Talk:Airport

message: What is the part of an airport called that passengers use to get in the airplane?  It's like a ramp. 
:I've usually heard it referred to as a jetway. -eric 08:40, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)
The part of an airport that passengers use to get in the airplane is a Gate, when boarding that s an Airbridge.Djmckee1 17:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old talk 

message: When I clicked on the link to Königsberg, I was directed to the page of Kaliningrad, Russia, which was is the past known as Königsberg. However, when I visited the disambiguation page for Königsberg I was informed that there is in fact a town in Bavaria, Germany (this Königsberg). Which place is the location metioned on the page?
80.229.16.243 15:39, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Solved, if you look in the German version of this article it says the airport in question is what was then Flughafen Devau near Königsberg, East Prussia, and is now Kaliningrad Devau Airport near Kaliningrad. I fixed the link. This is caused by the US habit of putting "XXX, Germany". No German, or other European would do that, as Königsberg is obviously a German name, if there are more than one, they would most likely all be in Germany! If it was in a French-speaking country, for example, it would be called Montréal. TiffaF (talk) 23:45, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Königsberg 

message: While not integral to airport functionality, architecture and design of airports is a major characteristic.  It serves as a way for countries to show off to int'l visitors.  There are a lot of famous terminals amongst architects, including the TWA terminal designed in the 60's (I think), and of course Dulles is widely known.  There are numerous others.  Perhaps we could rope some architecture wikipedians into helping out. —thames 15:27, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Architecture 

message: Can anyone translate anything useful from the French or
,Portuguese (looks like it has a lot of useful info)
Falphin 20:26, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Translate 

message: Here's one that you could use http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:ChennaiAirport.jpg --Planemad 09:35, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Pics

message: There seems to be a problem with the following:
"One of the largest landing fields in the world is at the Kennedy Space Center, ... and the paving thickness is 1.6 in (406 mm) at the center."
1.6 inches is not very thick at all, and 406mm = 1.3 feet.  So does anyone know the right answer?  Bunthorne 18:12, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the reference to the KSC runway.  It's not the longest runway, and given that we are obviously missing some correct facts, no point in holding onto this tidbit of questionable notability. —Cleared as filed. 06:23, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Conversion Error?

message: Airbase <== Airfield (Aerodrome, Airdrome) ==> Airport ==> International Airport 
 
Many US or Russian, maybe Chinese or Indian, domestic airports are very large too, and situated near major highways and have big hotels. It's not the fact that it's International that matters, but merely its size. European capital cities may all have international airports, but I'm sure there are some US (etc.) cities that are larger than some of them but do not have customs facilities. 
Originally the British and the French (who had the world's first air force) called it an "aerodrome." The American Army somehow blanched at that "ae" and called a military base an "airdrome" in WWII. By the time the USAF got some power, they called it an "air base." (The U.S. Navy called it a "Naval Air Station.") When "airport" became the default term without a second thought, the use of the world "airport" for a military airbase became a back-formation. Some clarification of this is needed. In the origin of the word, an airport is a port, that is, a commercial facility. Experimental facilities (Area 51 comes to mind, though I'm not a fantast) definitely aren't airports. --Sobolewski 16:13, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Area 51 is definitely an Airport. It actually has several scheduled commuter flights daily to Vegas on a private defense airline (see: Area_51#Area_51_commuters). So yeah, put some serious thought into the problem of naming/classification because it's quite complex and really difficult to boil down. -User:Lommer | talk 19:41, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Heirarchy of terms (start at Airfield)

message: No need to keep adding to the list of airports named after people, it is too long as it is. Here are a bunch more, maybe make an article named List of airports named after politicians or something. King Abdulaziz International Airport, Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Ben Gurion International Airport, Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport, Atatürk International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Indira Gandhi International Airport, Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport, Ninoy Aquino International Airport, or Charles de Gaulle International Airport. I'm sure there are 1000 more, we don't need them all in this article. --Dual Freq 11:06, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. There are just way too many.  There should be a separate "list" article that this article should point to.  --Coolcaesar 16:22, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

text: I will continue to revert the addition of airports to the airports named after politicians list, specifically, Ninoy Aquino International Airport. As I have listed above, there are many more and the four listed there now have a good international spread. Does the list need to have one airport for each continent? One each G8 nation? One each country? I think not. There is a list of airports, please add your favorite airport there. --Dual Freq 11:09, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Airport name list

message: I'm removing the paragraph claiming that Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport has shortest paved runway in the world. It is located on the island of Saba, in the Netherlands Antilles. It would be difficult to be certain of finding the world's shortest paved runway, but it would certainly be considerably shorter than 1,748 feet.  Just a quick glance finds a paved 1,600 runway at Tracy, California (CA54). David 22:30, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shortest paved runway? 

