What's the most obscure airport you've visited?

[RooFlyer]

YGPR

Done that one too . I sold the Gunpowder Copper Mine to Aberfoyle in 1995 (on behalf of its owner!). Lots of due diligence visits.

 

[TomVexille]

It's a toss up between YPDA and YLEC but I'm sure @TomVexille has been to YLEC

Actually I have not.

But I did think of four more that I would be extremely surprised if any AFFer has ever been to.

1. KJOT - Joliet Regional Airport
2. KARR - Aurora Municipal Airport
3. KLOT - Lewis University Airport
4. C09 - Morris Municipal Airport James R. Washburn Field

And YJAC is Jacinth-Ambrosia in SA

 

[oznflfan]

Not real obscure, but Mulu Airport in Malaysian Borneo.

 

[jpp42]

On a slightly different note, I've flown from
RSE - Rose Bay, Sydney to Newcastle (Hunter River) - not an obscure location but I wonder how many in my generation would have flown on the scheduled commercial service from RSE to Newcastle. (I need to find my boarding pass to remember what code they used for the Hunter River "airport."). This service unfortunately didn't last very long, a few months only I think.

Most obscure commercial airports I've been to is probably IDA - Idaho Falls, Idaho, US, and White Plains New York (HPN), but thrse may not actually be that unique for this audience. I'm not counting airports with non commercial service in general aviation planes - have been to a dozen or two of those around Australia and US but not sure they count.

 

[burmans]

Ovalau (Fiji)

 

[Steady]

Ovalau (Fiji)

I’ve got a flight to YAF on about 8 weeks

 

[featheast]

Kingscote Airport (KGC) on Kangaroo Island, where I was flying Rex to Adelaide then transit into Melbourne on Qantas. There was no security check (shocking) at Kingscote, and on arrival I can just connecting to the Melbourne flight without any check.
That was the first few years in Australia, and I was like totally shocked at the lack of security down here.

 

[JessicaTam]

I think my most obscure AU airport would be Shark Bay in WA (MJK)

And overseas it would be Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan (FRU) back in the Avianca trick fares day. And obscure because I arrived without a visa and still managed to enter the country (for a few hours in any case).

 

[Daver6]

For me, its Man Airport, MJC, in western Cote' d'Ivoire.

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followed by Chibougamau, YMT, central Quebec

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Both charters to mining projects.

HBA should count as obscure for you. No air-bridges

 

[AIRwin]

Waterford in August 2015, Ipota and Tanna in October 2019

 

[VPS]

It's a toss up between YPDA and YLEC but I'm sure @TomVexille has been to YLEC

YPDA Parndana on KI and YLEC - Leigh Creek

 

[burmans]

I think my most obscure AU airport would be Shark Bay in WA (MJK)

And overseas it would be Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan (FRU) back in the Avianca trick fares day. And obscure because I arrived without a visa and still managed to enter the country (for a few hours in any case).

No visa required these days. Though I do have a similar story of arriving in Warsaw without a visa and managing to talk my way in. Had routed via Rome to get a visa there but plane was late.
Bishkek is the start of my Stan’s tour, shame that Avianca trick no longer works.

 

[Guvner]

TIQ. Tinian airport in the Mariana Islands.

 

[Austman]

Considering there are actual scheduled services on quite large commercial aircraft (Dash), for me, Tufi International (TFI) was rather basic.

And scary:



Take-off is over a cliff!

Tufi Airport - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[smiliemonster]

JAV - Ilulissat, Greenland

 

[RooFlyer]

HBA should count as obscure for you.

If only I could make it so ...

 

[openseat]

Probably CHY - Taro, just off the tip of Choisuel, with special mention to GZO (Gizo) which is an island (Nusatupe) airport, you can only get there by boat. Both in the Solomon Islands.

 

[eric2011]

YTLH. Toogoolawah, QLD. Used mainly by a skydiving outfit

 

[Bundy Bear]

2 come to mind

ACF Archerfield in Brisbane flew there from Brisbane on a non scheduled flight.

GTE Groote Eylandt flew on a round trip from Darwin for no other reason to see how far it was.

 

[Cossie]

Simao, Yunnan, SYM a long time ago. The old airport in Kunming, literally 5 minutes from downtown, KMG, long gone, now redeveloped.