Which Airports Are Furthest From The City They’re Named After?

In our increasingly interconnected world, many cities are now served by multiple airports. While this helps give both incoming and outgoing passengers more options, there can sometimes be a catch. Specifically, it is important to be aware that some airports are rather a long way from the city that they serve. But which are the most distant? Let’s find out.
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[@azhar1798]

I've dropped my friend for flight to dubai at the kempegowda airport (bangalore), and he landed at DXB before I reached home, thanks to bangalore traffic

[@ErvinTagoe]

Wow! 😲 😲

[@areenchakraborty2209]

Wow..., really or is it a joke?

[@AshrakAhmed]

Happened to my father once. I was flying to Kuala Lumpur from Dhaka, Bangladesh for a holiday trip, even though the airport is at the suburb of the city but the traffic jam is so bad at Dhaka that I was in KLX before he got home to the other end of the city.

[@aryankhandelwal787]

Bangalore moment and its true

[@kujursameer86]

Lol. Happened to me too. The traffic is a nightmare.

[@JxH]

Ryanair flies into "London-Winnipeg"; but you'll need to connect via an 8h Air Canada flight to get back to the UK.

[@franklinmohlala955]

🤣🤣🤣you just need to cross a pond bigger than the Channel called Atlantic. Not a stretch mate

[@jamesharlow7525]

😂😂😂

[@WerewolfLord]

That's an even further stretch than flying into YXU! 🤣 (something I wouldn't put past Ryanair)

[@perfecthomeimprovements717]

Wouldn't surprise me 😂😂😂

[@williamhuang8309]

London Ontario Canada aka Fake London

[@sinair285]

To arrive into Tokyo from NRT, the best way is not to drive, but taking a “Skyliner” train, which can take you to the heart of Tokyo in just 40 minutes

[@viceice]

Kuala Lumpur as well has such a train. It only takes 28mins. Tho most locals prefer the bus as it's 1/5 the price...

[@sinair285]

@@viceice I remembered when I traveled to KL, I took the KLIA Transit to some point, and changed to a coach to the KLIA Cargo Terminal for AirAxxa🤣

[@viceice]

@@sinair285 that was a loooong time ago! AirAsia has a new terminal and the train goes directly there now.

[@stephancox9105]

Denver's airport, as far away from the city as it is, is also connected to Downtown by rail.

[@benoitbourdaire4194]

I prefer the Narita Express...

[@christophsaviation2045]

I live in Frankfurt and as much as Frankfurt Main is a beautiful and close airport at a bicycle distance from the city center, Frankfurt Hahn is probably one of the biggest Real-World clickbait I've ever seen.

[@partickdistel6580]

Tok tok tok kukelekuuuuuuu🐓

[@timitonagain]

Hey Christoph

[@jeremyhawkins4827]

120 km from the city it’s named after... might as well open a route between those two airports

[@mancubwwa]

While I did fly to Hahn a few times, it was alway when I travelled to locations that are actually close to it, I.E. Mosel Valley. I would never use it to try to reach Frankfurt.

[@ginforyou150]

Lmao i was traveling to FRA and i told my friend come pick me up, i had totally forgotten which airport i was arriving, he went to Frankfurt international and i was at Hahn, 120 km away and was alrdy 00:00........... the clickbait of my life

[@williamfey62_40]

I lived In Kuala Lumpur for about 9 years. KLIA is about a 45 minute drive or you could ride the KLIA Express (train service) which takes about 30 minutes on the direct route from KLIA Sentral (in KL with subway and monorail service around KL) to KLIA 1 and 2.

[@robertbruce2182]

Driving there is not to bad as long as there is no traffic

[@williamfey62_40]

@@robertbruce2182 yup

[@nickhanlon9331]

Or you can fall asleep on the bus like I did.

[@williamfey62_40]

@@nickhanlon9331 never took the bus to the airport but I did like the KLIA Express.

[@AndrewHazelleTravels]

I drive to KLIA from Kuala Lumpur to work everyday. Its a 45-50mins drive

[@paulmiller1359]

I once took a Ryanair flight to Oslo Torp which got diverted to Oslo Gardermoen because of heavy snow. Landing there on the snow covered runway was awesome and I felt I had finally got one up on Ryanair!

[@PavlosPapageorgiou]

Narita, but that works because flights are generally long haul and the two train lines that get you to the city in under an hour are comfortable.

[@anteeklund4159]

Stockholm Västerås Airport is literally in a completely different, Independent city in a different province

[@Dave_Sisson]

I was sure Melbourne - Avalon would make this list. But it's a relatively modest 65 km from the city, although it is located on industrial wasteland near an oil refinery.

[@viceice]

I was going to being up Avalon too!

