Correct! Diego Garcia, located in the Indian Ocean south of the Maldives, is a very strategic, restricted-access airport for the U.S./U.K. military. Yet, I doubt most Americans/British have ever heard of it.
oly720man From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 6225 posts, RR: 11 Reply 24, posted (3 years 1 week 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 2734 times:
Quoting BNAOWB (Reply 23): Next one: 2953mi from LHR. There is a nonstop flight on this route.
Ashgabat/Ashkhabad, ASB.
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25 BNAOWB: Correct! Next: South America - Africa 4064mi. Name the 2 airports and the airline of this current nonstop.
26 oly720man: OK 3 airports at distances 651mi, 717mi and 665mi from LHR. The 1st letters of their codes spell another airport. What is it? (it's a long way from Eu
28 Initious: Spot on! Here's another one, but easy one this time: EWR 9535 miles CMB 1710 miles WLG 5294 miles
29 oly720man: You must know your miles or have a lot of spare time. ok another one 3357mi 3448 mi 5285 mi all from KUL will find somewhere in Africa. A longer chal
30 j0rdan: GRU-LAD on DT SIN NRT+ DXB+ JNB= NDJ - N'Djamena, Chad Jordan
31 RyanairGuru: OK, if I were in CAN which airports would be 6897, 2577, 4908 miles away? Hence figure out the ICAO code of an airline that flies to all four cities..
33 Initious: SFO, AMD, IST The airline that serves all 4 destinations is none other than SQ! =D[Edited 2010-06-09 21:07:55]
34 Initious: Now for another one: I'm at SIN, the three airports are 8892mi, 5850mi and 9245mi respectively. When you take the first alphabet of the three IATA cod
35 vhqpa: 1. NRT 2. DXB 3. JNB Answer: N'djamena, Chad (NDJ) Here's one using the same rules this time a little harder one of the digits in each distance has t
36 BNAOWB: Yes. TIJ WAW ABQ =TWA Another one: From BCN, distances of 1918mi, 1621mi, and 3272mi. Same scenario. The first letter of each airport code will spell
37 VZLA787: WOW!!!! and I thought I had spare time................LOL!!!!
38 j0rdan: TLV SIP OMS UN (Transaero) flies to all 3 + BCN Here is another: From HEL, distances of 4966mi, 3873mi and 3964mi. First letter of each IATA airport
39 BNAOWB: Great job! SNA (1166 nm) KGI (896 nm) (I had never heard of Kalgoorlie before this) P?? I am still completely stumped on this one - any clues?? = SKP
40 vhqpa: Very very close. SNA and KGI are correct the third airport is X26 nm Northwest from BHX and 9X nm from BFS. I'm actually surprised someone got this c
41 j0rdan: SNA (1166nm) KGI (896nm) GLA (226nm) = SKG That was a good one! Jordan
42 BNAOWB: It would be interesting to see if this could be done without getting out of order with a connection. Perhaps city name alphabetical order would be ea
44 BNAOWB: Another with same rules (first letter of each airport code spells ICAO code of airline that flies to all 4 airports): From GYD: 1197mi, 1586mi, and 21
45 j0rdan: VKO LED KJA = VLK/XF (Vladivostok Air) Jordan
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Oops! I mean JNB as 5167mi as you noted, sorry about that. 
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