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Very cool. Why does Florida have so many airports?
by tony_cannistra 7y ago
Very cool. Why does Florida have so many airports?
- Ithildin 7y agoBecause nobody wants to drive there.
- alexhutcheson 7y ago- It has a bunch of popular vacation destinations (beaches on the Gulf Coast, beaches on the Atlantic, theme parks at Orlando, cruise ship ports, and the Florida Keys) - It's both really large (it would take ~10 hours to drive from Pensacola to Miami) and pretty dense (8th densest state as of 2015[1]) - It has a lot of military bases: 5 active Air Force bases and 4 Naval Air Stations, along with a bunch of other installations that also have airfields. More broadly: It has good weather most of the year, it's the closest point in the continental US to a lot of places (the Carribean, Central and South America), and it had a ton of empty land during the period that the US started building a lot of airfields. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population_density https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...
- CPLX 7y agoMany reasons, but likely the most prominent is that Florida has long been the country's locus for pilot training. The reason for that in turn likely has something to do with being extraordinarily flat, with good year round weather and close to major population centers.