Yeah, so far CKX is the airport I can find with the most hops to Anchorage (4, but 3 to Fairbanks which is also fairly well connected). YGZ is likewise 4 hops t

Yeah, so far CKX is the airport I can find with the most hops to Anchorage (4, but 3 to Fairbanks which is also fairly well connected). YGZ is likewise 4 hops to Ottawa, and I can't find anything higher in Canada (there are a few that are 4 hops to Montreal in northern Quebec). Nor can I find anything in Greenland more than 4 hops from Copenhagen, Keflavik, or Gatwick (hilariously, that's the fewest-hop big airport for some routes due to flying through Akureyri, which is connected to RKV rather than KEF). There must be some island hopping chain somewhere in the Pacific (or perhaps in the Indian Ocean?) but it's not so easy to find. It seems you're usually a few hops from either Tahiti, Hawaii or Fiji...