What is your home airport?

[Cap10CJ]

Folks, I feel this forum is too quiet. Creepy, crickets chirping, crows cawing, zombies in the shadows quiet...

I am hoping to get a little more action around here, so please bear with me.

Let's start with an easy one, What airport do you call home? Whether you work, travel or just planespot, what is your field of choice?

I work at Pensacola International (KPNS) in sunny (most of the time....) Pensacola Florida. Everyday, I get to enjoy watching United, American, Delta, Frontier, Silver, Boutique, UPS, GA and loads of military every day along with some of the most spectacular sunsets money can buy. We are also the home of the Blue Angels, so we get to see them practice in the distance on a daily basis.

[IndyJets]

Indianapolis, IN (KIND). I've lived within an hour of the airport my entire life...(within 2 miles of it now). Worked on the ramp at IND when I was in my early 20's, including at FedEx starting in 1979 when there was only ONE daily inbound flight (there are over 150 now).

[RSR934]

I work in Maryland, but technically live in the San Francisco Bay area, so my "home" airports are BWI and OAK.

[Cap10CJ]

I work in Maryland, but technically live in the San Francisco Bay area, so my "home" airports are BWI and OAK.

Now that's what I call a commute!

[RSR934]

Yes, it's trying at times!

[cruzsergio]

I work at the Miami International Airport!

Many cool airplanes have arrived there!

[kaitak]

Well, it doesn't get much more boring than Cork! Especially right now in these Covid times. Only a couple of movements a day.
In better times probably a couple of dozen primarily Aer Lingus A320s and ATR72s as well as Ryanair B738s. Air France, KLM, Swiss and Iberia came in several times a week, though not daily, with the smaller types in their fleets.
Currently the most exciting thing is a weekdays-only day-stopper from/to Leipzig, a Condor B763 operating a freighter flight for DHL. Boy, does that look big!
Hopefully the missing flights will be reinstated if and when all this Covid business is past us.

[EuroReisen]

PWM - Portland, Maine. As a kid I would go to the airport and watch Northeast DC-3's, DC-6's, Vicounts, and later (in yellowbird colors) FH-227's, DC-9's and B-727's. After graduation from college (The very next day!) I started with Northeast Airlines as a Ramp Agent. That same year Northeast Airlines was merged into Delta Air Lines. One year later, I became one of the first Delta Stewards... There was no such non-gender word as "Flight Attendant" then. (That came 3 or 4 years later) I flew for 35 years until I retired. I still go to PWM occasionally, during a lunch break, and sit in my car in the observation area on the South Portland side of the runway... just like when I was a kid!

[bryanstim]

PHX - Phoenix Sky Harbor. I'm just a 10 minute drive from the terminal (but not in rush hour!). Flight path is just south and north of my home. I am also just 10 minutes from where Airliners International will hold their annual event in Tempe in July.

[searchlight557]

MIA via AVP

[cesarut]

Hi. I am in Bogota, Colombia. I used to work at the concessionaire of El Dorado International Airport (BOG / SKBO), my "home" airport, which normally has very interesting material, specially if you love freighters, like: Aerosucre's B727 & B737, LAS (Lineas Aéreas Suramericanas) B727, & Transcarga A300. Moreover, you can see Qatar Cargo B772, Turkish Cargo B772, DHL & Fedex B757 & B763, Cargolux B747-8, KLM Cargo B744, Avianca Cargo A332, Latam B767, and so on. On the other hand, before covid times, on a daily basis there could be seen Aviancas of many kinds: A318, A319, A320, A321, A332 & B787, plus Iberia A346 & now A350, LH A343 & A346, KLM B789, Turkish B789, Latam B788 & B789, AA B737max8, B772, A319, Delta B757 & B767, United B737, Jetblue A320, Spirit A319 & A320, Copa B738, etc., etc., etc., which now are less seen. However, happilly the traffic has been increasing last weeks. Greetings from the northernmost point of South America!

[Casey99]

I’m in London, so take you’re pick of Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton or even London city. Between all of them, you get almost everything you would want to see! Except there’s no blue angels like Cap10CJ! Closest thing to that we’ve got is the F-15’s up at Lakenheath.
Good idea to get the chat going on here though. Way too quiet!

[Groover]

I'm currently based in Canberra, Australia. Canberra Airport is my home airport and has a pretty good social media presence. (https://www.facebook.com/canberraairport/) (https://www.instagram.com/canberra_airport/)

[FireAngelZero]

I am currently based near Bradley Intl' Airport near Hartford, CT but my "home" airport will always be San Juan's "Luis Munoz Marin Intl Airport" in Puerto Rico.

[ajgamio]

Salt lake City International is my current airport. Moved to Utah from Chandler, Arizona in Oct 2020, just as they opened the new SLC terminal and concourses. I feel lucky to have a nice new Airport to fly in/out of, and they are adding new international flights, so it's getting there I do miss Sky Harbor and Mesa Gateway airports, utilized those two for 17 years ✈️

[Yurii]

I was born at Castle AFB in 1970 and from then until 1984 I lived in A****er and Merced, California then moved to Eugene, Oregon and been here ever since (except for service in the Army and a few short railroad jobs in other states).

1970-1984 Home airports
Castle AFB (MER/KMER)
Merced Municipal/Macready Field (MCE)

1984-2022
Eugene - Mahlon Sweet Field (EUG/KEUG)

I miss growing up near Castle Air Force Base, from my junior high playground/sports fields in Merced, you could watch B-52G's, B-52H's and KC-135A's on approach for touch-and-go's at the air base, with occasional C-141B's and C-5B's arriving.