Direct flights between cities with the same name
One can fly from London (YXU) to London (LHR) (via Toronto), from Glasgow (GGW) to Glasgow (GLA) (multiple stops), or from Moscow (PUW) to Moscow (SVO) (via Seattle). There are others (Sydney, Manchester, Portland, ...; I'm not aiming for a complete list here). For trains, once a week, there is a direct train which stops first at Frankfurt (am Main) and then at Frankfurt (an der Oder).
But are there, or have there ever been, any direct scheduled flights between two cities of the same name?
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Alaska Airlines flies nonstop from San Jose, CA USA to San Jose del Cabo in Mexico.
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Answer 2
Newark, NJ to Newark, DE by Amtrak train.
5:15 PMNewark Penn Station Acela Express 2167 towards Washington Union Station 6:27 PM 6:40 PMWilmington Station Wilmington/Newark Line 3257 towards Newark 6:59 PMNewark (Newark, Delaware)
Direct flight from EWR (Newark, NJ) to ILG Greater Wilmington Area (7 miles from Newark, DE) https://www.flights.com/flights/wilmington-ilg-to-newark-ewr/
Answer 3
Funny start?
Springfield SFY (MA) to Springfield SPI (IL) doesn't result in any connection for my booking advisor, neither to Springfield SGF (MO) nor Springfield VSF (VT). Neither does any other combination yield results, nor does Marshall MLL (AK) to the Marshall Islands MAJ nor St. Petersburg PIE (FL) to St. Petersburg/Leningrad LED (Russia)too bad, we could have listened to the song of the same name on the flight, nor could any combination of Newcastle/New Castle to New Castle be found.
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To get from Alexandria AEX (LA, USA) to Alexandria HBE (Egypt) it takes 3 to 4 stops, so sadly that's out. Most ancient Alexandrias lack airports.
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Glasgow GLA (Scotland) to Glasgow GCW (MT) has 3 stops. As is Trinidad (TTD) to Trinidad-Tobago, a country, using Port of Spain POS as a mark. Or Armenia AXM in Colombia to Yereven EVN in Armenia.
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From Lebanon LEB (NH), it's 2 stops to Beirut BEI in Lebanon, so... kinda on/off the mark again? But remember Newcastle? Newcastle NCL (England) connects with Newcastle NTL (Australia) via 2 stops. Melbournde MEL (Australia) to Melbourne MLB (FL) has, once again, 2 stops. Roma RMA (Australia) to Roma ROM (Italy) usually has 2 or 3 stops.
More 2 stop: La Paz LPB (Bolivia) to La Paz LAP (Mexico). Sydney YQY (NS) to Sydney SYD (Australia). Augusta AGS (GA) to Augusta AUG (ME). Aberdeen ABZ (Scotland) to Aberdeen ABR (SD). Kandahar KDH (Afganistan) to Alexandria HBE (Egypt), because Kandahar is one of the 20-something Alexandrias. Or Kandahar KDH to Khujand LBD (Tajikistan), also founded as... Alexandria. Or from Khujand LBD to Termez TMJ (Uzbekistan)...
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Kingston KIN (Jamaica) to Kingston YGK (ON, Canada) is 1 or 2 stops, we get better! Same for London LON (England) to London YXU (ON), 1 stop and occasional 2 stops, as is San Jose SJC (CA) to San Jose SJO (Costa Rica), as is from San Jose SJO to San Jose SJD (Mexico), or Santiago SCL (Chile) to Santiago STI (Dominican Republic), or Manchester NHT (NH) to Manchester MAN (England) or Rochester ROC (NY) to Rochester RST (MN). Or Manhattan MHK (KS) to Manhattan, New York NYC (NY), landing in EWR or JFK.
But to get from San Jose SJC (CA) to San Jose SJD (Mexico) or Columbus CMH to Columbus CSG (GA), it's always 1 stop, Again, a little better on the track. Same for Washington (DC) WAS to Washington (State) using SEA. Or Saint John YSJ (Canada) to St.John's YYT (Canada). And another case of former-Alexandrias: Kandahar KDH to Herat HEA (both Afganistan) via Kabul.
my winner is:
- Santa Cruz (de la Palma) SPC Santa Cruz (de la Tenerife) TCI (both Spain) - which is a 30 mintues nonstop domestic flight in Spain.