[@alooga555]

That sounds like Newark Airport, although it's closer to NYC.

[@neljonhporia]

How about Geeelong lol i remember airasia marketed it as Melbourne geelong Airport lolol

[@Brettski_1234]

Yes Avalon is technically in Geelong which makes it easier for those of us who live in Geelong

[@neljonhporia]

@@Brettski_1234 oh yeah the near one is tullamarine no?

[@sfojulius]

I love the slogan of Paris-Vatry airport: "So close. So fast" xD

[@EREJones]

maybe if you're from Reims...

[@bassman19944]

Up until 1985, São Paulo's main airport, Viracopos International Airport (VCP), was an astounding 100km (62.5 miles) from São Paulo. I flew there once in the late 70s, I thought I would never make it into the city. Definitely the longest distance from an airport to the city it served that I have ever experienced! It's still in operation but has no longer been São Paulo's international airport since Guarulhos (GRU) opened in 1985, but it still has some domestic traffic and lots of cargo operations now.

[@well-blazeredman6187]

I would expect to be able to get to the city centre in less than an hour, using public transport. Any longer and I'll think the airport and/or airline guilty of sharp practise.

[@well-blazeredman6187]

@Patrick Hudson I chose an hour because that is about as much time as I would allow for a trip from central London to either LGW or LHR. I should have added 'without crossing a national border' to my criteria. In my experience, in-city airports are quite rare - with the USA having more than most.

[@pirroshuteriqi3411]

Including traffic? Bcs where I live the airport is just 20 KM away from city center but in certain hours of the day it could take more than 60 min to go to bcs of the traffic

[@well-blazeredman6187]

@@pirroshuteriqi3411 You're over-complexificationating things, Pirro.

[@TheLibermania]

@Patrick Hudson You know that planes can't land in cities because of noise and pollution and that runways for bigger planes are extremely long.

[@RealConstructor]

In The Netherlands we have Schiphol Airport near the Amsterdam (in an adjacent municipality), but the most used runway is almost in Haarlem. So after landing, the plane has to taxi for 20 minutes to reach the gate. That’s also an option, keep the terminal close to the city, but the runways far away. It’s better for noise reduction.

[@sho1715]

Still AMS is so convinrent from the downtown. I love it

[@rahulkrishnan7834]

Bangalore International Airport (KIAL) has to be on the list. While it is only 50 Kms from the city center, Bangalore's notorious traffic and lack of any suburban rail connectivity means that it takes more than 2 hours to get to the city center !!

[@e.c.listening326]

In a time before smartphones and navigation computers were a thing, I had a rather unpleasant surprise after a lovely holiday in the Highlands of Scotland. Found out “the late way” that Glasgow-Prestwick EGPK is about 40 miles away from Glasgow Airport EGPF. One hour’s drive further south was not planned for and had me almost miss the flight.

[@griffinmccue6189]

4:17 When Tokyo is concerned, you have to remember that the city itself has a population of around 14 MILLION people and a metropolitan area of 40 MILLION people. It's tough to find space to put an airport to serve a city that big.

[@timgrisham9051]

Washington Dulles always seemed like a long drive from the city. The 30 miles doesn't compare to some on this list.

[@SkiDaBird]

I've always thought the same about Denver. I've only gone to downtown Denver once though, usually I just head straight to the mountains, but it always feels like it's way out in the middle of nowhere.

[@Andrew-jv7tc]

With Dulles being a $60+ Uber these days, it may as well be on the list.

[@akeme25]

@@SkiDaBird I was thinking the same about Denver too. Although the airport is still technically “in” Denver

[@buksteebi]

Dulles finally got the Metro Silver line, but that is still an hour-ish(?) ride to DC.

[@carsten2293]

So I have flown with Ryanair once (and regret it till today) from Düsseldorf-Weeze Airport, which is about 70km away from Düsseldorf. I think it is ridiculous to allow the airlines to use those names...

[@Loljdk]

Cheap European airlines are notorious for this false advertisement.

[@abhishekrao1525]

No one travelling to NYC is going to fly into Stewart. NYC is serviced by 3 airports. Stewart is for the surrounding region and also serves as an ANG base.

[@EllisEllo]

You might as well fly into Islip if you can't get a flight into Newark, let alone JFK or LaGuardia.

[@greek9244]

Well flights to belfast from there happened often but they also done Newark to belfast too

[@alooga555]

When I lived in Westchester County north of NYC, White Plains Airport was my choice.

[@syxepop]

@@EllisEllo - actually ISP is ~ 9mi. closer (takes about the same travel time) to Manhattan than Stewart.

[@RunawayTrain2502]

Norweigan used Stewart Airport back in the day.

