When you fly home, what airport code is on your baggage tag?

[maveric]

SAN = San Diego

[matcom]

1. PVD or BOS

i'll let you guess :D

[DS1]

2. Either BOS or PVD

It used to be quicker to drive all the way into Rhode Island than into Logan airport.

[ronnykmarshall]

29. I've heard that Logan is a pain.

My parents want to go to Boston, but they would probably be scared to death to fly in to RI and drive into Boston.

What's the deal with Logan?

[Gormy Cuss]

37. Logan is very close to downtown - a plus

It's a small very busy airport. Lines can be ridiculous at every point. Think SFO after a morning of fog and that's normal at Logan.

It has an antiquated terminal circulation system -- bad, although improving.

It is and it isn't connected by subway. If you're not from there, it is a mind-numbing process to figure out how to get out of the airport on the T. Coming back on the T is easy. For getting around Boston proper, the T is the way to go if you don't have mobility limitations.

Rental car locations and egress from the airport is better than it used to be. Boston drivers deserve their reputations. The streets aren't on a grid, and traffic circles aren't for novices.

Cabbies are strictly regulated until they leave airport property. Getting a cab is easy, getting to where you're going by the most direct route is a crapshoot. Downtown is a short fare although you'd never know with some of the drivers.

Logan has many coast-to-coast nonstops.

But hell, Boston is a fine city and worth the trip.

[maveric]

42. Fly from Manchester NH. Easy to get to, short lines.

Less that an hour from Boston too.

[DS1]

39. Well, since you asked. Getting to and from Logan used to be a

really big pain in the balls. Now, thanks to the Big Dig, it's a hell of a lot easier, but a shitload more frustrating. Here's why.

The tunnel from the airport is two lanes, both same direction, and at one point it splits, the left side going to the Mass Pike, the right, to 93 N/S. I think, I could be wrong on this, but it's not the point.

Now, the majority of traffic is going towards the right lane option, and since it's a tunnel, there isn't room for screwing it up. So, a lot of people headed for the 93 exit (right) will jump in the 90 *Mass Pike* (left) lane and ride it out until the last possible moment. What they don't understand is that they, being Massholes, are surrounded by OTHER Massholes, who won't let them in the right lane - at the last moment. Like, a few feet away from where the walls split "last moment". So anyone trying to get to the Mass Pike *90* has to sit there, behind these assholes who expect someone to let them in the right lane, while looking at nothing but clear tunnel. For a good 30 minutes at times.

End Big Dig rant.

Before this, you had to basically hack your way through the jungle that is Boston city roads to get to the airport, where it was MUCH easier to simply get on a major highway and follow it down to Rhode Island and using the Airport's ( T.F. Green ) own dedicated exit. In other words, while the distance to get to RI is a hell of a lot longer, it used to be that driving to another state was faster than going to Logan.

That being said, I'd still recommend Providence, it's a nice little airport, better arranged than Logan.

[aePrime]

3. DIE

I think it's a bad omen.

[eyesroll]

4. MKE.

Very occasionally ORD.

[tjwmason]

5. LHR or LGW

London Heathrow (which is the closest easily), or London Gatwick (which I used this summer).

On edit - theoretically I could also use London Stansted, or London Luton but I can't remember their tags :crazy: .

[mwdem]

6. DFW or DLF

[GirlinContempt]

7. YWG

[Shell Beau]

8. JAN- Jackson

[Gormy Cuss]

9. SFO or OAK

There's also SJC but I haven't used it yet.

[ronnykmarshall]

30. OAK rocks.

I like having a second choice too. I prefer BUR over LAX. I used to fly out of OAK all the time when I lived in San Francisco. It was easier than SFO.

[Scout1071]

10. MCI.

Kansas City.

[no name no slogan]

11. MSP = Minneapolis/St Paul

[MalibuChloe]

12. LAX

[Initech]

13. One of the following: SNA, ONT, or LAX

SNA = Orange County John Wayne Intl'.

ONT = Ontario Intl.

LAX = Los Angeles Intl.

Unfortunately, I wont be able to add NZJ - El Toro Intl to that list.

[Kathleen04]

44. ONT for me

:)

[Initech]

70. I like ONT. Great airport.

After the last two times I flew, once was out of LAX, and the other was out of LGB, it only makes me appreciate ONT more.

[Hawkeye-X]

14. DEN

or DIA. Dead in Airport. Heh.

(Both are acceptable and coded that way)

[Hawkeye-X]

15. DEN

or DIA. Dead in Airport. Heh.

(Both are acceptable and coded that way)

[AllegroRondo]

16. YYZ

OK, not really. But I've always wanted to get a luggage tag from there.

[Initech]

25. I've always wanted to get one from FUK

The airport code there is for the city of Fukuoka, Japan.

[rockymountaindem]

32. Toronto?

All the Canadian airports start with Y for some reason.

That's the luggage tag I get when I fly back to college, btw.

[bertha katzenengel]

17. SNA - LAX - LGB

[Debi]

18. ALO = Waterloo

and when I go to visit my folks BZN = Bozeman

[Canadian Socialist]

19. CGY

Calgary. I hate this city (and province). I want to be back to WPG or at the very least, VAN

[SOteric]

20. SEA

[WeRQ4U]

21. MSP or BIS

Minneapolis, St. Paul or Bismarck

Depends on gas prices and whether I wantt o drive 8 hours.

