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Talking about the Suvorov statue, Count Alexander Suvorov was the Russian Field Marshal Generalissimo, who is mostly famous for his strategic maneuver to cross the Alps with minimal casualties like Hannibal when leading Russians and Austrians fighting against Napoleon in Italy and Switzerland.
Your New Jersey friend has no excuse for never pumping her own gas, how the hell has she never been out of Jersey for long enough to fill her tank!?! Pitiful!!
Toycat, Reagan airport in DC is only for regional travel (restricted to ~1500mi) and DCs other airport is Washington Dulles, and BWI is Baltimore’s airport which is shared with DC as well. BWI is mostly big because it s a big hug for Southwest Airlines
Man, I was not expecting to see Wilmington Delaware airport on this channel. Quite obscure. I live in Philadelphia so usually fly out of PHL, but I did take a flight from Wilmington in 2014 while they had Frontier service. Really pleasant experience. No long security line, everything is like one moderately sized room, then you walk up the ramp to the plane. Fun time!
Fun fact about Maine. Three airports in the state (Augusta, Bar Harbor, and Rockland) each only fly to a single destination, which for all three is Boston.
5:15 Washington DC actually has 3-ish big airports serving it. The one you couldn't think of was probably Dulles Intl, but of course it also has BWI (Baltimore-Washington Intl) and Reagan Natl (even though it's a "National" and not "International" airport it does indeed still have international flights.
Washington has three airports each of which are similarly sized: BWI Airport (Baltimore/Washington International) in Maryland, Reagan National Airport near downtown and Dulles way out in the Virginia suburbs
It's natural that countries like canada, Russia, Usa and Brazil have the most airports since they have a large land area. Smaller countries could just use a higher capacity airport and don't have to build more even if they have a high population.
"Somebody will always bring up Palestine/Israel-issue, no matter the topic" *basically next sentence* "So, the Gaza Strip [apparently] got their airport destroyed and airspace taken by Israel" good stuff
The reason the US has so many airports is because unlike other big countries like Brazil, Australia, China, Russia, Canada. Most of our people are spread out unlike in those countries where most of their population is clumped together because of their terrain or other things.
Of small pieces of land that actually have airport, though it isn't a country, you should have mentioned Gibraltar. It was not easy to fit an airport in there but they made this effort and did it. Even though the only road to this area of land actually crosses its runway, and have of this runway is on an artificially built peninsula.
There’s the Pittsburgh airport, and then there’s the Latrobe airport, a 30 minute DRIVE away. (And there used to be a flight in between them. It didn’t even reach cruising altitude)
Dude here in Houston we have 2 major airports one on the north side of the city minimum 1 hour from 80% of the south side (its international) and the other on the extreme south side minimum 1.5 hours from 80% of the north side (it's only a domestic airport so cheaper rates to wherever) the thing that helps tho is that typically the south side is flying domestic and the north is international cause most business is on the north side or in downtown but I live on the north side and am still at least half an hour from the airport it sucks lol but they both are about half an hour from downtown
It’s funny because being a Delawarean I know that there used to be public flights, but because there currently are no public flights, Delaware has more Air Force bases than public airports with a ratio of 0:1
The other Washington airport (which also serves Baltimore) is called BWI. It's full name is Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Named after Thurgood Marshall, an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Washington also has Dulles International in Virginia, named after John Foster Dulles. Secretary of State who served under Eisenhower
About the deleware thing, it is the same in many places. We had an airport in lübeck germany, but over time there were very few people using it. They'd just drive down to hamburg, which has one of the largest airports in germany and is at the same time the oldest in the world.
The most remote airport Mataveri International Airport is also an interesting airport to talk about and the airports on Tuvalu and the Kiribati islands.
I was mostly listening to the video without watching too closely, and at 14:34 I genuinely thought Toycat somehow went on a tangent of the bee movie, which, considering it's Toycat, did not surprise me in the least.
I don’t know what’s the deal with “kh” in those Russian words, but we don’t pronounce “k” in it. Abkhazia(I was born in there) is pronounced as abhazia. The only thing I can think of is that in English “h” may be silent or semi silent where in Russian it is quite harsh
Another reason the US has so many airports is because we have a huge private aviation market. Not even private jets, small personal recreational flying airplanes. It's cheaper for someone to own an airplane and fly here than pretty much anywhere. We also have a government run and not privately run airspace system which reduces costs.
It's definitely a mix of size and population, mediated by population density which would increase the availability of other means of transportation, and purchase power, which increases usage of air travel.
The genuinely stunning fact from the video which Andrew didn't comment on is that PNG has 561 airports and is ranked 12th on that list. That's more than Germany, the UK, Australia and even China!!!
BWI - Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (Washington DC and Baltimore essentially share it, but BWI is much closer to Baltimore).
Actually San Marino does have an international airport. But it's located in Rimmini, Italy which is conveniently close to San Marino and it's administrated by them
