MBS was a moderate challenge. I knew it had to be away from the coasts, but near enough population density to merit three sizable cities. Upper Midwest was a good place to start.
Barkley Regional, Paducah KY. One airline lead me to EAS carriers, and new terminal doesn't leave many options.
Lol, sorry I pulled out the hard ones there; there's a finite number of commercial service airports so was thinking of a way to make it a little more creative, using smaller, unique aspects of otherwise much more recognizable airports. (TC Zoid's also stumped me, and given the brand new taxiway I even went through recent west coast FAA AIP grant awardees and found nothing.)Should be much easier to figure out than Stlin's last entry which caused me to question my choice of hobbies!
Clarifying... commercial pilots leaving the U.S. west coast flying west towards Asia, or from there headed back to the U.S. west coast. It's a "safety net" airport.I like your reasoning process RandomWalk! Hey TC, we are going to need another clue to go with your remote airfield photo. My brother has been a Delta pilot (currently an A350 Captain) for the past 30 years and has no idea of what your "all commercial pilots going to and coming from the west coast will know it" comment means. So yah, I made a phone call and attempted to cheat and we both came up empty! My first thought was an aircraft graveyard facility that also has some type of commercial service but no luck due to the runway alignment. It's evident that no passengers are flying out of that dump of a terminal unless they are parachuting in!
I didn't even think about ETOPS diversion airfields - this is Henderson Field, Midway Atoll. Deceptively new looking taxiway, that - apparently installed in 2013.
Midway Atoll... It's an airport/airstrip meant for emergencies, 1200 miles west of Hawaii (part of the U.S.). Sorry I didn't make that clear. My pilot friend used to work for Cathay Pacific -- LA/Hong Kong route in the l990s and early 2000's flying 777's and 747's. I think that's why they resurfaced the runway. He almost had to use it once. If so, it's then a de facto terminal result. (If you'd like some more air travel fun look up "Cathay Pacific 49ers". He was one of them.)I just figured it out also with no help from my brother. No commercial air service, middle of the Pacific and only around 40 year round residents is kind of pushing the outer envelope TC!
I thought about editing it out, but I thought an easy one would be a good idea, and I had to give y'all some clue for a featureless box!
Pierre South Dakota!
Ah, it was vaguely familiar since I'd seen it before during a previous search during this game. It took me a while to remember where though.