This is a list of eponymously named airports.
It includes the name of the airport, the facility's location, and the person after whom the airport is named.
Current airports
Former names and names of closed airports
- Astor Piazzolla International Airport, Mar del Plata, Argentina
- formerly Brigadier General Bartolomé de la Colina International Airport, changed in August, 2008
- Baghdad International Airport, Baghdad, Iraq
- formerly Saddam International Airport, named for Saddam Hussein
- Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- formerly Haile Selassie I International Airport, named for Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
- Buyant-Ukhaa International Airport, Ulan Bator, Mongolia
- formerly Chinggis Khaan International Airport, which is given to a new airport
- Cape Town International Airport, Cape Town, South Africa
- formerly D.F. Malan Airport, named for Daniel François Malan
- Clark International Airport, Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines
- formerly Diosdado Macapagal International Airport, named for Diosdado Macapagal
- Doncaster Sheffield Airport
- formerly Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield
- Durban International Airport, Durban, South Africa
- formerly Louis Botha Airport, named for Louis Botha; renamed in 1995 and closed in 2010
- Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- closed, named for Kenneth Alexander Blatchford
- El Alto International Airport, La Paz, Bolivia
- formerly John F. Kennedy International Airport
- José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport, Guayaquil, Ecuador
- formerly Simón Bolívar International Airport, named for Simón Bolívar
- Haluoleo Airport, Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
- formerly Wolter Monginsidi Airport, named for Robert Wolter Mongisidi
- Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
- closed, named after two plutocrats Kai Ho and Au Tak
- Kimberley Airport, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa
- formerly B. J. Vorster Airport, named for B. J. Vorster
- Meigs Field, Chicago, Illinois, United States
- closed, named for Merrill C. Meigs
- Mati Airport, Mati City, Philippines
- formerly Imelda R. Marcos Airport
- OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa
- formerly Jan Smuts International Airport, named for Jan Smuts
- Reno–Tahoe International Airport
- formerly Cannon International Airport named for senator Howard W. Cannon
- Senai International Airport, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
- formerly Sultan Ismail International Airport
- Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, United States
- closed, named for Denver mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton
- Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- formerly Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, named for Chiang Kai-shek
- Velana International Airport, Maldives
- formerly Ibrahim Nasir International Airport, named for Ibrahim Nasir and renamed in 2017, after the family house name of Ibrahim Nasir
See also
References
- ↑ "Dallas, Texas Love Field Airport". Dallas-lovefield.com. Archived from the original on June 6, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
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