Trivia question

Can anyone tell me in which state a resident would have to drive the
farthest in to get to an airport with scheduled service? Some states
seem to have very few airports, such as Nevada. For exampe, If you are
a Nevada resident and you don't live near Elko, Reno, or Las Vegas, you
would have to drive a major distance to get to one of these airports.


Thanks.

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Can anyone tell me in which state a resident would have to drive the
farthest in to get to an airport with scheduled service?

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Can anyone tell me in which state a resident would have to drive the
farthest in to get to an airport with scheduled service? Some states
seem to have very few airports, such as Nevada. For exampe, If you are
a Nevada resident and you don't live near Elko, Reno, or Las Vegas, you
would have to drive a major distance to get to one of these airports.

My guess would be Alaska. There are long distances between airports.

For the lower 48, I would suggest Montana.

The following chart doesn't exactly address the question you are asking,
but lists the distance people would have to drive to the nearest airport if
a particular airport hadn't been subsidized under the Essential Air Service
program. You will note that the highest mileages are for airports in
Montana.

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Can anyone tell me in which state a resident would have to drive the
farthest in to get to an airport with scheduled service? Some states
seem to have very few airports, such as Nevada. For exampe, If you are
a Nevada resident and you don't live near Elko, Reno, or Las Vegas, you
would have to drive a major distance to get to one of these airports.


I doubt it beats Nevada, but there are a couple of places in West Texas's
Big Bend where the closest scheduled air service is 150-200 miles away.

The problem is often not how far away is air service, but its frequency and
destination(s), often just one. I used to fly often on DL, but now the DL
flights from nearby airports are "extended commuter" routes direct to ATL,
of little value and great inconvnience, if my destination is to the West.
My own "little" airport, modest AA service to DFW and CO to IAH is hard to
reach coming home, since the last flights in from the HUB are fairly early
in the evening (and often over-booked or packed with folks late for other
connections).

Then there's time.... I'd rather be 150 miles from some airports than 50
from others, based on the projected commute time, parking evolutions and
potential delays with security.

TMO

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Can anyone tell me in which state a resident would have to drive the
farthest in to get to an airport with scheduled service? Some states
seem to have very few airports, such as Nevada. For exampe, If you are
a Nevada resident and you don't live near Elko, Reno, or Las Vegas, you
would have to drive a major distance to get to one of these airports.


Thanks.


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Can anyone tell me in which state a resident would have to drive the
farthest in to get to an airport with scheduled service?

The question itself is ill-defined or not well enough defined, as you
can see from the rest of your paragraph:

Some states
seem to have very few airports, such as Nevada. For exampe, If you are
a Nevada resident and you don't live near Elko, Reno, or Las Vegas, you
would have to drive a major distance to get to one of these airports.

So, state resident of Nevada who lives near one of those airports
would NOT have drive far.

To make the trivia better defined, you would have to start out with a
state WITHOUTan airport with scheduled service, and then the
question would be what it the LEAST distance a resident of such a
state have to drive to get to the NEAREST airport (in some other
state) with scheduled service.

A variation of the trivia would be to ask what POINT (city or location
within the US) in the 48 contiguous states would one have to drive
the farthest distance to get to any airport with scheduled services.

There are many other variations to the Question itself that would
get very different answers, all perfectly well-defined within the
unambiguous meaning of the QUESTION.

The above reflects my training in mathematics and operations
research of searching for optima -- the OBJECT of your search
must be unambiguously defined.

For the "location" farthest away from any airport with schedules
service, I would venture to guess somewhere in Texas or Alaska,
and the search for such a point would be an OR problem of finding
any point in the US whose circle area does not cover any airport
-- as a first cut, and then the DRIVE distance assumes a drivable
road :-) so that the distance may be quite different from a crow-fly
distance.

-- Reef Fish Bob.

James Robinson schrieb:

Can anyone tell me in which state a resident would have to drive the
farthest in to get to an airport with scheduled service? Some states
seem to have very few airports, such as Nevada. For exampe, If you are
a Nevada resident and you don't live near Elko, Reno, or Las Vegas, you
would have to drive a major distance to get to one of these airports.


My guess would be Alaska. There are long distances between airports.

But don't they have lots of smaller airfields and fewer roads?

Regards, ULF

To make the trivia better defined, you would have to start out with a
state WITHOUT an airport with scheduled service, and then the
question would be what it the LEAST distance a resident of such a
state have to drive to get to the NEAREST airport (in some other
state) with scheduled service.

I believe the only such state is Delaware, and the whole state is
pretty close to Philadelphia or maybe Salisbury MD. Northern Delaware
is probably closer to PHL than parts of Philadelphia are.

A variation of the trivia would be to ask what POINT (city or location
within the US) in the 48 contiguous states would one have to drive
the farthest distance to get to any airport with scheduled services.

48 states does make it harder. The state where you can be farthest
from an airport is surely Alaska, and most of Alaska isn't drivable.
Within the lower 48 we can make guesses about rural parts of
California, Montana, and Texas.

R's,
John

In article , John L wrote:

To make the trivia better defined, you would have to start out with a
state WITHOUT an airport with scheduled service

I believe the only such state is Delaware

I could've sworn I saw Wilmington / New Castle on the ASA route map.

(VS) wrote:

John L wrote:

To make the trivia better defined, you would have to start out with
a state WITHOUT an airport with scheduled service

I believe the only such state is Delaware

I could've sworn I saw Wilmington / New Castle on the ASA route map.

Yep, Delta started service there this past summer with flights to Atlanta:

http://www.newcastleairportilg.com/