[@pilotofjet]

My glider club is located near Vatry, that airport is mostly used for training and cargo purposes. It happened to a friend of me to fly above an A380 on final. Usually there's very few flights per day though, which makes it good to glide through their airspace.

[@tomburke5311]

I have flown into KL International, and I did think that it was quite a long drive into the city. Not too congested, however, so quite quick - much better, I’m sure, than Heathrow into central London. But quite scary - I found that drivers in Malaysia are more casual about lane changing, or even lane observance, than I’m used to.

[@metalbob123]

welcome to Asia

[@arsyadidris2919]

As a malaysian,, i cant argue with that😂 but i did talk to a pakistani national during college years about the behaviour of our drivers, n his response was “dont worry, u guys r alright. Its worse where im from” well ok then

[@tomburke5311]

@Arsyad Idris: I’ve never been to Pakistan or India; indeed, my travelling has been modest. Perhaps it was the contrast with Singapore, where I’d been previously, that I noticed! In Europe, Naples is the only thing place I’ve visited where a lot of cars had dents and scrapes on all 4 corners….

[@oscarsusan3834]

KL is an eye opener. Seen a couple of motorbike KIA on that freeway on the way to that airport.

[@alooga555]

Good thing the Keisei Skyliner express train gets you to downtown Tokyo from "Tokyo (actually it's in Chiba Prefecture)" Narita Airport in about 35 minutes (BUT you have to change trains once you get to Nippori Station).

[@sinair285]

Even with the interchange in Nippori, one can manage to arrive Shinjuku in just one hour

[@AshrakAhmed]

I just went down to Ueno when I first visited Tokyo, thinking Narita is a Tokyo Airport! Never again! Now always to and from Haneda.

[@sinair285]

@@AshrakAhmed Air tickets to HND is significantly more expensive than that to NRT, and the train ride towards NRT is so nice that can compensate the long ride

[@Arcadia1997]

@@sinair285 Is the view along the train ride nice?

[@sinair285]

@@Arcadia1997 not just nice but spectacular that I can forgive the length

[@Vicstarz26]

Hamilton International airport is marketed as Toronto’s 3rd airport. It’s roughly an hour and fifteen minutes away from downtown Toronto (92km away). A few airlines try to take advantage of this.

[@andrepoiy1199]

It's still named Hamilton Munro Airport tho

[@glenverbelen522]

The new Istanbul airport (IST) is also a 1.5-2h drive to the city centre especially with the busy traffic around there. The older Ataturk airport (ISL) seems much closer

[@baudprananto4988]

Kertajati West Java International Airport (KJT) is intended to serve Bandung, the capital of West Java Province in Indonesia. Before temporary shutdown due to pandemic, the most convenient way from Bandung to the airport requires a detour in the existing highway, totaling 178 km. Upon reopening after the pandemic, it is expected that a more direct highway will be completed, cutting the distance to 97 km.

[@madesatwikadarma841]

Berarti bandung kertajati paling jauh dibanding list di sini, gila ya klo dari bandung mau ke kertajati, dari depok ke soetta 60 km aja jauh bgt rasanya

[@kasparvg]

Fun fact: Some airports in Norway, like BOO and TOS (Bodø and Tromsø) lies in an industrial area just outside the city centre. In Bodø, it's under 10 minutes on the bus into the city.

[@thefurbeastunderyourbed5012]

When Ryanair still flew into Magdeburg-Cochstedt, it was sometimes marketed as Berlin West Int'l although it's a fair 130km away.

[@airbus_a320neo]

BRUH

[@cybersquire]

Well it IS west of Berlin, sooo…

[@brianflanagan3500]

Norwegian used to operate a flight from Dublin to “Boston”. Which in reality was to Providence (RI). Just over 50 miles away of a little over one hours drive.

[@briangasser973]

Southwest used to market Providence and Manchester as Boston area airports until they got slots at Logan.

[@Vivek-zw3ex]

Having lived in Kuala Lumpur, I can attest to how far the airport is from the city. That said, there is an excellent airport train (KLIA Ekspres) that makes the journey in 28 minutes. A number of airlines even have check in facilities at the KL Sentral train station that you can use to check in your bags for your flight before you even get on the train to the airport!

[@eheigis]

It isn’t necessarily far distance wise, but when I flew out of London Luton a few years back it cost almost as much to get to the airport (£20) as it did for my Ryan Air flight to Copenhagen (€26).

