OOL is alone

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My 2025 A to Z theme is Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with. I’ll be using IATA codes where they’re available. My inner travel agent emerges at this point as I’m the FTO (family travel organiser) and now, the online travel agent.

OOL     Coolangatta/Gold Coast Airport, Gold Coast, Queensland

Back in 1985, my family gave me the birthday gift of a flight in a biplane from Coolangatta airport, now called Gold Coast airport. You can see my attire, and my smile in this photo. I loved the flight but was not keen on doing loops. It was C..OOL.

Not the Red Baron or a aerobatics pilot.

Today’s post is short and sweet. I looked up what other airports start with the IATA code O, but while I’ve visited a few places, I haven’t flown into any of them. Have you?

Have you ever been up in a biplane?

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  1. Never been in a biplane and would not like to do loops.

    I looked up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_by_IATA_airport_code:_O – have been to quite a few of the places listed but never by air – for example Coolangatta, Cooma, Oban (Scotland), Orange NSW, Olympia (Washington, United States), Paris but I think Charles de Gaulle airport not Orly, Ostend / Bruges (Belgium), Oxford (England), Ooyen Victoria.

    I was stunned by the long list of places beginning with code O – I am surprised you have only flown into Coolangatta.

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    1. Like you there are lots of places I’ve been by car, or occasionally by boat, but sadly not plane. I only looked at that site in the last few days for those tricky letters, Q and X, to no avail, but I should look at other letters as an aide memoir. My husband’s family come from Ouyen. Not sure about Orange but have been to the others mentioned.

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      1. I expect you are OK for a Q airline 😉 but cannot say I have visited any of the places specifically – some are bases and I have been near such as Coningsby and Chichester and Singapore. For X there are a few places I have been to licke Colac and Mallacoota – but again not flown there. There are a few New Guinea airports listed she says hopefully for you 😉

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      2. Of course I had to check out your link for O…working better than the one I had. A few more I could have added for land but the best would have been OZZ for Ouarazazte in Morocco…that would have been a good one. 🙂

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    1. I have moments of bravery Jill but not when it comes to aerobatics.

      I should see if I can update my flight radar as we’re remembering so many more flights. Peter, of course, has vastly outdone me.

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