Do pilots have to 'know' every airport.
Following a recent RYR flight from Spain I pondered, as you do, on where would the aircraft go to next? Flightracker gave me the list of countries and airports the aircraft went to for the remainder of the day. However, the following day’s flight, after returning from Spain, went to a different set of countries and airports and on the day after that yet another set and so on..
So - do pilots have to be familiarised with each airport and route they fly to or can they be flying to a new one having never seen it before? If so how does scheduling sort that out?