Zrs70 From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 2697 posts, RR: 11 Posted (7 years 8 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1343 times:
Let me rephrase:
What's the most isolated, middle of nowhere, small city airport you have been to with mainline jet service?
I suppose Bangor Maine ranks up there for me, as I used to fly UA and DL in there. DOn't get me wrong, I understand that BGR is an important airport for Maine, but it's pretty isolated up there.
Let's see, others would be:
Helena, MT (mainline DL until a few years ago)
Eugene, OR (UA, until a few years ago)
CanadianNorth From Canada, joined Aug 2002, 3355 posts, RR: 12 Reply 1, posted (7 years 8 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1320 times:
theres always Whitehorse, Yukon... We have a good sized population (about 23,000) but its a good few hours down the highway to the nearest place with more than 50 people.
Chock2throttle From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 25 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (7 years 8 months 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 1252 times:
EKO Elko NV. Still gets service from SkyWest to RNO and SLC. The RNO portion is soon to be gone. Also a charter company "casino express" operates some strange routes.
COFreqFlyer From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 397 posts, RR: 3 Reply 4, posted (7 years 8 months 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 1243 times:
Midland/Odessa (KMAF), Lubbock (KLBB), Amarillo (KAMA) all are way out in the middle of nowhere.
Trickijedi From United States of America, joined May 2001, 3266 posts, RR: 6 Reply 6, posted (7 years 8 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1229 times:
I transited through MEM a few years back and it seemed like our flight was the only one that landed at that time. Other than a few airline employees and a couple of janitors taking out the trash, one else was really around. It was late at night however.
Also, on the international front, I landed in a small airport in southern Philippines called Zamboanga Airport and since the airport only served a few flights a day, once again, almost no one was present when we landed. There were a few porters and airport empoyees helping out with luggage. I can see the place being extremely deserted most of the day.
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PNEPilot From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (7 years 8 months 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 1209 times:
Terminal D at KPHL, 5am one stormy Saturday morning in December at the insistance my wife who was totally adamant that because we were on an international flight (PHL-JFK-LHR) we needed to check in two hours before our hopper to JFK departed
Geoffm From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2004, 2111 posts, RR: 8 Reply 10, posted (7 years 8 months 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1202 times:
Dinard, France (DNR?) on Ryanair. The tower controller came down and rolled the airstairs to the plane. The immigration lady also unloaded the bags and put them on the single conveyer. Same going back again.
Csavel From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 1317 posts, RR: 5 Reply 13, posted (7 years 8 months 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1187 times:
Iquitos Peru, Faucett 737
Iquitos is actually a good-sized city but it is isolated in the middle of the Peruvian Amazon, Andes to the left and 2,000 miles of jungle to the right. No way out but b air, or a looong river cruise down the Amazon. There is nothing but beautiful jungle for miles around. Hope it is still like that.
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FlyingKangaroo From Australia, joined Apr 2004, 532 posts, RR: 3 Reply 14, posted (7 years 8 months 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1187 times:
Don't know if this counts, but last weekend i was in Udaipore in India. Flew down from DEL on a 9W ATR-72, but there was an Alliance Air 737-200 holding short when we landed, so it does get jet service.
BAViscount From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 2326 posts, RR: 4 Reply 15, posted (7 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1145 times:
Aw, I was going to say Longyearbyen (Spitsbergen) airport on Svalbard, but I see someone has already beaten me to it! Using that airport was quite an experience (as was visiting Svalbard) - as JGPH1A has already said, it's a just a converted hangar, but gets crowded when a flight is about to depart - total chaos!
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Oly720man From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 6081 posts, RR: 12 Reply 16, posted (7 years 7 months 4 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 1134 times:
Not out of the way, but Nimes (France) was one of those places that got the flight from Paris in the morning and the flight from Paris in the evening and that was it. I once took a Mercure from Nimes to Orly. My parents who dropped me off had the entertainment of seeing a passenger who arrived on the morning flight get back to his car and find it on its hubs because someone had pinched the wheels.
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Lono From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1298 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 1103 times:
SCC/PUO, BRW, OTZ, OME, DLG, BET, ADQ, CDV, YAK, PSG, JNU, WRG, KTN all have no roads in or out and are very remote ... AS serves many very small communities with daily jet service.... spendy spendy spendy $$$
YXY is very remote... but you can drive there!!! but yes it is out in the middle of the Yukon!!!
BAe146TOM From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2004, 228 posts, RR: 6 Reply 18, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 1099 times:
Frankfurt-Hahn supposedly near to Frankfurt ! Ha could of made me laugh took me 8 hours to get to my destination where as it would have normally took 3!
Jetpixx From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 803 posts, RR: 2 Reply 19, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1071 times:
MLB has got to be THE most deserted airport I've ever flown into...DL is the only airline to offer mainline there - and I know they have a few more new services now (COEx, I think) - but DL was the only game in town when I flew through there to ATL.
I flew into FLL from ATL via MIA on a 763 and besides all of the people on my flight, we were the only people in the airport when we got in near 2am. The place was deserted.
The smallest airports I've ever flown to would have to be BIL, CAK, MHT and MSO - each time I flew in mainline - all times on DL - we were the only airplane on the ground, except for in MHT. It was still very quiet there, too.
I also flew out of JAX once at 5am and got to the airport around 3:30am and was bored stiff, as nothing was open and there was jack to do.
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! Ha could of made me laugh took me 8 hours to get to my destination where as it would have normally took 3! 
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