[@airbus_a320neo]

woooow

[@mathuringarcier]

In Nairobi to reach the airport in the evening, it once took me 4 hours to go there. And also in December 2019 going from CDG to central Paris took 3 hours due to strikes (yeah that's France)

[@Jafyaa]

Nairobi must been as a result of traffic. There's now an expressway in place and it should be 20 minutes max from the CBD to the airport

[@mathuringarcier]

@@Jafyaa yes it was traffic of course and with all the bypasses nowadays it doesn't take that long

[@MarsastheCat]

Nairobi is awful because of traffic. And then that vehicle/passenger inspection before you even reach the terminal 🙈

[@mathuringarcier]

@@MarsastheCat I find that reassuring to be honest, it does create lots of traffic when crowded but I like it how it is (safety is n° 1)

[@royeb63]

@@Jafyaa A taxi from Globe Roundabout (close to the CBD) to the airport took about 35 minutes two days ago. This was at 21:00, so not so much traffic. Our driver used the Outer Ring Road. A longer route, but much less traffic than going through the city center. ... I miss Nairobi already.

[@pimienta3703]

From Japan and I wasn’t expecting Narita to be introduced But they have a train service to city center which takes only half an hour so it’s not that far away as it sounds ;)

[@firdausariff]

Same deal with Kuala Lumpur Airport. The fast train link made it rather nice. We learnt from Tokyo after all. 😆

[@mathuringarcier]

I remember hearing a story of people reaching Vatry and they were told that they were 160km from Paris when booking they didn't realize their action🤣🤣

[@JoaoPessoa86]

and it's clearly closer to Reims

[@itsg4el]

It’s not even in Ile-de-France

[@jaysmith1408]

That’s how LaGuardia airport was developed, mayor LaGuardia landed at Newark, which in addition to being unfortunately in South Newark and Elizabeth, is in New Jersey. Mayor LaGuardia was furious that he was flown to neither his city, nor even his state, and demanded to be flown to Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn. Having Newark still being closer to Manhattan, they developed what was at the time Curtiss Airport. Nonetheless, with exception of Narita, revisit this as how far are airports reasonably associated with the city from that city. Oxford is not London, but Heathrow is. I’d list Stanstead as furthest. Stewart is a Lower Hudson area airport, like for Poughkeepsie, area between Scranton, Hartford, Albany, and the City of New York. Paris’ would be Charles De Gaulle. Most cities either put their airport in the city (makes sense, given they usually own them), annex the area (Chicago’s O’Hare), or have grown to surround the area.

[@neljonhporia]

@@itsg4el yeah so does Beauvais airport!! Atleast it's near the border tho

[@ramkumarsuresh]

@@jaysmith1408 London Ashford is closer to France than it is to London itself

[@alanstevens1296]

Melbourne Orlando International Airport (MLB). 70 miles from Orlando (which has its own international airport), located in Melbourne, Florida, USA. In 2015, the airport changed its name to "Orlando Melbourne International Airport". Airport and local tourism officials wanted to brand the airport as a less-congested alternative to Orlando's two airports. They also believed it would attract visitors who wanted to see Walt Disney World, Cape Canaveral, and the area's beaches. The airport is located approximately 70 miles (110 km) southeast of the City of Orlando. However, due to a lawsuit claiming this name was misleading to passengers, the airport changed its name in May 2021 to Melbourne Orlando International Airport.

[@atid42]

Sadly this is our cheapest option from the UK now, tui are flying to there instead of Sandford now (which was far away enough from Disney as it was)

[@asantaraliner]

Bandung shifted its airport from Husein Sastranegara to Kertajati, which is around 100 km away and it took almost 3 hours before the completion of the Cisumdawu Toll Road. It is currently out of operation due to Pandemic.

[@1992coen]

Furthest away for me was Brussels Charleroi Airport, which is about an hour drive (65km) from down town Brussels. As it is quite far south from Brussels, we always jokingly called it Paris North airport.

[@BagusWidyanto_HappyIn1997]

You forgot to list Kertajati airport which is located 166 km away from the city it served: Bandung. Under ideal traffic condition it takes 3 hours or more to complete the journey

[@scpatl4now]

LAX it once took an hour and a half from being picked up at the terminal to actually leaving the airport. That isn't distance...just really poor airport planning.

[@hothotheat3000]

Sounds like bad traffic, which is what LA is built on.

[@bobidou23]

There was a proposal to name Ibaraki Airport as “Tokyo Ibaraki Int’l Airport” which was withdrawn after an uproar, but even that airport would have been 80 km from Tokyo Station - shorter than some of the examples here!

[@The-Plane-Guy]

Didn't know that about KL. I flew there once before, but didn't realize how long the drive was from the airport.

[@jun_suzuki42]

the highway which linked the airport to the KL city center is one straight road, hence why

[@AshrakAhmed]

The train to the city centre is pretty good service, I mean I managed to get to the city, take the Petronas tower tour, buy souvenir, eat at a local restaurant, ride the mono rail and got back to the airport to have another meal then catch my flight to HK all in a 8 hour layover at KL.

[@sh230968]

I took the train. It was pretty nice.

