT also has FCH and E79 while SMF also has SAC and so on...
Sacramento doesn't really count here; while the City population is around 500K, the metropolitan population is 2.4 million. However for the record, it has three commercial airports (SMF, MHR, MCC) plus SAC (G.A. since 1967 when airlines moved to the new SMF), plus additional G.A. strips in the region. I think this thread needs to consider metro areas, not just the population inside the official city limits.
Other markets depend on how broadly one considers their region. As mentioned above, St. Lucia's two airports are not that far apart as the crow flies, but having driven through the jungle on a terrrible road between Vigie and Hewanorra, I would personally consider them as different markets. As said, some examples are a commercial airport paired with a G.A. airport, which I don't think is what the O.P. was going for.
I think that Belfast is one of the few examples of a city surprisingly having two different airline-served airports for its size. L.A., S.F., NYC, London, Paris, Saõ Paulo, Tokyo, Buenos Aires... not so much.
Steamboat Springs, Colorado used to be served by two airports, SBS and HDN (Hayden, Yampa Valley). Once larger airlines started flying in for the ski season, the mainliners had to go to HDN while the expresses could still fit at SBS. Now it appears all commercial goes to HDN. (So there went my great contribution out the window.)
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