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Let’s See How Well You Know Your World Airports

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I’m still on vacation, so it seemed like a great time to put another airport quiz up. I will be slower at approving any flagged comments and responding to any emails. I’ll be back as usual on Monday.
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In January I put together a quiz to see how many domestic US airports you could identify by terminal silhouette. The feedback was great, so I’ve taken it international. Fair warning: this one is a lot harder.

Below, you’ll find 12 silhouettes of airports around the world. See how many you can get right, and talk about it in the comments.

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33 responses to “Let’s See How Well You Know Your World Airports”

  1. PH Avatar
    PH

    Hey Cranky,
    Unrelated to this post, but I have just discovered via Google your fascinating three part ‘behind the scenes at Korean Air’ series from 2013, which I have thoroughly enjoyed reading. Only thing is, most of the images in those posts seem to be missing / coming up as dead links. I have really enjoyed the text, but if there’s any way you can make the images come back that would be even better!

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    1. crankyflier Avatar
      crankyflier

      PH – Ah yes, a sore spot for me. I had a problem with photos on the site getting corrupted a few years ago and these posts were all messed up. I’ve looked everywhere to try to find the originals but somehow they’ve disappeared. I’ve tried everything but sadly, they’re gone. Sorry about that.

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      1. Nick Barnard Avatar
        Nick Barnard

        Hrm, the Internet Archive seems to have the pictures: https://web.archive.org/web/20130613151415/http://crankyflier.com/2013/06/10/72-hours-with-korean-air-getting-to-korea-trip-report/

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        1. CF Avatar
          CF

          Nick – Amazing find! I could have sworn I looked through that back when I was trying to find the pics, but somehow I guess I missed them. But I was so excited to find them that I put them back up right away.

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          1. Nick Barnard Avatar
            Nick Barnard

            Yeah the IA may have had an issue with one of their servers at the time you checked or something.

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          2. PH Avatar
            PH

            Bit slow coming back to this, but THANK YOU for restoring those images! Well worth seeing.

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  2. JMR Avatar
    JMR

    4 out of twelve, not half bad. If there would have been more European airports, I would haven been disappointed in myself, but with many Asian airports, I’m okay :)

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  3. ChuckMO Avatar
    ChuckMO

    All 12 correct in 3:55. Really had to think about Baghdad.

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  4. Luiz Avatar
    Luiz

    3 in 12, but one was a wild guess. Cranky, in fact Guarulhos new international terminal is #3
    (I’m sitting at it right now). Terminal 4 is the old hangar that serves Azul flights.

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    1. crankyflier Avatar
      crankyflier

      Luiz – Thanks for the update on that.

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  5. Scott Avatar
    Scott

    12/12 in 2:40. CDG hieroglyphics made my day!

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  6. SDFDuck Avatar
    SDFDuck

    7/12… not bad considering I’ve never been to any of those aside from LHR nearly 20 years ago!

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  7. Ron Avatar
    Ron

    5/12, that’s four I’ve been to plus Dubai (so just 1/8 of the ones I guessed, which is quite low). Too bad CDG was a giveaway — that one I actually recognized in and instant.

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  8. James Burke Avatar
    James Burke

    4/12. Not the best, not the worst. Blew it on LHR…

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  9. Ernesto Avatar
    Ernesto

    Hi, your description of GRU in #4 is not fully correct. Terminal 3 is TAM (one world) and T4 is Azul and other domestic (low cost, Passarinho?). Also terminal 3 is actually connected to T1 and 2 by a long walking 2nd floor corridor.

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  10. MT Avatar
    MT

    10 out of 12. I’m heading for the grocery store to buy a lotto ticket.

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  11. Nick G Avatar
    Nick G

    9 out of 12 and I owe it primarily to exploring airports and other world wide sites on Google Earth.

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  12. Bill Hough Avatar
    Bill Hough

    I aced it in 3:58. Guess I have too much time on my hands.

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  13. MeanMeosh Avatar
    MeanMeosh

    4/12. At least I got Mumbai right.

    OT, but I’m having problems with the comment box on both Safari and Firefox for desktop. The wrap function doesn’t appear to be working correctly, as the comment screen goes all the way across and gets partially blocked by the two green banners on the right-hand side.

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    1. Vickie Avatar
      Vickie

      I’m having the same problem as well!

      Also 7/12 which is not bad considering I have only been to CDG…what a weird place ( I was in terminal 1 for United) But I have also looked at maps and such online so that’s how I got some of them!

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    2. TC Avatar
      TC

      I am also having the same problem on IE11. I used my phone to read these comments.

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    3. Pitythedelta Avatar
      Pitythedelta

      Me too on chrome for Mac.

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  14. A Avatar
    A

    7 correct in 2:51. Hot damn! Admittedly I only got some based on narrowing down the incorrect ones from you options. Gotta love multiple choice.

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  15. Brian Avatar
    Brian

    7/12. That’s with guessing at most of them! Thanks for putting this together!

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  16. oldiesfan6479 Avatar
    oldiesfan6479

    75% (9 of 12). Time 04:44.

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  17. Nick Barnard Avatar
    Nick Barnard

    I got six outta twelve.. Not bad for never having been off of the North American Continental Plate.

    Although apparently I went drinking with a bunch of Europeans in Germany over the weekend… Twitter is weird.

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  18. Matt B. Avatar
    Matt B.

    8/12. I can’t believe a couple of the ones I missed. I haven’t visited most of them but love looking at airports on Google Earth. It’d be easier for me if I saw a satellite picture instead of an outline. Thanks for putting it together Brett.

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  19. Sanjeev M Avatar
    Sanjeev M

    12/12 in 2:33. Although Baghdad was a complete guess

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  20. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    6 out of 12 and missed 2 that before doing the quiz I thought were a sure thing (Heathrow and Beijing). Pretty bad after going 12 for 12 in the US airports.

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  21. Al B Avatar
    Al B

    4/12 in 4:27. Would have taken less time without reading the comments, but then what would be the point? Only knew LHR and CDG for sure (the only two I’ve been to although it’s been 40 and 16 years respectively). Others were lucky guesses.

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  22. Doug Swalen Avatar
    Doug Swalen

    6 out of 12. Would have done better than 50% but that was the WORST drawing of Dubai’s terminals I’ve ever seen. It was the only airport in the group I had actually been to and I still couldn’t recognize it (I don’t count Frankfurt in 1980 as it was too long ago for me to remember its layout).

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  23. Antal Avatar
    Antal

    Narita has also Terminal 3, a few minutes by feet from terminal 2.

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    1. CF Avatar
      CF

      Antal – Yeah, sorry about that. I actually put this together a couple months ago before Terminal 3 opened at Narita.

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