Honorable mention
Kaliningrad (since 1996: Korolyov) to Kaliningrad KGD (formerly: Königsberg) in Kaliningrad Oblast would have been a nonstop flight... from Moscow SVO.
The mad Alexandria-dash, always taking 2 stops inbetween ancient Alexandrias: Alexandria HBE - Kandahar KDH - Khujad LBD - Termez TMJ
Answer 4
Pfäffikon SZ and Pfäffikon ZH are two suburbs of Zürich, about 10km from each other. SZ (Schwyz) and ZH (Zürich) refer the the cantons these villages are in. Both are on the Zürich suburban train network, and you can travel between them every half hour. At one time there were even direct trains...
Answer 5
Since your rules do not mention that flights have to be regular nor commercial, some "test flights" may satisfy yor criteria.
The ticket below was for a direct flight from Toulouse (TLS) to the very same Toulouse (TLS) airport, approx. 10 hours long just to reach the place you were departing from.
This was the first Airbus A340 flight with passengers, aimed at testing the cabin and its related facilities (intense use of toilets, heating and serving hundreds of meals, etc.). Except that you could not buy the ticket from an airline, it was just like a normal, fully booked, evening flight. You would pop up at the airport 1-2 hrs before, go through security, wait in the terminal and board the plane from a gate. During the flight, the plane just circled above the Pyrénées mountains to make time pass and burn its fuel. It then returned to its original airport in the morning (no jetlag!).
Answer 6
First I'll propose one historic but concrete example there used to be a helicopter shuttle between London (LHR) and London (LGW) (same city, different airports). I'm sure there were similar services in other countries.
Now for my attempts to find something current. I don't believe there is anything, but can't claim to have conclusive proof.
From Wikipedia's list of international airports I extracted all the airport names (pasted into a text editor, tidied up, piped through sort
. Of course at this point I may already be omitting some domestic airports like Portland(PWM)-Portland(PDX) as mentioned in the comments.
The full list is too long to include here but is on Dropbox.
Then I used a Python script to pare this down to duplicate city names, generate URLs for Google flights, and load those URLS (rate-limited) in the default browser:
#data taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_airports_by_country
import codecs
import webbrowser
import time
airport_list=[]
duplicates=[]
testURLs=[]
base="https://www.google.com/flights?hl=en#flt="
date1="2020-11-28"
end=".2020-12-02;c:GBP;e:1;sd:1;t:f"
with codecs.open('airports_sorted.txt', encoding='utf-8') as airports:
for line in airports:
airport_list.append(line.replace('\n','').split("\t"))
print ('%d total airports found'%len(airport_list))
for n,airport in enumerate(airport_list):
for m,possible_duplicate in enumerate(airport_list):
if airport[0]==possible_duplicate[0] and n!=m and airport[1] not in ([duplicate[1] for duplicate in duplicates]):#test for same city name, not same index, not same airport name
duplicates.append(airport)
testURL=base+airport[2]+"."+possible_duplicate[2]+"."+date1+"*"+airport[2]+"."+possible_duplicate[2]+end
testURLs.append(testURL)
print ('%d airports with duplicate city names found'%len(duplicates))
print ('They are:')
print ('City\tAirport\tCode')
for duplicate in duplicates:
print ('%s\t%s\t%s'%(duplicate[0],duplicate[1],duplicate[2]))
tab_count=0
for testURL in testURLs:
print (testURL)
webbrowser.open_new_tab(testURL)
tab_count+=1
time.sleep(1)#load slowly
if tab_count>9:
dummy=input("press enter to continue")
tab_count=0#load max 10 tabs at once
Leaving the following list of 70 airports:
Alexandria Alexandria International Airport ALY
Alexandria Borg El Arab Airport HBE
Bandung Husein Sastranegara International Airport BDO
Bandung Kertajati International Airport KJT
Beijing Beijing Capital International Airport PEK
Beijing Beijing Daxing International Airport PKX
Birmingham Birmingham International Airport BHX
Birmingham Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport BHM
Buenos Aires Aeroparque Jorge Newbery AEP
Buenos Aires Ministro Pistarini International Airport EZE
