[Tagging] Aerodrome types

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-07-03 13:44 GMT+02:00 John Packer <john.packer7 at gmail.com>:

> This way we could also take into consideration the "alternatively
> international" airports i.e. airports that only receive international
> flights when the original ones can't.
> I read in wikipedia[2] there are some airports that do have international
> flights, but are limited to some close countries, and are therefore called
> "regional". Perhaps we could treat this case in this same key.
>



this essentially can be condensed to "length of runway", because this
implies bigger airplanes, and bigger airplanes tend to fly longer
distances. If there is a small airfield close to the border, you might have
international (regional) flights also with very small planes.
Anyone remember Mathias Rust ;-)
http://socks-studio.com/img/blog/mathias-rust-04.jpg

cheers,
Martin
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