Correction: Devvik2 actually knows them, the rest of us cheat :P
(Edit: to be fair "cheating" and repeatedly taking the quiz is a valid way of learning these things so you do know them... that's how I learned all the countries and capitals!)
Maui and Kauai worked, which makes sense since you fly into them for the islands rather than the site where the airport is. (I've flown into both of those and I don't remember their actual names.) Honolulu and Hilo need the place names, which also makes sense. Judicious work, Quizmaster!
I got Kona because I had read something about that airport just a few days ago, maybe somewhere in a comment on Reddit or something obscure like that, but by typing the islands I got the other two as well. I don't think people are cheating, well, not that many anyway. There are always some.
You don't have to live there to know about it. Hawaii is a very popular vacation destination. Obviously hundreds of thousands of people are flying into these airports or else they wouldn't be on that list. Maybe some of those people take Jetpunk quizzes.
I got Kona because that's where I flew into when I went to Hawaii- aside from that one, the rest are all major cities or islands in Hawaii, which I imagine many people, especially those who regularly take quizzes on here, would know without needing to cheat.
I didn't even think of Honolulu and never heard of the other Hawaii ones but I guess there will be a lot of people from California taking this quiz and if Hawaii is one of the most common destinations it makes sense a lot of people will know them...
You don't have to be from a place to know something about it but those 3 smaller Hawaiian cities are very obscure and it's my opinion that people are cheating.
@kalbahamut -- what you call cheating I call "a good way to learn geography trivia". If I was not allowed to retake quizzes on here using knowledge I learned from previous takes, I would still not know the name of most of the worlds countries :P
Well, as a European I had no idea about the Hawaiian destinations other than Honolulu. I would imagine most on this side of the Atlantic don't, other than geography buffs or people who have been there. What are the demographics for Jetpunk users anyway? Is it listed somewhere?
see? By jelly's own admission.... cheating. Looking up the answers after the quiz is over is learning. Looking them up the first time you take it is cheating.
Make a quiz about geography in your country that all of us Americans will fail at! (Caveat: this is a trivia quiz website so there's a good chance many of the Americans on here will know it or be willing to learn it to ace your quiz. But still, could be fun!)
I got "Lihue" by typing Kauai and "Kahului" but typing Maui. The siame strategy (typing the specific island's name) doesn't work for "Kona," though; I typed "Hawaii", thinking of the Big Island, but I guess it makes sense it wouldn't apply in that case. I'd be surprised if people knew the actual airport names, but since the island names work as answers, and the islands aren't somehow known or visited only by Hawaiians or Californians, I'd assume that's the reason. Handy dandy auto-fills.
How about making (or featuring if its already been made) a versions of the Busiest Air Routes quizzes without the map? This quiz is basically just can you name 50 cities on a map, not name the 50 Busiest Air Routes from LA as the title says. Takes the fun out of it.
I like ABomb's explanation. I know there's tons of Salvadorans in LA but I haven't met one that actually wants to go back to it in the current circumstances.
San Salvador is a major hub for Avianca. A few years ago Avianca (a Colombian airline and part of the STAR Alliance) bought TACA which was headquartered in San Salvador. Over the years leading up to that acquisition, TACA bought up several other Latin American airlines causing many of them to reroute their flights to/through San Salvador where they had previously stopped in other Central American cities along the way between North America and South America. For several hours every day (pre-COVID at least) the airport in San Salvador is a hive of activity.
What Goalslammer said. Also sometime connecting flights give you weirdly short hops (this happens to me most of the time in Texas but has happened in CA).
Heck, there's even multiple hopper flights per day between LAX and SNA!
Would recommended to add Fort Worth as a type in for Dallas, as the airport is in between Dallas, and Fort Worth, thusly named "Dallas/Fort Worth Airport"
Ok, honestly, I thought there would be a lot more international flights, and was surprised there were few to Latin America outside of Mexico- I thought there would be more in Asia, but a lot of Oceania! I thought New York was flying to Europe, Los Angeles- Asia and Oceania! Cool quiz!
Keep in mind Asia flights are across the entire pacific ocean, very long. I wonder if this counts just destination or if I'm taking a flight to tokyo and we stop in Honolulu it counts as honolulu
Check the great circle route from points east of the Rockies to NRT, ICN, PEK, TPE, HKG - adding a stop in LAX to most of them represents a pretty big detour. Now check the great circle route from them to SYD - not that big a detour. So when you're looking at connecting flights, you'll likely opt for a connection in LAX to fly to Australia, but a connection elsewhere (e.g. SEA, DEN, ORD, JFK) to fly to Japan, Korea, China, or Taiwan.
As a UK dweller, I was pleased with 43/50. The only one I didn't get that was outside the USA was San Jose del Cabo. Missed Charlotte, Sacramento (doh!) and the Hawaiian ones other than Honolulu
Missed all the Hawaiian ones and Guadalajara. The Hawaiian ones I had no chance on, but I feel I should have got Guadalajara. It's just my brain was in touristy resort type places like Cabo and Cancun when I was doing Mexico. I've done a few of these, flying to or from LA: Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland, Honolulu and Dallas. The trans-Pacific ones are a slog.
(Edit: to be fair "cheating" and repeatedly taking the quiz is a valid way of learning these things so you do know them... that's how I learned all the countries and capitals!)
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That might help demonstrate the distances to Asia and Oceania better, but I'm not sure if it would really affect scores that much.
Heck, there's even multiple hopper flights per day between LAX and SNA!