[@denspotter1489]

Vatry airport is so far from paris that i can be used as a diversion airport for paris bound flights.

[@TheHayateMonogatari]

Qamdo/Changdu (BPX) Airport in Tibet lies about 125km from the city it serves, and what makes it more special is that it is the only airport you can find around the area, what a lonely airport to be...

[@99dndd]

Flew from Dublin to Beauvaus. 1hr10 on the plane, 1hr15 on a shuttle bus. Saying that, the flight and bus combined was cheaper than a flight to CDG and the bus dropped us off in the centre of Paris.

[@enaqleelectric]

I dont understand why Västerås markets is airport as one of the Stockholm airports, the thing is Västerås is its own city which in itself is quite large. Btw your way of pronouncing "Västerås" was amazing xD, I do understand how hard it is for others to pronounce Nordic cities or counties [Btw Västerås is kinda pronounced "Vesterous".

[@adamt195]

Most people outside of Sweden have never heard of Västerås, so they really wouldnt know any better. By that same logic, a few other airports in this video also shouldnt be called by the large city name, like London Oxford.

[@ivarnordlkken8082]

It's the same with Torp airport in Norway. It belongs to Sandefjord, and is situated between Sandefjord and Tønsberg. But KLM constantly market this airport as Oslo airport. I usedd it once, and it's a 2 hours bus-journey to Oslo.

[@KoichiFirst8092]

As a person who lives in Sweden, I thought the same about Västerås! Moreover, the first thing that came in my mind when seeing the video was Skavsta.

[@airbus_a320neo]

more like "vesteraws"

[@junafani1]

Westeros from GoT comes to my mind

[@AlexSprenger]

Don't forget Chicago/Rockford Intl Airport! 85 miles (136 km) away from Chicago itself

[@TheSjuris]

Great airport if you’re a box not exactly known for flying people around.

[@anndra-michealmacrae8059]

Prestwick International Airport (PIK) also called Glasgow Prestwick International Airport is over 32 miles from Glasgow City Centre. It is served primarily by Ryanair but has the longest runway in Scotland and use to be a major international airport for flights to America.

[@dissonantdreams]

Prestwick is still quite heavily used by US military traffic. It looked pretty busy on Flightradar during COP26 with lots of Globemasters coming and going.

[@risannd]

West Java International Airport, located in Kertajati, West Java, Indonesia, is supposed to serve Bandung, replacing Husein Sastranegara Airport in city center. Unfortunately, the new airport is now in dire situation, due to it being 105 km from Bandung. No public transport and toll roads currently available. The toll road is under construction.

[@tiadaid]

I used to commute from the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur to KUL back when I was working for Malaysia Airlines. It honestly doesn't feel that far, at least to me.

[@cz.travelmaster]

Oh how much I hate far away airports 😄 Apart from those mentioned in the video, I have experience with a few more. Tehran Imam Khomeini Airport - 55 km from Tehran Milano Malpensa Airport - 50 km from Milano Valencia Castellón Airport - 100 km from Valencia Brussels Charleroi Airport - 60 km from Brussels And then there are opposite extremes, which I absolutely love, e.g. Lisbon, Nice or Sofia, all of them located so close to the city centers, that I actually went there on foot at least once!

[@psrpippy]

As a flight attendant I can say with some confidence that Kuala lumpur is the furthest of any airport from the city centre. After a 13 hour flight from London we hate the hour plus long drive to get to the hotel.

[@johnp139]

MLB: “Since 2015, the airport had been named Orlando Melbourne International Airport. However, due to a lawsuit claiming this name was misleading to passengers, the airport changed its name in May 2021 to Melbourne Orlando International Airport.” 69 mile drive to Orlando.

[@arokh72]

Though a cool trip, IMO, would be to fly from Melbourne Orlando to Melbourne Tullamarine here in Australia :)

[@agentfourr0401]

The airport which is furthest from the city that I've been to is Cam Ranh International Airport (VVCR). It's 36 km away from Nha Trang city, we need about 45 mins to get there from Nha Trang city

[@adamsmailes5484]

On the other end of this spectrum, Newcastle International (UK) has the 2nd fastest train service between the airport and the city in the UK. More impressively, it has the fastest train service from an airport to two different city centres (being Newcastle Upon Tyne and Sunderland.). Of course this does involve betting on the reliability of the Metro.

[@rogerpenske2411]

Have you ever flown to Chicago? Hell, even taking the “L” is an hour away from the city even though the distance is only about 18 miles or less.

[@justus4341]

But isn’t Chicago’s airport located within the city?