message: *Furnace Creek Airport, Death Valley (very low and hot)
*Williams Field, Antarctica (very cold)
*Qamdo Bamda Airport, Tibet (highest and longest civilian airport)
217.86.40.254 23:54, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Al Ain International Airport, UAE seems to be as hot. It was used for A380 testing. 217.86.8.76 12:11, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Looks like Princess Juliana International Airport, on the Dutch side of Saint Martin. --Dual Freq 01:51, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extreme airports 

message: I find it a little hard to believe that plans take off and land into the wind "to achieve maximum performance". Landing into the wind makes sense, as the added wind resistance would help slow the plane down, but surely taking off would best be performed going with the wind to achieve a slightly faster take off? I don't know enough about this subject to change it. --Bmhcjs 23:42, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wind Indicators 

message: This article implies incorrectly that airport and airfield are synonyms. An airfield is any place where aircraft take-off and land, but an airport aditionally requires at least some of the facilities expected of a port such as dedicated facilities for passenger or cargo handling, refuelling, traffic control, customs etc. Curiously, 'Aerodrome' has a separate entry. Treesmill 19:45, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Airport vs Airfield 

message: When did airports start to resemble what they are today?  This isn't really covered in the history section.  It talks about early airports and such, but not when they became a common mode of transportation and when they became very popular.
:Airports have been changing since the early days that they were created. I don't think there are really any distinct points of time where airports have changed dramatically. The only semi-related thing I can think of is the introduction of the De Havilland Comet and Boeing 707 because they were the first jet aircraft. But this did not instantanesouly change the way airports functioned. The only other thing I can think of is 9/11 and it's impact on security at airports. --Pilotboi | talk 05:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: I am proposing that a seperate article be created on Airport Signage. I believe that there is enough content available that a complete article can be made on this topic, including detailed pictures. If anyone has any comment on this proposal, please post. Also, if anyone would like to help out (giving that most people think it's a good idea), please let me know. Thanks. --Pilotboi | talk 05:38, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Airport Signage 

message: Currently both Sydney Airport (1920) and Tempelhof International Airport (1923) make the claim to being "the world's oldest commercial airport", but S. Darius and S. Girėnas Airport in Lithuania, est. 1915, is older than both (although it's only in GA use at the moment) and only claims to be "one of the oldest". Is there an older one yet still in operation? Jpatokal 15:31, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Update: College Park Airport (1909), run but none other than Wilbur Wright, seems to have a pretty firm claim on the top spot, although it's also a GA airport. Jpatokal 15:34, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oldest airport 

message: Hi, I've updated this section. I admit I'm not the best writer so I am more than happy for someone to go through and edit it for me. I removed the original section as I felt it did not represent a world wide view (seemed very US centric, and I actually suspect article was based on the policy of one specific US based airline), there where some clear inaccuracies. Such as “In the rest of the world, the lounges are not open to purchase” – which is funny, because I am a member of such a lounge here in Australia, further more if I want to pay $35 extra per flight on the competing airline, I can access their lounge too, and yet I only flew with them 3 times last year, and none at all this year. Harvyk (talk) 00:23, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  VIP and Premium services 

message: As far as I know, and I spent half a year searching, the OpenFlights Airport Database is the best free (open-source & gratis) source of airport data out there.  Any objections to adding it to airport directories and/or external links? Jpatokal (talk) 07:12, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, OurAirports whups OF's butt. Jpatokal (talk) 11:14, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  OpenFlights Airport Database 

message: On articles about small airports, would adding a picture from Microsoft Flight Simulator X of the airport in question be good enough?  I really would like to overhaul the Airports in Maine without pictures, and that is the only thing I could think of. Draconiator (talk) 16:51, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: My thought is 'no' but we'll see what others think. Famartin (talk) 00:14, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, not least because screenshots from MFS are subject to copyright. Jpatokal (talk) 01:52, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about airport editing. 

message: While working on the articles images to fix bunched up edit links, I moved a number of images to a gallery section. The images I moved were all images that did not relate to the section of text where they were located. HarryHenryGebel (talk) 17:15, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: According to NASA/CAFE, the current airport-system would need to be remade, so as to made allot of smaller airports (with little infrastructure), rather than fewer, larger ones. This would be necessairy to accomodate the vision of personal air vehicles. See
http://cafefoundation.org/v2/pdf_tech/NASA.Aeronautics/ThirdWaveTech.pdf
Include in article,
91.182.199.156 (talk) 07:11, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Regional airports

message: This is my knee-jerk thought.
Please break this into paragraphs that will make it easier to read and to go back and re-read.
In particular the IATA paragraph is daunting; I lost the thread several times.  
I—Preceding unsigned comment added by Roger S Johnson (talk • contribs) 16:09, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing 

message: I think it could be better organized. Thoughts? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:22, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section structure  

message: I don't think this map is accurate at all.  Just glancing at the western US reveals many missing airports.  Maybe this is supposed to represent airports of a certain class.Famartin (talk) 00:12, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Airport distribution map 

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message: I think the Traffic Patterns section needs some help, but I'm not enough of an expert to provide such help.
Schoolbus777 (talk) 14:53, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: My vote would rather be for eliminating that section entirely. It only concerns small airfields and only VFR; while this article is mostly about the big airports that mainly handle commercial air transport. Confusing, to say the least. What Airbus or Boeing is going to report "Callsign XYZ, entering right-hand downwind for the 27, 1500 feet?" or such? :) Or, at the very least, it should get a pre-amble pointing out the VFR aspect. Jan olieslagers (talk) 15:48, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Traffic Patterns 

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message: Hi, my friend is having a hard time hunting for an airport that he would like to be at. Should I be a good BUDdy and read reviews to make a suggestion?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.129.159.209 (talk) 19:11, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hunting for an Airport 

message: Hey airport editors! I have a question about landing fees in Saudi Arabia  Could you help me? Thanks! Geographyinitiative (talk) 00:51, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Landing fees 

message: There is a proposal to change (or remove) the links to "grass" in the runway surface field of airport infoboxes. Please see Template talk:Infobox airport#The meaning of grass. – Uanfala (talk) 11:19, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grass as a runway surface