Flagstaff (FLG)

The terminal as viewed from the ramp at FLG.

Flagstaff Pulliam Airport

Flagstaff, Arizona, United States

First visited 28 June 2014

Back in 2014, some friends from Tucson and I took a vacation in Flagstaff. I flew in to Tucson to drive up with them, but I had to leave earlier than they did, so I flew home out of Flagstaff. As a result, I only have a single visit to FLG, as I only had a departure flight (and not an arrival flight).

The flight was one of my shorter flights, too; 119 miles (191 km) to Phoenix.

Map of flight from FLG to PHX, showing a route over desert.

Satellite imagery from Google Earth

This route was almost entirely over desert. When our flight attendants was doing the standard safety briefing, I could hear the eye roll in the loudspeaker voice as they reached the “in the extremely unlikely event of a water landing…” part of the script. With that short of a flight in that terrain, I don’t think we could have landed on water if we were trying to.

A customized bike rack with a Flagstaff Airport logo.

To date, FLG is the only airport where I’ve seen a custom airport bike rack.

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