Salzburg entrepreneur becomes number 1 in worldwide collecting of airports
SALZBURG, Austria and VENICE, Italy, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Salzburg-based railroad transport and logistics entrepreneur Gunther Pitterka (54) is on the verge of becoming a world champion at "collecting" airports. The owner of SETG, a company with around 200 employees, is part of an international collector community of flight enthusiasts whose goal is to fly to as many different airports around the world as possible and to document this in a competitive manner. The documentation and verification platform is the website www.flugstatistik.de. According to this statistics page, the current top number of airports flown to by one participant around the world is 1581. Gunther Pitterka from Salzburg, currently number 2 in the collectors' ranking for airport collecting, will make himself world number 1 by flying next Saturday and displace the current number 1 from his top position. Pitterka will thus become the world record holder, having flown to 1582 different airfields.
- According to this statistics page, the current top number of airports flown to by one participant around the world is 1581.
- Gunther Pitterka from Salzburg, currently number 2 in the collectors' ranking for airport collecting, will make himself world number 1 by flying next Saturday and displace the current number 1 from his top position.
- In an attempt to fly to as many airports as possible, Pitterka has flown 2,928,010 kilometers in recent years.
- Most of his flights to reach airports worldwide took off from Salzburg (1063), his home airport.