Favorite and Least Favorite Airport

zmiller4 said:
It's gotten a lot better the last year or so. I haven't seen flow over 2 hrs this year, including some pretty nasty weather. Maybe I've been lucky though.
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Think you've just been lucky. The other day was horrendous. 8am flight out of COS had about a 6 hour flow
 
Favorite- JFK
I'm a New Yorker and if you have a problem with JFK then you are the problem. Great controllers with an excellent sense of humor.
jetBlue XXX-"What's are sequence?"
JFK-"34."
Delta XXX-"What's are sequence?"
JFK-"34."
AA XXX-"Can we shut them down when we reach the end?"
JFK-"I don't know, can you?"

Least favorite-ATL/PHL/CLT
 
bike21 said:
So many potential categories to choose from, but I will stick with my 121 experience...

pax - HPN
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Also my least favorite for that reason and deicing there sucks. Plus the hotel is 20 miles away and it's a short overnight.

Maybe I'm a little deranged, but my favorite is LGA. Love flying up Broadway at night.

New favorite for scenery: KJAC. Pix to follow.
 
Favs:

GPI - Glacier Park International
MSO - Missoula
STS - Santa Rosa
SEA - Mainly for the Dungeness Crab breakfast sandwiches at Ivar's, freakin sweet man!
DTS - Destin, just a fun airport to fly into.

Least Favs:

CLT - ALWAYS send you around their airspace...
SEA - Wx goes down, you're going to get slowed way down and sent around your ass to get to your elbow...including "Horizon xxx, please slow to 160", "But sir, we're picking up moderate ice...can't go below 200", (long breathe with keyed mic)"Horizon xxx, give me what you can"...this is usually followed by a 30 mile final.
 
Least favorite is because of long vectors? Airline nancies. I'm not a big fan of KDRT, but that might have more to do with it being built in Del Rio than the airport itself.

I seem to remember KHRO as being challenging on occasion as well. Never did much like KCRG or KHWK, either, for similar foginess-related issues. And of course KATL for the inevitable infuriating failed attempts to get a word in on ground so's the controllers will notice the little airplanes on the FBO ramp.

Point of fact, I think I prefer the airports that I'm not flying to. Extra points if I'm off duty.
 
Doug Taylor said:
Favorite? Frankfurt because the controllers are so cranky, it's hilarious.

(800' AGL)

"Confirm Delta 106 cleared to land?"

"NEIN! Delta VON... ZERO... ZIXXxxxx. You are not cleared to land because I heff not cleared you to land yet. If you verr cleared to land, I vould zay 'Delta von zero zix cleared to land, but I did not. In fact, Delta von zero zix, cleared to land."

Flare!

Least Favorite:
Well, Frankfurt for the same reasons.
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So true. If you're lucky, tower tells you on intial contact: "expect landing clearence on short final". In fact, they mean 150' AGL and below... Munich is the same, but much friendlier controllers.
 
CONUS:

Least Fav: ATL, a headache of an airport as a pax. More or less like any other large hub airport as a pilot.

Most Fav: MZJ, lots of history in the boneyard of planes there and still govt/Company crap thats not too obvious, but not too secret neither.
 
Soul Brotha' said:
Favorite- JFK
I'm a New Yorker and if you have a problem with JFK then you are the problem. Great controllers with an excellent sense of humor.
jetBlue XXX-"What's are sequence?"
JFK-"34."
Delta XXX-"What's are sequence?"
JFK-"34."
AA XXX-"Can we shut them down when we reach the end?"
JFK-"I don't know, can you?"

Least favorite-ATL/PHL/CLT
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That's JFK to a "T"! :)

I love it because when we're on a massive ground delay on the tarmac (!!), it's entertaining to listen to ground control bring the smack down.

There was a BA flight one night that was asked to turn right and taxi clockwise on ALPHA and to hold short of VICTOR for the sequence to 22R.

"Ground, wouldn't it be more efficient if he just waited on VICTOR for our sequence?"

"Ok Speedbird, VICTAH! Left on BRAVO, hold showt of WHISKEY monitah tower 23-9 at WHISKEY"

Unless it's safety related, you just don't ask questions when they're staking up.
 
Newark is a mess when the weather shows up, but the controllers there are fantastic.

I enjoyed working in and out of KBUR for the most part.

And WTF is the deal with SLC? It's the only airport in the country I have seen GROUND calls YOU at the spot.
 
Favorite: EWR on the last leg since I'm on a 30 minute drive from home :)
but I'd probably say HSP (Hot Springs, VA) is my favorite.


Least favorite: STL- Nothing wrong with the place, I just have horrible luck there.
 
I'm partial to DFW, if only because when I finish flying there, I get to get in my car and go home. Approach, tower, and ground ops are very simple and predictable.

Can't say I have a least favorite.

I'm not a big fan of St. Louis. STL always seems to get their panties in a bunch about Ground Metering, etc. They'll yell at you to get off Ground and call Metering for sequencing.. then never use Ground, etc. Meanwhile, it's a ghost town.
 
Firebird2XC said:
I'm not a big fan of St. Louis. STL always seems to get their panties in a bunch about Ground Metering, etc. They'll yell at you to get off Ground and call Metering for sequencing.. then never use Ground, etc. Meanwhile, it's a ghost town.
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Not to mention the slam dunk they sometimes give you when arriving from the east with east flow.
 
Cav said:
Not to mention the slam dunk they sometimes give you when arriving from the east with east flow.
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Both of you guys are 110% spot on.

I have never entered the downwind at STL any lower than 10,000' AGL, and every time approach asked, "Jetlink, can you make a short approach?"

Of course, here, let me get the gear out now.

Then, when we get the airplane turned around and, God forbid, you call "ground" even though you're on "metering," get ready to get your head ripped off.
 
jtrain609 said:
Both of you guys are 110% spot on.

I have never entered the downwind at STL any lower than 10,000' AGL, and every time approach asked, "Jetlink, can you make a short approach?"

Of course, here, let me get the gear out now.

Then, when we get the airplane turned around and, God forbid, you call "ground" even though you're on "metering," get ready to get your head ripped off.
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It can be really bad at night when they don't have the runways lit up. I'll admit to going around one night.
 
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