[@rogerpenske2411]

@@justus4341 I thought that I had replied but apparently it did not post. Midway, MDW, is in the city between Central Avenue and Cicero Avenue south of 55th St. adjacent to the World Famous Baby Doll Polka Club! It can only accommodate 737 and DC 9/MD 80 or smaller commercial jet aircraft. When the 707 began service, O’Hare Field, then known as Orchard Field began large scale commercial operation. It is built on a giant swamp along with the entire surrounding area, but enough of the hydrology lesson! Just as the port of Los Angeles and a portion of Terminal Island, are the city of Los Angeles connected through the city of Long Beach by what is now interstate 110 (formerly California Highway 11-“), so too, O’Hare airport is connected to the city via interstate 90, A.k.a. the Kennedy Expressway. Also, just as is the case in Los Angeles, every freeway in Chicago is a mad traffic jam for 18 to 20 hours per day. The Blue Line train, known locally as the “L”, which connects O’Hare to downtown, makes between 15 and 20 stops along the route to the downtown area, taking pretty close to an hour or so to get to the downtown area. My personal, private, executive, Jewish attorney, and close personal friend, lives a block east of the John Hancock Center. We have been going to the Indy 500 every year for some 35+ years. So I fly into Chicago quite often. I am from the western suburbs in DuPage county, so I am very close to O’Hare airport colon so I am very familiar with the procedure.

[@rogerpenske2411]

The Chicago expressway and toll road systems, have not changed very much since they were built in the early and mid-1960s, sir much to in adequate to handle the ginormous traffic load. But I will give the road construction mafia (And it is a mob controlled industry) it’s due, the toll roads are in excellent shape and for the most part in all concrete. Interstate 294, interstate 355, and interstate 88 are all excellent road surfaces

[@Daniel-wc8bd]

In Chile, Balmaceda airport in Coyhaique, is 55 km from the city, located just 2 km away from the border with Argentina

[@eleanorheptinstall5354]

I've been through Memmingen Airport, it's a good 2 hour bus journey away from Munich. But you can also get an affordable intercity bus to Zurich or a train to Stuttgart via Ulm. So there is at least public transportation options (just make sure to pre-book the bus, can be very busy). As for Kuala Lumpur, there are buses and a train, is actually a cheaper transfer option through the LCC terminal (eg. Air Asia) compared to Singapore Changi as well as having affordable luggage storage and good amenities.

[@tt-ew7rx]

I use Southampton Airport to travel to the Southampton University's main (Highfield) site, and the airport is actually within walking distance (40 min comfortable stroll)! I really prefer walking this route than taxi or bus if there is time.

[@fredskronk]

Think RyanAir used to market Malö Sturup as Copenhagen some years ago. Not only is it quite far away; It’s also in a different country! :)

[@ivarnordlkken8082]

Same with Basel airport. It's in France, not Switzerland. Btw, it's Malmö.

[@andrewjones-productions]

Narita used to be called Tokyo International Airport, but has since officially dropped Tokyo from its name given its location in the north-eastern part of Chiba Prefecture. Of course, it still primarily serves Tokyo and that is its main purpose but was also designed to be far from the capital for national security reasons. Amongst the major two, natural disasters are said to be top of the list in order to ensure the transportation of emergency relief when (not if) a large earthquake or a major eruption of Mt. Fuji occurs. The second reason being at the time of proposals for the airport being that the cold war threat of a Soviet attack as well as that of North Korea, with which Japan still does not have diplomatic relations with was considered to be very real. There is of course then China. It is also worth noting that whilst Russia (the successor of the USSR) and Japan have diplomatic relations, a formal peace treaty to end the Second World War is yet to be agreed upon and signed. The main reason for which being in the eyes of the Japanese, the occupation of the Northern Territories off of the large island of Hokkaido. As far as far away airports go, I think Hiroshima Airport is particularly far from the city. However, the airport is still within the boundaries of Hiroshima Prefecture and since the city and prefecture share the same name as their prefectural capital, then it does at least make sense. Other prefectures that share the same name as their capitals are, Saitama, Akita, Nagano, Osaka, Kyoto, Aomori, Yamagata, Fukushima, Niigata, Toyama, Gifu, Fukui, Tottori, Wakayama, Yamaguchi, Kagoshima, Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Miyazaki, Kumamoto, Kochi, Tokushima, Okayama, Shizuoka, Chiba, Nara, Oita. Oita, used to have a hovercraft service between the outlaying airport and city in order to provide a quicker and more direct access the bay. I believe that this service is no longer in existence, thus making the airport effectively further away.

[@TransportWorldTV]

Brussels Charleroi airport lies 42km from Brussels centrum.