Chicago Chicago Midway International Airport MDW
Chicago O'Hare International Airport ORD
Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport CMB
Colombo Ratmalana International Airport RML
Columbus (OH) John Glenn Columbus International Airport CMH
Columbus (OH) Rickenbacker International Airport LCK
Frankfurt Frankfurt Airport FRA
Frankfurt Frankfurt-Hahn Airport HHN
Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport IAH
Houston William P. Hobby Airport HOU
Istanbul Istanbul Airport IST
Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport SAW
Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport HLP
Jakarta Soekarno Hatta International Airport CGK
Johannesburg Lanseria International Airport HLA
Johannesburg OR Tambo International Airport JNB
Kristiansand Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik KRS
Kristiansand Kristiansund Airport, Kvernberget KSU
Milan Linate Airport LIN
Milan Malpensa Airport MXP
Moscow Domodedovo International Airport DME
Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport SVO
Moscow Vnukovo Airport VKO
New York City John F. Kennedy International Airport JFK
New York City LaGuardia Airport LGA
Oslo Oslo Airport-Gardermoen OSL
Oslo Sandefjord Airport TRF
Panama City Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport ECP
Panama City Tocumen International Airport PTY
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport CDG
Paris Orly Airport ORY
Reykjavik Keflavik International Airport KEF
Reykjavik Reykjavik Airport RKV
Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International Airport GIG
Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont Airport SDU
São Paulo São Paulo–Congonhas Airport CGH
São Paulo São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport GRU
Seattle Kenmore Air Harbor Seaplane Base LKE
Seattle King County International Airport BFI
Seattle Seattle-Tacoma International Airport SEA
Shanghai Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport SHA
Shanghai Shanghai Pudong International Airport PVG
Singapore Seletar Airport XSP
Singapore Singapore Changi Airport SIN
Stockholm Stockholm-Arlanda Airport ARN
Stockholm Stockholm-Bromma Airport BMA
Stockholm Stockholm-Skavsta Airport NYO
Stockholm Stockholm-Västerås Airport VST
Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport IKA
Tehran Mehrabad International Airport THR
Tenerife Tenerife North Airport TFN
Tenerife Tenerife South Airport TFS
Valencia Arturo Michelena International Airport VLN
Valencia Valencia Airport VLC
Victoria Seychelles International Airport SEZ
Victoria Victoria International Airport YYJ
Warsaw Frédéric Chopin Airport WAW
Warsaw Modlin Airport WMI
Washington, D.C. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport** DCA
Washington, D.C. Washington Dulles International Airport IAD
None of these pairs show anything on FlightRadar24's search of direct flights, but that only searches current flights. Google similarly doesn't find anything direct. The best is Panama City (Panama, PTY) to Panama City (Florida, ECP) with a change in Houston. Google should hopefully find everything direct, but it certainly misses some indirect routes: flightconnections.com finds Valencia (Spain, VLC) to Valencia (Venezuela, VLN) with 2 changes (several routes) but Google doesn't.
I won't claim this is conclusive for a couple of reasons:
- As I noted above it misses domestic airports (if there's a list of all airports in the world, I can try pointing my script at that).
- Some airports may serve more than one city, or not the city it's named for (e.g. Newark is generally thought of as serving New York). That would be hard to code, but harder to define.
- This depends on the completeness and correctness of the list, which I can't vouch for. I found one typo: KSU serves Kristiansund not Kristiansand, so there's a fake duplicate on my list; a typo with the opposite effect could hide a success. Also ALY isn't an airport serving Alexandria. It might have been in the past, or it might have been called AEX.
Answer 7
There is now a direct train 041/042 from [Veliky] Novgorod to [Nizhny] Novgorod and back.
And nobody is very happy about it since it messed up former city residents' arrival time to Moscow.
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