Airport Guides

I watched a floatplane take off from a lake in northern Minnesota a few summers ago. Just taxied across the water like a boat, lifted...

I got curious about this whole world after watching a medical helicopter land at a hospital near my house and wondering: does that tiny rooftop...

I was sitting in the jump seat of a 737 once — long story involving a friend who’s a captain and some very specific FAA...

That’s sort of the whole point. Three letters. Every airport. Worldwide. I’ve been a frequent flier for about twelve years now, and I genuinely think...

There are apps, websites, browser extensions, government databases — and somehow half of them give you slightly different information depending on whether you’re looking at...

I spent an embarrassing amount of time once trying to figure out why Orlando’s airport code is MCO instead of, you know, ORL. Turns out...

But every once in a while you spot one that just makes you grin. I was scrolling through a flight tracker last year and saw...

I was reading an old aviation magazine at my dentist’s office — don’t ask why they had it — and stumbled on a photo of...

I remember the first time I flew overseas — booked a connecting flight through CDG and genuinely thought my travel agent had made a typo....

I’ve been collecting airport visits for a while now, and one of the things that pulled me in early was how US airport codes tell...