[@larsvd5354]

In Belgium the second airport is Charleroi "Brussels South". Its an hour drive from Brussels and literally on the other side of the country

[@gilangbayurakasiwi99]

There are three airports in Indonesia that are the furthest from the downtown, they are Yogyakarta, Kualanamu, and Kertajati International Airports. Yogyakarta International Airport takes an hour drive to the city through the conventional road, but luckily, taking the freeway to the city would be cutting 30 minutes to get through to downtown while taking the airport train will take 40 minutes to Yogyakarta station, Kertajati International Airport however would take an hour drive to the city if the freeway to Bandung opens and this one will be Cileunyi-WJIA Expressway. Kualanamu International Airport is no different with the YIA, passengers still take an hour drive to downtown by the freeway and 33 minutes by taking the airport train.

[@arnaldodellivenneridomingo2537]

Viracopos International Airport is São Paulo secondary facility for international flights (like Gatwick) and it takes 1h20m to reach.

[@peterwilliams6289]

Taipei airport is "only" 48km from Taipei, but it's a memorably exciting (ie terrifying) drive in a taxi that seems to go on forever.

[@djbobointhemix]

I flew a few years ago to Oslo Rygge airport, witch is 65 km away from Oslo but the furthest has to be Skavsta, serving Stockholm

[@franwex]

For me the farthest from city was Medellin in Colombia. The airport was about an hour away without traffic.

[@aravindbachu5502]

Bangalore. The airport is 50Km from city centre, but will take anywhere between 1-4 hours to reach the city center, depending on your luck.

[@MarcoTheMediterranean]

I’ve flown out of Beauvais once. It involve an uncomfortably early morning and a rather nauseating and very long bus ride.

[@todortodorov940]

Berlin-Tempelhof (no longer operational). It takes 13 mins on a bicycle to the city center (Brandenburg Gate).

[@anderslarsen6009]

That must be Luton, Gatwick and Stansted. I also think that Stockholm Arlanda and Oslo Gardermoen is located far away from the city centres.

[@simeonstoyanov8534]

Brussels South Charleroi Airport, the place from where I booked one of the cheapest flight tickets during expensive periods and at the same time really far from everything and hard to reach. (At least in my case)

[@MarsastheCat]

I’ve done Narita, KL, and Paris Beauvais. Closest airport was Tallinn- as an experiment I walked to the edge of the city in around 35 minutes.

[@RoyalMela]

Boston Logan is also very close. Too bad, there is water everywhere between Boston and Logan airport. You can take a ferry and you'll reach downtown in total of 3km. San Jose, CA also is very much in downtown, same as San Diego.

[@janellek21]

Paramaribo's airport is in the middle of the jungle about 50 miles south of the city. It takes about 90 minutes to travel between the airport and the city.

[@Jerram89]

Brisbane West Wellcamp airport is 150km west of Brisbane in the regional city of Toowoomba. There are actually scheduled flights to there from Brisbane International Airport…

[@bombadjedi8177]

New York is a state so the airport isn’t necessarily serving the city of New York.

[@O550Sn94]

It is still located in a region of the New York City's metropolitan area though.

[@sinair285]

What about Buffalo?

[@TheSjuris]

@@sinair285 Buffalo is closer to Toronto then NYC

[@O550Sn94]

@@sinair285 That's different. Buffalo is more closer to Toronto, Canada than is from NYC. However, Buffalo's airport is just called as "Buffalo International Airport" (I think).

[@syxepop]

New York is also the name to the City and a County (Manhattan is officially New York County). That designation to Stewart was made to attract the "budget airlines" who would consider any of the other 3 known airports as "too expensive" (airlines have to pay $$$ for airport maintenance for each passenger they bring to the airport). Right now Islip (ISP, 53.6 mi or 1h 21m E of Manhattan) in Central Long Island is the closest* non-international airport NYC has. * closest in distance, about the same in travel time than Stewart

[@kylebergan]

Brisbane west welcamp airport is 160km away from Brisbane in a place called Toowoomba which has recently been renamed Toowoomba welcamp airport

[@TripleS24Squad]

For me, the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK) in Jakarta, Indonesia is located 34 km west from the city centre. Driving to the airport can take about half an hour...

[@ryanking2155]

Speaking of Tokyo, there’s Ibaraki airport. It’s 85km and about 1hrs45mins away from the city center. It actually planned to give itself the name Tokyo Ibaraki Airport but there was too much opposition. Nevertheless, budget airlines in nearby countries (like Spring Airlines in China) refer to it as Tokyo.

[@jiggnfm]

San Francisco's Airport (SFO) is actually in San Mateo county which takes a 20-30 min drive to downtown San Francisco, or you can take BART

[@argoitzrazkin2572]

Brussels south (in not even in the middle of nowhere, is actually next to another city, Charleroi).

[@tjsynkral]

It's hard to top Rockford-Chicago airport which is 85 miles out from Chicago and only serves Allegiant.