[AngryAmish]

22. ORD

O'Hare. See it was originally Orchard Airport, then it expanded and named after WWII flying ace Butch O'Hare. At least they didn't name it after Richard Bong.

[El Fuego]

23. PBI

Palm Beach Int'l.

[skygazer]

24. SJC

And when I go "home" to visit, it's BDL.

[feminazi]

38. damn, skygazer

mine's exactly the same!

:hi:

[skygazer]

40. How cool is that?

Howdy, neighbor! :hi:

[NewJeffCT]

62. I'm a BDL person, too

but, i have no clue where SJC is

[skygazer]

68. SJC is San Jose, California

"Home" for me is southern Vermont and Bradley is the closest I can reasonably get to it.

[NewJeffCT]

80. wow, an intuitive airport code!

that's kind of rare.

[liberaltrucker]

26. BHM

Birmingham, AL

[ronnykmarshall]

27. BUR or LAX

Bob Hope Airport (Burbank) or Los Angeles International

[La Lioness Priyanka]

28. jfk/lga

[KitchenWitch]

31. MSP

[flamingyouth]

33. SEA - Seattle-Tacoma Intl. Airport.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. LAX.......

3 miles away...what else? It speaks home to me.......


:woohoo:

[AlCzervik]

35. Either SMF or SFO.

[Cadfael]

36. ORD or MDW

depends which airline I'm flying

[ronnykmarshall]

41. I've been to both ....

ORD is very well laid out. For a major airport that is.

[auntAgonist]

43. DTW and/or YYZ

[SeattleGirl]

45. SEA

Seattle.

[Lilyhoney]

46. sba

[Clintmax]

47. TLH

Tallahassee, Florida

[Kellanved]

48. TXL

or THF, or SFX.

[RebelOne]

49. ATL - Atlanta

[Left_Winger]

50. CAE

[jmowreader]

51. GEG - Spokane, Washington

The original name of the airport was Geiger Field, and I still call it that sometimes.

Strangely enough, you can mention that name to twentysomething Spokanites and they know exactly what you're talking about.

[Midlodemocrat]

52. RIC - Richmond

[mcscajun]

53. EWR = Newark, NJ

:)

'cept last year, when I flew back from Ireland, then it was JFK (not my choice -- most of the group were from NY)

[tallahasseedem]

54. TLH

[philosophie_en_rose]

55. SEA

PDX

[calico1]

56. Home to visit my parents is

SJU--San Juan.

Home to Ct its BDL--Hartford-Springfield.

[trof]

57. PNS

[yvr girl]

58. uh....YVR

Vancouver

[Withywindle]

59. My home airport now: ORD

When I visit my parents: either ROA or GSO (they're in between - two hour drive each way)


When I go with my mom to visit her family: SSA

[deadparrot]

60. STL. nt

[huskerlaw]

61. LNK or OMA

Lincoln or Omaha

But in a month...LAX or BUR ;)

[Wapsie B]

63. DSM-Des Moines or MSP

MSP is a fine airport except for one glaring mistake. The passenger pick up area is one big exercise in frustration. Whoever designed that area was asleep at the switch big time. There needs to be another way to do it other than having everyone try to jam into a curbside pickup area. Totally insane. Ruins an otherwise fine airport.

[Zero Division]

64. MLI

Moline, Illinois. Quad Cities International Airport.

[Blue_Tires]

65. ORF-Norfolk, VA

[BuddhaGirl]

66. SFO

rather a pain in the ass. I like flying in/out of Oakland whenever possible!

It used to be SNA (Orange County) before I moved to the Bay Area. Whenever the plane took off so steeply due to the short runway, I nearly always feel like I was going to barf LOL

[TomInTib]

75. same here

[DemoTex]

67. AVL or GSP (Asheville and Greenville-Spartanburg)

GSP has more non-stops to more places, although I seldom fly any more.

[yellowdogintexas]

69. DFW = Dallas Fort Worth for where I live now

BNA if I am going to visit one of my sisters (at our ancestral home)
BDL if I am visiting the other sister.


BNA is Nashville
BDL is Hartford-Springfield.

[RetroLounge]

71. MKE = Milwaukee

or ORD for Orchard Field in Chicago (O'Hare Field)

RL

[Dervill Crow]

72. PDX

[Rabrrrrrr]

73. HNL

At least, when I *did* live at home.

:cry:

[nytemare]

74. MCO

Orlando. Why the MCO, who knows?

[lumberingbear]

78. MCO here too.

MCO stands for McCoy Orlando. (Old airport name)

[nytemare]

82. I remember that airport.

I think they built the new one about two years after I moved here. That airport was tiny, and I wonder how they handled all the Disney tourists coming through there. Especially driving by it now on the beeline.

[samdogmom]

76. MSN

Madison, WI YEAH!

[ok_cpu]

77. CAK

[Wcross]

79. BNA.....Nashville. (closest commercial airport)

THA (tullahoma) is the closest general aviation airfield.

[Scooter24]

81. DFW

Dallas/Ft. Worth International