"soup" wrote in message
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On 18/07/2019 18:36, blatha wrote:


Living languages change over time. Thats why even
you lot now talk about airports instead of airfields,

I mangled that, meant to say aerodrome instead of airfield.

I agree with the 'living languages change' portion but

there is a BiG difference between airstrips, airfields and air ports.

I can't remember it verbatim (56 now, 14 at the time I was taught this
in the ATC) but they defined them as

Aistrip :-flat(ish) strip of ground aeroplanes could land and take of
from.

Airfield :-as above but spread over a wider area with places to store
planes, fuel, passengers etc


Airport:- as above but with customs facilities ('port facilities in fact'
; always remember that line)

That was never common usage.