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...

Heliport codes have gotten complicated with all the new medical facilities and corporate campuses flying around — or rather, having helicopters fly into them. I...

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...

Three-letter airport codes have gotten complicated with all the travel apps flying around — wait, no, they’ve actually stayed remarkably simple. That’s sort of the...

Finding airport codes has gotten complicated with all the search tools flying around. There are apps, websites, browser extensions, government databases — and somehow half...

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...

Airport codes have gotten complicated with all the abbreviations flying around. But every once in a while you spot one that just makes you grin....

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...

International airport codes have gotten complicated with all the abbreviations flying around. I remember the first time I flew overseas — booked a connecting flight...

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...