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Smallest I have been through would be GGG ( Gladewater) serving Longview, Kilgore, Marshall Texas. Only 2 gates and American has flights 2 times a day.
Farmington , NM was quite small. Mesa Airline still flies out of there IIRC and it had mostly flights to ABQ.
I think the biggest I have flown out of was Heaththrow , Amersterdam ( my favorite airport in Europe), De Gaulle was a mess that last time we were there. Awful!!
Of course, DEN ( wish they would finally open the other TSA inspection rather than having only one!, ) O'Hare DFW, IAH, ATL and LAX are probably the biggest in the US that I have been through
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Largest is LAX, smallest is the Diamond Point Airstrip in Sequim, WA., with no control tower, no beacon, just one runway 2,335 ft × 24 ft with deer often running across it.
I remember the pilot banking the plane at 30K feet so we could look out the window at the tiny speck in the ocean that he said we were going to land on....Midway. Then I remember a flight attendant stating "There is your playground for the next 13 months boys....as we circled Tan Son Nhut...clearly her humor sucked.
A few weeks ago I visited the first airport in the world, Huffman Prairie just east of Dayton, OH. This is where the Wright Brothers spent two years (1903-1905 after their famous but very short First Flight in Kitty Hawk NC) in testing & building a new airplane that was capable of controlled takeoff and landing, with turning, ascending and descending maneuvers. It has just one storage barn, where they would disassemble their plane when not on site, a catapult takeoff assist and a few hundred yards of open prairie. In 1910 this site became the world's first flight school where the Wright Brothers trained many dozens of other new pilots to fly aircraft.
Largest would be Chicago O'Hare (ORD), London Heathrow (LHR), or Toronto Pearson (YYZ). And we can add Los Angeles (LAX) to those.
Smallest commercial airport would be Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada (YQL), which proudly proclaims that it has two gates: one for arrivals and one for departures. Oh, and by the way, call first if you need Canada Customs. They're only there on demand. Enjoy the newly-installed coffee bar and real washrooms post- security.
(Yeah, until late last year, YQL had no washrooms at all post-security, nor any refreshments except for a vending machine that pretty much was only ever stocked with Dasani water.)
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