Airport handling only flights within the same country
Tanga Airport
in
Tanzania
Mumbai airport domestic departure terminal 1C (4)
Overview of
Moorabbin Airport
,
Melbourne
,
Australia
A
domestic airport
is an
airport
that handles only flights within the same
country
.
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Domestic airports do not have customs and immigration facilities and so cannot handle flights to or from a foreign airport.
These airports often have short runways sufficient to handle short or medium haul
aircraft
and regional air traffic.
Security check
/metal detectors are used in most countries, but in many cases they were installed decades after security checks for international flights had become commonplace.
Most municipal airports in
Canada
and the
United States
are of this classification. At
international airports
in Canada, there are domestic terminals that handle flights within Canada (flying from one Canadian city to another).
Additionally, some airports that are named "international" are essentially domestic airports that handles international traffic on an irregular basis. A notable example of this is
Osaka International Airport
(Itami Airport) in the outskirts of
Osaka
,
Japan
. Most of these airports are located in the United States.
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In the
United Kingdom
, an example of a domestic airport is
Wick Airport
, which operates frequent flights to other Scottish airports.
Some small countries or regions do not have any public domestic airports, or even public domestic flights, due to their size or political reasons, or due to having alternatives to domestic flights such as
high-speed rail
(e.g.
Belgium
,
Kuwait
,
Hungary
,
Lithuania
,
Luxembourg
,
Serbia
,
Singapore
,
Slovakia
, and the
United Arab Emirates
).
Regional airport
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A
regional airport
is an airport serving traffic within a relatively small or lightly populated geographical area. A regional airport usually does not have
customs
and
immigration
facilities to process traffic between countries. In Canada regional airports usually service connections within Canada and some flights to the United States. A few U.S. regional airports, some of which call themselves international airports, may have customs and immigration facilities staffed on an as-needed basis, but the vast majority serve domestic traffic only.
Aircraft using these airports tend to be smaller
business jets
, private aircraft and
regional airliners
of both
turboprop
propelled or
regional jetliner
varieties. These flights usually go a shorter distance to a larger regional hub. These airports usually have shorter runways, which exclude heavy planes with much fuel.
Europe
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In
European
countries, regional airports are often classed as airports that do not serve the country's capital/most major city. Examples of larger regional airports include
Barcelona El Prat Airport
,
Spain
and
Manchester Airport
,
England
, which are both among Europe's busiest airports and are used by both large and small planes. In countries like France, Germany, and Sweden, a regional airport is an airport for small planes, even though they go to the national hub, just like flights from larger airports. Examples of small regional airports include
Coventry Airport
and Worship Airport.
In
northern Norway
, a country with long distances and many
short-runway
airports, regional airports are those with flights to a regional hub, not to the capital.
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