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By
Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_airport
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 actually 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 flight usually go a shorter distance to a larger
regional hub. For medium-size countries like France, Germany, Sweden,
a regional airport is an airport used with smaller planes, even though
they go to the national hub, just like flight from larger domestic airports.
See also:
- International airport
- Domestic airport
- Civil enclave
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