Timeline for What is the most remote airport from the center of the city it supposedly serves?
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| Jul 30, 2019 at 9:57 | comment | added | CMaster | I've seen an advert targeted at East ASia before advertising flights to "London Manchester" airport, although to be fair, the airport itself never made that claim. | |
| May 1, 2019 at 12:23 | comment | added | Fahad Sadah | There was also the London Prestwick Airport incident :D | |
| Apr 30, 2019 at 8:57 | comment | added | Chris H - UK | @origimbo London would be doing quite well even without Lydd given London Southend Airport around 50 km ENE. I haven't checked a straight-line distance but Google walking directions say it's 100 miles from London Oxford. But Lydd's own website has "London Ashford Airport" in the logo, and more importantly it seems that it's listed by ICAO as "Lydd/London Ashford" (according to plenty of secondary sources). A different ChrisH to the one above | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 21:34 | comment | added | David Richerby |
@ChrisH I'm not sure. If you go to the airport's website, the logo says "LYDD London Ashford Airport" but the domain is www.lydd-airport.co.uk and the text only ever talks about "Lydd Airport", "Flying into Lydd" and even "fly owners with their pets directly to Lydd Airport [...] rather than to busy London Airports." Even the operator doesn't call the airport "London Ashford".
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| Apr 29, 2019 at 20:37 | comment | added | Chris H | @gparyani given that “London Ashford Airport Ltd” is a subsidiary company which appears neither to have nor to have ever had any purpose other than running this single airport - which is closer to Calais than it is to London - I think you’re being rather generous to suggest that’s a meaningful difference. | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 20:21 | comment | added | gparyani | Doesn't count. "London Ashford Airport" only refers to the operator, e.g. "Heathrow Airport Holdings". | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 19:20 | comment | added | origimbo | Given that "London Oxford Airport" is about 100km from London in virtually the other direction, there may be a booby prize of the city with the widest airport name catchment. | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 18:17 | history | answered | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |