[email protected] writes:
>glenna writes:
>
>> In your case, you live just a few miles from me (unless that's
>>Portland, Maine, which likely doesn't have an international airport),
>just
>>across the river.
>
>Why wouldn't Portland, ME have an international airport? It's a neat
>little
>city and an IA isn't much of a distinguishing factor, since all it
>requires is
>flights coming in and going out to a foreign country. Canadian planes are
>a
>hop, skip and plop from Maine.
Ouch.
Sorry, Charlie. (Gawd, that sounds like a tuna commercial.)
PDX is the designation for Portland International Airport which was my
reference, and really only meant that there would not be two PDX
designations.
I am, however, surprised to learn that Portland, Maine, has a designated
international airport. What is its airport designation (as SEA for
Sea/Tac in Seattle, Washington; PDX for Portland, Oregon, LAX for Los
Angeles [also international designated], etc.)? I guess I think of the
area as being more rural; read too many old novels about the beauty of the
Maine countryside perhaps.
Perhaps the international designations were made in a time when Portland,
Maine, was smaller. I don't happen to have any of my ex's Jepson Manuals
to look at, or not that I could find if I do have them packed in a box
somewhere that has been unopened for 20+ years. (That '71 Chev is going
to be making many trips to the dump come summer!)
Glenna
(who still bets PDX David is referring
to Portland, Oregon, near the mighty
Columbia River, not Portland, Maine)
Glenna responds:
>
>PDX is the designation for Portland International Airport which was my
>reference, and really only meant that there would not be two PDX
>designations.
>
>I am, however, surprised to learn that Portland, Maine, has a designated
>international airport. What is its airport designation (as SEA for
>Sea/Tac in Seattle, Washington; PDX for Portland, Oregon, LAX for Los
>Angeles [also international designated], etc.)? I guess I think of the
>area as being more rural; read too many old novels about the beauty of the
>Maine countryside perhaps.
Maine is gorgeous: if you ever get a chance, see Acadia National Park. I'm not
really sure Portland has an international airport, but it's a possibility. I
used to visit Maine regularly when my kid sister was alive--she lived in a
place called East Blue Hill--and discovered, to my surprise, that Bangor
Airport was international, even though it has about as many "gates" as Roanoke
(which isn't), VA airport.
And I'd bet you're right about the letter designation. It is very, very
unlikely an outfit, even one as inefficient as the federal government, would
assign PDX to two airports. But, hey, they hit Los Angeles with LAX, and did it
long after Ex-Lax came on the market.
Charlie Self
"One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above
that which is expected." George W. Bush
> Glenna
> (who still bets PDX David is referring
> to Portland, Oregon, near the mighty
> Columbia River, not Portland, Maine)
Right. There is one PDX, but a lot of Davids posting here sometimes. I
mostly lurk out here in PDX, Stumptowm, Puddletown. The Rain Planet,
Slabtown, River City, Little Beirut, The Rose City, Moscow on the
Willamette, Portland. We have an "international" airport, but I've
always gone through customs in Seattle when traveling. I guess we have a
direct flight or two to Tokyo and a few to Mexico - most everything else
goes through somewhere bigger.
Not that anyone is likely to be interested, but we were named Portland
by a Maine immigrant after a deciding coin toss way back when. Had the
coin come other side up we would have been Boston, Oregon.
Back to lurking.
PDX David
Is this still about Harbor Freight :-)