[@willhuang2019]

There is also an example in Lanzhou, China, the largest and the capital city in Gansu Province (In the Northwestern Region). It's airport (Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport) has a distance around 70 km/43 mi away from its city center. The road connecting the city and the airport has to go through a mountain range between, since Lanzhou is situated within a river valley (The Yellow River) and is far from any plains nearby.

[@kungenjb1555]

I live in Stockholm and have visited skavsta a few times, I’ve flown the classic 6:10 wizz air departure to Warsaw…

[@mannim7143]

Frankfurt Hahn Airport not only is far away, it's not even in the same state. It's like marketing an Airport as Houston East, based in Louisiana...

[@airbus_a320neo]

It should be called Trier airport or at least Trier/Frankfurt airport since its MUCH closer to it than its to fra

[@EREJones]

I was recently thinking about the opposite of this - that is to say, airports closest to the place they serve. I love the small airports in Northern Europe, like Bodø, Akureyri and Reykjavik-Domestic, where you're just a short walk

[@pazdziaja]

Warsaw-Radom airport in the making is definietly gonna make a list :d

[@shirshenduroy]

There was a recent article I read about how Ryanair was planning to shift to the Radom airport if Modlin increased their current landing fees. So, there's a high chance that it can see some operations in the recent future.

[@pazdziaja]

@@shirshenduroy That would be unfortunate since WMI is the closest reliable gateway for the whole northeast Poland. I've read quite the opposite, no-one seems to be taking RDO seriously, neither Ryanair nor Wizzair 💁‍♀️

[@shirshenduroy]

@@pazdziaja true. I'll try to find the link and share it here. It speculated that Wizz air might shift to Modlin to decrease costs and Ryanair will shift all the way down to Radom to keep costs as low as possible. It's all about bargaining and who will blink first. 😛

[@ckc8176]

Hi! Good video!

[@alicjagrohs2297]

Memmingen Airport is also an old military base I believe, and it has a tiny terminal and one bus carrier to Munich. When we had a flight at 8am we had to take the bus at 3am to be at the airport on time, the later buses would be too late.

[@StuBobsGhost]

Oslo Torp Sandefjord back in 2006. Followed by two bus rides to get to Gardemoen to the north of Oslo. Won't be making that mistake again.

[@paolocalvo4804]

MLB in Florida is marketed as Melbourne Orlando whilst being about an hour and a half drive

[@rafaelwilks]

1:11 at about 100 miles, that's long enough for a 21-minute scheduled flight; that's the distance from IAD to CHO, the shortest route Dulles serves!

[@saveddijon]

I'm curious as to how Narita is only a "50 minute drive" away. Last time I did it, the "Airport Limousine" took over 4 hours in classic Tokyo traffic. Each way.

[@YYPeh]

KLIA. 2.5h(150mins) from getting off the plane to the city. And the flight was from Singapore. If you include the fact that I have to be at the Singapore airport 2h before scheduled departure time, the whole trip took about 4.5h by air. It’s faster if I went there by coach(bus) or drive over on my own which is roughly 4h. 3h if I don’t stop for a rest in the middle of the expressway/highway.

[@RoyalMela]

Furthest for me are Kansai (Osaka), but that Osaka bay has several large cities and Kansai serves all of them. Still, Kansai - Osaka is 49km away. Reykjavik airport is in Keflavik. Former WWll US air force base taken into civil use. 51km from downtown. Milan Malpensa is 50km away from Milan.

[@techwiz81]

Furthest away airport I’ve ever been to was Keflavik in Iceland, 30 miles from Reykjavik

[@pazdziaja]

Abbotsford (YXX) is recognised to be serving Vancouver Metro Area, though it's 70 km from downtown Vancity.

[@michaelbeh]

Bangkok, Thailand has 2 airports namly: Don Meuang International Airport and Suvarnabhumi International Airport are both located in the neighbouring proviences next to Bangkok. Don Meuang International Airport is at Nontaburi and Suvarnabhumi International Airport is at Samutprakarn.

[@Bad.Example]

The worst for me must be Charleroi "Brussels" south. It sits at ~70km from the city and it takes around 1h to drive. I've done the drive many a time, seeing how it offers reasonable priced flights to many parts of europe.

[@eliastravelvlog6517]

I agree with KLIA in Malaysia. Its really far from the city center. Its a good thing they have high speed trains that connects the City to the Airport.

[@DylanSargesson]

Lydd "London Ashford" Airport is is closer to mainland France (about 30 miles) than it is to central London (about 60 miles). And also relatively far from the town of Ashford (about 20 miles).

[@XBLMastrodicasa]

Not sure if this counts, but Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (KMHT) Is located about 50 miles north of Boston in Manchester, NH.