Commercial Service Airports
Commercial service airports serve the big national and international airlines. Planes from all over the world take off and land there.

General Aviation Airports
General aviation airports are smaller airports that handle private, business and charter planes as well as planes that carry people to and from bigger airports.

Military Airports
Military airfields are operated by the army and sometimes share space with other airports.



Heathrow Airport, London, U.K.
Image :  Kenneth Iwelumo (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2), via Wikimedia Commons




American military airport on the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean

Image: United States Air Force, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons