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Cities you have flown to - but never actually been to

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Tskware

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Random thought on a Tuesday morning:

Just recently spent a weekend in Charlotte, NC, which I had flown through 50 times . . . but never actually been to the city (which is a really nice town, by the way). Then, I have to go to Atlanta on business next week, and honestly, I have flown to Atlanta probably 250 times, but only can remember ever actually spending any time there only twice - both about thirty years ago. Once to run in the Peachtree 10,000, and about the same time to see UK in an NCAA tournament when Sutton was the coach. I had to look up the airport, had no idea what side of town it is on.

To my knowledge, have never set foot in Dallas or Fort Worth, and have no idea where the airport is located, but I have been there about 100 times as well.

Just curious as to how many cities you have flown into but never actually been to.
 
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ukalumni00

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Charlotte is a really cool city. Atlanta traffic is horrible and is the main reason I have turned down jobs there.

For me, flown to Detroit several times but never went into the city (on purpose). Want no part of that city.
 
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Charlotte, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Amsterdam, Frankfort Germany. Those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head. Would love to see all of them to be honest.
 
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Charlotte- have some friends that recently move there going to visit and check it out Labor Day weekend.
Houston and Philly are 2 others I can think of.
 
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Tskware

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Forgot Detroit, never set foot in that city either, and have flown through there many times.
 
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LA
Houston
Memphis

Favorite airport is Denver. Very clean and easy to get around, etc.

Worst airport is Louisville. Tiny and half the time things are not open Biggest complaint is they state its an international airport. False. Just because UPS comes in and out of here doesn't mean its international. This should count for humans and not boxes. You cannot fly direct to most cities on the east coast out of here, much less out of the country. Sorry for my rant.
 
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RacerX.ksr

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Denver Is the only one I can think of. I've driven through Dallas one time, don't remember stopping.
 
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allabouttheUK

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Flown into but didn't visit:
Atlanta
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Philly
Shannon, Ireland (Emergancy landing, stuck on plane for 4+ hours)
Milan, Italy
Paris, France (horrible airport)

Flown to and visited:

Cincy
Chicago
Detroit (surprisingly awesome airport)
NYC (all three including Newark)
Orlando
Lexington
Louisville
Syracuse
Norfolk
Rome, Italy
London
Catania, Sicily
Berlin, Germany

Haven't made it very far past the arches in St. Louis...maybe in time.
 
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Boise
Minneapolis - did have an overnight layover and went to mall of America because it was next to hotel, by I don't count that as a visit
Charlotte
Amsterdam
 
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UKserialkiller

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Detroit, Tokyo, one of those hard to name places in Norway, another hard to pronounce name in Sweden. Singapore, taiwan,

All been to but never been.
 
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allabouttheUK

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ukalumni00 said:
Charlotte is a really cool city. Atlanta traffic is horrible and is the main reason I have turned down jobs there.

For me, flown to Detroit several times but never went into the city (on purpose). Want no part of that city.
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I flew into Detroit and spent about a week there waiting on my Visa. I stayed across the street from the hockey arena, and was surprised how clean the surrounding area of the city was. Guess I got lucky on where I was.
 
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Never really considered this topic, but:

Covington, KY. Caught connecting flights there many times, but never spent a night unless you want to include Cincinnati.

Grand Rapids, MI. Flew into there and drove to Holland. Did spend about 10 hours in the airport with weather delays on the flight back.

Hartford, CT.

Philly

Indianapolis

Dayton

Pittsburgh
 
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allabouttheUK

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Not to hijack the thread (haha), but I always thought it would be a cool job just flying to as many airports as possible and writing about them. Sorta like Bourdains "Layover", but never leave the airport. I have a strange fascination with airports.
 
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Kaizer Sosay

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Vancouver - flown into the airport twice…took a bus to Whistler Blackcomb to go skiing. But never spent any quality time in Vancouver.

Houston - flown in and out of there a half dozen times but I've never been outside the airport. I've stayed in Dallas a few times…but never Houston.
 
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BankerCat12 said:
LA
Houston
Memphis

Favorite airport is Denver. Very clean and easy to get around, etc.

Worst airport is Louisville. Tiny and half the time things are not open Biggest complaint is they state its an international airport. False. Just because UPS comes in and out of here doesn't mean its international. This should count for humans and not boxes. You cannot fly direct to most cities on the east coast out of here, much less out of the country. Sorry for my rant.
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Totally agree on Louisville, it's not a great airport for business travelers at all. Limited flight options to anywhere but Chicago and Atlanta and you have to connect everywhere. When I was traveling a lot for work, I found that I was flying out of Cincinnati more often than not, especially if I was going west. And heaven forbid you need something to eat past 7pm. Only redeeming quality is that it's a relatively easy airport to get through.
 
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Bangor, Maine
Ramstein, Germany
Tokyo, Japan
Denver, Colorado
Dallas, Texas
Charlotte, North Carolina
Reykjavik, Iceland
Shannon, Ireland
 
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Pittsburgh is the one that surprised me. I expected the airport to look like a monument to the industrial revolution but it was really pretty nice.
 
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Salt Lake City
Detroit

Are the only two where I've never left the airport. 99% of the time I either fly out of Atlanta or have it as my connecting airport.

I've flown into Philadelphia multiple times but I've never spent anytime in the city as I'm always going to Jersey for work.

Same with Daytona. Never actually spent any time there, but have gone in and out multiple times.
 
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ukguy78

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Pittsburgh (1x)
Detroit (6-7x, though I did have a forced overnight once at the Westin on property)
Salt Lake City (2x)
Charlotte (10x)
Tokyo Narita (3x)

Just logged my 100th airport last week.
 
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Oakland x2, Dallas, Seattle.

Never left the runway in Oakland, never left airport in the other two cities.
 
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TruBluCatFan

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Houston
Albuquerque
Phoenix
Salt Lake City
Minneapolis
Los Angeles
Newark proper.
 
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GGCAT

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Wow, i had to think about this for a while as i have actually spent time in most of the hub airports but three finally popped up in my head.

Houston
Salt Lake
And Manchester England
 
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