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Cities by Airports

Can you name the metro area served by each group of airports?
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Last updated: December 5, 2019
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First submittedOctober 16, 2012
Times taken72,180
Average score65.0%
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Airports
City
Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton
London
JFK, LaGuardia
New York City
Arlanda, Bromma, Skavsta
Stockholm
Midway, O'Hare
Chicago
Linate, Malpensa
Milan
Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo
Moscow
Charles de Gaulle, Orly, Beauvais
Paris
Congonhas, Guarulhos
São Paulo
Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang
Bangkok
George Bush, Hobby
Houston
Airports
City
Atatürk, Sabiha Gökçen
Istanbul
OR Tambo, Lanseria
Johannesburg
Marco Polo, Treviso
Venice
Fiumicino Airport, Ciampino
Rome
Narita, Haneda
Tokyo
Sky Harbor
Phoenix
Barajas
Madrid
Reagan, Dulles
Washington DC
Schiphol
Amsterdam
Logan
Boston
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Level 27
Oct 15, 2012
I've never heard before from an "George Bush"-Airport... aren't airports usually named after dead persons? Hm, I sure learn here daily new stuff :-)
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Level 82
Oct 4, 2016
This differs a lot between countries. In US things are named after living persons all the time. In my country it's a big no-no
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Level 75
May 3, 2019
Wrong- they are normally named for dead donkeys
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Level 42
Mar 10, 2021
Little Rock airport is named after Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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Level 59
Jun 6, 2021
well now hes dead
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Level 67
Nov 15, 2021
"You whacked him on the head

Sure, now he's dead

It makes me just see red

You are such a brute

To murder that old coot

You homicidal bastard, now he's really dead"

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Level 36
Sep 24, 2021
Defo is!!
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Level 52
Mar 20, 2024
It was named after George Bush (Sr) when he was still alive, yes. There's even a bronze statue of him in one of the terminals.

On the plus side, the Johnson space center (also in Houston) was named after LBJ died.

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Level 30
Oct 15, 2012
20/20 with 2:46 left first time. And tralala is correct, orLy is the correct spelling for Paris-Orly airport.
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Level 64
Oct 15, 2012
Luton airport is not part of London...Luton is just outside London and is a separate town. You could have Stanstead instead.
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Level 47
Jun 6, 2013
Luton is still a London Airport. Stansted is further away from Central London than Luton.
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Level 37
Nov 6, 2015
Yeah I agree Heathrow, Stanstead, Gatwick and Luton are London airports
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Level 35
Nov 17, 2017
Don't forget London City Airport as well :)

Technically only Heathrow and City are in London... Gatwick is in Surrey/West Sussex, Luton is in Bedfordshire and Stansted is in Essex, but they are all considered London airports, though interestingly not all of their airport codes represent this (LHR, LGW, LCY, STN and LTN repectively).

