Airport in your hometown, convenient?

[mamamary]

I'm about 30 mts or so away from bwi if there is no traffic

 

[Pixiepam]

Mine is about 20 minutes away and it's super easy.

 

[Carriemel]

I'm about 4 miles north of the airport - and I'm there EVERY Monday-Friday.

 

[Adipoo]

About an hour from BWI without traffic. In Los Angeles, about 15 miles from LAX. It takes around 25 minutes not using any highways.

 

[ols386]

A 40-minute drive from my house to the airport, but it's a pretty small airport, and so easy to get into and out of. I love it.

 

[mrsheppo]

RNO is 20 minutes from my house. I love that it is in a very convenient location. Going through security is a breeze. I don't think it has ever taken me over 10 minutes to get through the TSA line.

 

[bdcp]

5 miles (as the crow flies) or 15 minutes by car to Dulles Airport so not only close, but a large international airport too. Usually crazy busy and the last time I dropped DH off, I said, never again. He travels for business a bit and gets reimbursed for a cab, so he can do that. It takes me longer to drop him off once I get on the airport grounds and get off them again than it does to drive there.

 

[ashmarie06]

I live about 30 minutes away from the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Airport. I like flying out of it if I can get flights cheap enough. Its really nice and easy to navigate. I have flown out of the Louisville international airport, Dayton Airport and Columbus international airport.

 

[bcla]

I guess the answers seem to indicate the effects of suburban sprawl mixed with the locations where airports were built.

Also - getting to an airport terminal has a lot to do with where said terminal is in relation to major roads. I own a house near a major airport, although I no longer live there. In a straight line it's maybe 2 miles. However, I'm getting almost as long to get there to the general aviation entrance as to the passenger terminals (2 miles further). However, my house is really close. And if I check the map programs, they usually calculate right to the terminal door, and that adds time regardless of where you live. You're always going to be stuck in a maze of traffic for at least five minutes unless there's no light or traffic.

 

[bcla]

On a related note, what is your ideal airport? The major airports have the most flights and more direct flights. Often the prices are better, but there are a lot of variables. I guess it's a combination of size, navigability, distance, traffic patterns, prices, amenities, etc.

Since this is DIS, there's a lot of questions about which airport to take into Disneyland. SNA (aka John Wayne Airport or Orange County Airport) is obviously the closest, is extremely easy to navigate, and has all amenities on site (i.e. on-site car rentals). However, many have found that prices may not be that great and there may be limits regarding direct or nonstop flights. Then there are those who are OK with LAX. Some prefer LGB (Long Beach). If price is an issue, there's also Burbank. However, in such a large area, there are bound to be more options and perhaps something better for an individual's needs.

 

[minniecarousel]

We're 30 minutes to OAK, 45 minutes to SFO. I sure prefer to fly out of Oakland, but I'm a sucker for non-stops. So if I'm flying down to SoCal, no problem. Better selection from SFO for our flights to NY & WDW. JetBlue used to have non-stops to Orlando, but no more. Virgin makes us fly to LAX, then onto Orlando.

So far, to visit our son in the Hamptons, we've been flying non-stop to JFK. That's a red-eye out of San Francisco. I see to fly into Islip, Southwest will have us fly to Philadelphia, then Islip?

Oakland is a big enough airport, but I wish there were more variety.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Our local airport has a lot of traffic, but is in the between the two biggest cities in the area.

But the service isn't that great.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

20 miles from my house to Sacramento International, 25 minutes without traffic, 35 with. Used to be out in the boonies, but development is getting closer.
Getting there is very convenient, once there, with the "new terminal" they put in 15 years ago, and a second one about 4 years ago, it is a mess.
The newest terminal is the biggest mess. The terminal and the gates are in two differnet buildings, so you have to take a train to get to the gates. Huge backups waiting for the trains, and then when getting off to get through security. And the train breaks down frequently. They made no provision for the train breaking down, so they had to go back, spend a bunch of money to put in a pedestrian walkway along the train tracks so people can walk to the gates when the train breaks down. No fun in the rain.
The new setup is beautiful, but not nearly as easy to navigate as the old setup.

Sacramento used to be so easy. You just walked in, went up the escalators and the gates were right there. Talk about wrecking an airport.

 

[tvguy]

Sacramento used to be so easy. You just walked in, went up the escalators and the gates were right there. Talk about wrecking an airport.

I couldn't agree more.

 

[macraven]

i'm a 38 minute to milwaukee airport and a 43 minute drive on the toll way to ohare out of chicago.
problem with using o'hare is the tollway is a mess during rush hour traffic.

when i fly SW, i go to MKE
flying UA, go to ohare.

been finding UA cheaper than SW on my recent trips to orlando

 

[Bilberry]

Depending on traffic, the airport is around 45 minutes driving distance.

 

[DawnM]

Currently our airport is 30 min. without traffic. Not too bad.

When I lived in LA, we had multiple airports, and the closest was 15 min. (Burbank) However, 90% of the time I needed to go out of LAX and it was about 35 min. with no traffic but well, it was LA, so it was usually an hour or so unless I came home late at night.

 

[Colleen27]

The Detroit airport can be convenient or miserable depending on where in the metro area you live. It is in a southwest suburb and I've lived my whole life in the northeast suburbs so I fall pretty squarely in the "miserable" camp. It is an hour and a half from my house with no traffic and more like 2 hours on a normal day (not rush hour or anything). Whenever I can I fly out of Flint instead. It is further away in terms of miles but a quicker and more pleasant drive with little potential for traffic delays (not to mention, a smaller terminal, faster security, and cheaper parking).

 

[clori]

I live maybe 15 minutes from Logan but would never count on it just taking 15 minutes to get there. Growing up I would say Mancheser NH 40 minutes, Portland Maine 1.5 to 2 hours (would need to check) and Boston 1.5 hours. Portsmouth was about 25 minutes but I only went there when it was an airforce base and didn't have civilian flights.

 

[JaxDad]

It's been awhile but I used to love using Reagan National when I would travel to DC on business. The metro is right there, so I never needed a rental car or cab. With an early non-stop, I could leave my home in Florida in the morning and be at my desk in the Pentagon by 0900. There were also decent restaurants in the airport too, including a Legal Seafood right at my usual terminal.