What is the smallest scheduled transatlantic destination?
When travelling to North America, I am usually quite stressed when arriving in a large airport serving a huge city, so I like to seek out flights arriving in more peaceful settings.
Condor seasonally flies from Frankfurt to Whitehorse International Airport, an airport with (2014) 22,879 movements serving a town of around 25k people.
Air Saint Pierre seasonally flies from Paris CDG to Saint-Pierre Airport, serving Saint Pierre with less than 6k inhabitants.
What is the smallest destination in the Americas I can fly to directly from Europe? For smallest, I may consider either the size of the airport (by number of travellers, aircraft movements, or otherwise) or the population of the city/area it serves. I consider only regularly scheduled flights, seasonal is fine, but not charters. Islands geographically associated with the Americas count, except Greenland (because Kangerlussuaq is mostly a hub for transferring to smaller flights, and Greenland has only flights from Europe).
Is any destination smaller than Saint Pierre to which I can fly non-stop from Europe?
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I googled unusual transatlantic flights and got this USA Today article from 2018 so no telling if the all the flights are still...flying.
Most entries had a big airport at one end or the other but this one stood out to me:
Providence, Rhode Island (PVD) to Ponta Delgada, Azores (PDL) on Azores Air. It's summer-seasonal.
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Samaná El Catey International Airport (AZS) only has 858 aircraft movements a year, but still has seasonal transatlantic flights to Frankfurt operated by Condor.
San Salvador Airport in the Bahamas (ZSA) has 896 movements a year. It has seasonal flights to Paris-Orly operated by Air Caraïbes. It is on San Salvador Island which has a population of 930.
Picture of the latter seem to indicate a pretty relaxed airport.
For both, that's an average of less than 9 aircraft per week.
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