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Level 74
Aug 2, 2017
How about City airport, which is closer than any of the ones mentioned? Stansted can be added as well of course.
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Level 73
Nov 17, 2017
Whilst I agree that London City is certainly more central than Luton, perhaps it wouldn't be suitable as a clue for this quiz.
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Level 59
Aug 2, 2017
Stansted is as far from London as Luton is. Following your logic, Gatwick wouldn't be included either (it's in Sussex, a county that doesn't even border Greater London!). Luton is officially called London-Luton airport - it serves London.
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Level 70
Feb 27, 2022
10% further
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Level 65
Oct 19, 2017
Stansted - no 'a' please!
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Level 74
Nov 18, 2017
Question says "served by" not containing. Luton is therefore fine, however uncomfortable it is(to me too) being referred to as London Luton or similar
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Level 25
Apr 4, 2014
100%!
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Level 52
Aug 11, 2014
Nice to see Phoenix up there. My home. :)
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Level 68
Nov 26, 2023
My condolences.
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Level 68
Dec 4, 2014
Thanks Jimmy Eat World for having a great song called, "Goodbye Sky Harbor"!!!
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Level 83
Jan 12, 2015
Why, oh why, did I type Constantinople three times and complain that the quiz was wrong? *smh*
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Level 74
May 9, 2015
That's nobody's business but the Turks'.
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Level 36
Nov 18, 2017
::thumbs up::
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Level 35
May 9, 2015
SKY HARBOR BEST AIRPORT EVER! PHOENIX CITY 6TH LARGEST CITY IN THE US! LET'S GO PHOENIX!
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Level 89
May 9, 2015
Ever had to transfer through Sky Harbor? Worst airport ever for that. Anytime I can avoid going through Phoenix, I will.
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Level 37
Nov 6, 2015
Hehe I think you totally broke his heart :)
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Level 75
Nov 17, 2017
My daughter used to live in Phoenix and I always had good experiences when I flew there. Once I needed a wheelchair and I was treated like royalty by the staff. That was several years ago, maybe it's different now. Actually, I can't think of a domestic airport where I wasn't treated well and I've been to Logan, JFK, LaGuardia, Lambert, Denver, San Francisco, LAX, San Jose, Memphis, Salt Lake City, and Lihue. But I always try to time flights very early in the morning or on days of the week when they aren't as busy.
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Level 45
Mar 21, 2016
There's actually a Sky Harbor airport in Duluth, Minnesota, and one in Sultan, Washington, as well.
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Level 32
May 19, 2020
Ok then?
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Level 70
Feb 27, 2022
Only in a world in which Singapore changi does not exist.
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Level 65
May 9, 2015
The only ones I knew before taking this quiz were New York, Chicago, London, and Boston; the rest were just guesses. By the way, couldn't Newark airport also be counted as one of New York's airports? Even though it's in New Jersey, I've always heard it be considered a part of New York City's metro area and one of the three airports there.
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Level 79
May 9, 2015
Dorval, Mirabel?
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Level 74
May 11, 2015
Mirabel has not handled a scheduled passenger flight since 2004. The airline terminal was demolished last November.
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Level 85
Nov 17, 2017
Hey, the quiz didn't say name great airports.
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Level 54
Sep 23, 2015
Billings should be accepted for Logan. See flybillings.com :)
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Level 74
Nov 17, 2017
Agreed! I wrote Billings first too!
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Level ∞
Nov 2, 2021
Billings will work now.
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Level 51
May 9, 2017
Come on! Where is Atlanta? It's the largest airport in the world!
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Level 59
Aug 2, 2017
Neither are the second and third busiest airports in the world (Beijing and Dubai). This isn't about the largest airports in the world (clearly!).
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Level 51
Nov 17, 2017
Buuuut if it's a quiz about airports, those cities ought to be on here. There are gimmees like NYC and London, after all.
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Level 76
Nov 19, 2017
It's in Georgia (the American state, not the Eurasian country)
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Level 70
May 13, 2019
It's not a comprehensive quiz, guy. And it's not a quiz on the busiest airports in the world either. There will be other quizzes. Atlanta may or may not feature in one of them. It'll be okay.
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Level 33
Aug 3, 2017
Did anyone else try Wolverine for "Logan" airport just out of fun?
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Level 45
Nov 17, 2017
No
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Level 33
Aug 3, 2017
ah, just a little correction: Congonhas airport in the STATE of São Paulo is not in São Paulo CITY as this quiz explicitly suggests but in the city of...CONGONHAS. Search your stuff carefully to confirm but trust me, I'm from Salvador, Brazil and I've been to Congonhas, both the city and the airport.
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Level 68
Nov 17, 2017
So, being 5 km away from the city center doesn't count for METRO AREA?
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Level 43
Nov 15, 2021
What if some cases no? Although it’s really impossible lol
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Level 60
Nov 17, 2017
What are you talking about ? There's no city of Congonhas ? The airport is named after the neighborhood where it is located, formerly called Vila Congonhas, property of the descendants of Lucas Antônio Monteiro de Barros (1767–1851), Viscount of Congonhas do Campo. It is right in THE MIDDLE OF Sao Paulo, so in the middle that is actually unable to grow and therefore Guarulhos Airport (actually the name of that airport is Mario Covas) was built in the neighboring city of Guarulhos. And trust me, I am from Sao Paulo.
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Level 43
Nov 15, 2021
Isn’t Mário Covas the name of Viracopos Airport (Campinas)? Not Guarulhos, which is Governador André Franco Montoro.

And Congonhas is on the city of São Paulo. It was planned to be away from the center, but the growing of the city, made the airport be squished on the buildings. Trust me, I’m from Belo Horizonte, and although I never went to São Paulo (only for make a stopover on Guarulhos, from Confins to Ezeiza on Buenos Aires), I’m getting interested about the airports and these stuff.

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Level 81
Nov 17, 2017
I think this would be better with the yellow box. Now you can just name big cities and hope something hits :)
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Level 65
Nov 17, 2017
Definitely only got 11, counted them 3x but score came up as 14! Gremlins?
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Level 59
Nov 17, 2017
Phoenix threw me - I was trying to think of coastal cities with a name like Sky Harbor!
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Level 48
Nov 17, 2017
Any of you all flying into "Reagan", be sure to call it "National" when speaking to a local!
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Level 82
Nov 19, 2017
Why? I'm a local. The airport's name is Reagan National. Or Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Or Washington National. Or DCA. Or Reagan. Or National. All of these names are used interchangeably and I've never observed them upsetting anyone. Apparently the name was changed in 1998. I was 19. I don't remember it happening.
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Level 73
Nov 20, 2017
Maybe 'older local' might have worked better in @philnino's comment. I fly out of Newark primarily. After 2001, its 'official' name became 'Newark Liberty International Airport'. Not one person I know or have ever met uses the word 'Liberty' except when making official announcements (eg, a flight attendant on the intercom). I think the Reagan/National interchangeability works a lot better for DCA than for EWR.
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Level 82
Nov 29, 2017
::shrug:: my dad is almost 70 years old and I've heard him call the airport both Reagan and National. My mom has lived in the area since 1953 and does the same. Never knew anyone to make a fuss over the name. Like I said, I wasn't even aware that it had changed. Though Reagan wasn't president that long ago so logically it had to.
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Level 32
Nov 19, 2017
it surprises me that more people know Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang for Bangkok and Congonhas and Guarulhos for Sao Paulo than Sky Harbor.
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Level 76
Nov 19, 2017
Why? Bangkok is a national capital and a huge tourist destination. Sao Paulo is the largest city in Brazil and one of the largest in the world. Phoenix? Meh.
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Level 82
Nov 29, 2017
I'd be one of them. Have flown out of both Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang many times each. Never been to Phoenix before. Even if that weren't true, Suvarnabhumi looks like a Thai name and would be easy to guess. Congonhas and Guarulhos are both obviously from some Portuguese-speaking country. Sky Harbor is so generic it could be literally anywhere.
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Level 61
Nov 15, 2021
Fun fact, 'Suvarnabhumi' literally means 'golden land' or 'land of gold', which is the name of a historical or mythical kingdom in Thailand, which was located nearby!
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Level 45
Nov 19, 2021
Anyone with a passing knowledge for world geography will be able to narrow down those airports based on the spelling/language of the names: regions or particular countries can be deduced, and then it's a case of naming capitals and/or major cities in those areas/countries. Sky Harbor on the other hand is in the country with more major airports than any other country (although at least the spelling of Harbor does narrow it down to the US).
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Level 44
Dec 4, 2017
Maybe add Bergamo for Milan since you also have Skavsta for Stockholm?
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Level 60
Oct 2, 2018
Too US centric with 6 US Cities......
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Level 82
Oct 2, 2018
The US is a big place with a lot of airport and air traffic. Time to get over it and move on.
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Level 82
May 13, 2019
Why aren't you complaining about all the Italian airports on here? There are three, that's half as many as the number of American airports, and yet the USA is more than 30x larger than Italy.
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Level 71
Nov 15, 2021
But Italy has around 65 million international tourists per year compared to around 80 million for the USA (or around 80%). The size of the country is not that relevant. And I am not complaining about the number of US airports on here by the way as I knew four and soon got the other two. The only answer I couldn't work out was Johannesburg
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Level 82
Nov 15, 2021
You're actually arguing that the number of Italian airports on here is justified vs. the number of American ones? Good grief some of you people... this is beyond nonsensical. 3 million people PER DAY fly in an out of US airports. The fact that Europeans cannot coexist and so their continent is incredibly Balkanized geopolitically does make the people moving about here and there on the land mass count more as people. If the US tomorrow broke up into 50 different countries then all of a sudden you could say that the country of Florida receives 80 million "international" tourists per year (the # of visiting non-Floridians in 2020), making them, by your logic, just as relevant as the entire country of Italy.

And for the record I'm also not complaining... the # of US airports here is fine. The # of Italian airports here is fine. I'm merely pointing out how absurd and obviously biased against one special country the complainers are.

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Level 82
Nov 15, 2021
does not*
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Level 39
May 3, 2019
Sky Harbor is such a pretty place
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Level 70
May 13, 2019
I prefer Sky Mall personally
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Level 65
Sep 17, 2019
Southend is now also considered a "london" airport :)
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Level 68
Apr 5, 2020
Please add Berlin airports: Tegel, Schonefeld and Brandenburg(hehe)
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Level 59
Apr 5, 2020
Hehe
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Level 43
Nov 15, 2021
Hehe...?
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Level 42
Jun 19, 2020
20/20 with 3:15 left. Im 11
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Level 68
Oct 12, 2020
As a French person, I sincerely apologise for the Beauvais airport. Nobody should have to go through that.
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Level 67
Aug 21, 2021
London is also served by Stansted, City and Southend, and Stockholm is also served by Västerås.
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Level 36
Sep 24, 2021
That was a great quiz. I got 18. Left out Madrid and Phoenix.
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Level 68
Nov 15, 2021
I strongly recommend yellow boxes are added to the quiz. It's quite easy to guess random cities and get a few.
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Level 63
Jan 24, 2023
I find it odd that you didn't include Newark Airport. It serves the NYC metro area, even though it's a state over, just like how Narita Airport serves the Tokyo metro area, even though it's a prefecture over.