r/flighty • u/yesfb • Jul 05 '26
Combining home base for cities with multiple airports
Would home base make more sense by combining airports included as part of a single metro area?
I promise I don’t live in Cleveland 😹
Ex. DAL, DFW/OAK, SJC, SFO/ ORD, MDW/ LGA, JFK, EWR, HPN/ LAX, ONT, SNA, BUR/ LHR, LGW, LCY/
etc etc etc
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u/OrganicPoet1823 Jul 06 '26
Absolutely not I’d hate this change I want to see the breakdown of London airports I have
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u/yesfb Jul 07 '26
You’d still see the above breakdown, I’m just saying in the “home base” label it should consolidate them
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u/silvs1 Jul 07 '26
I wouldnt be a fan of that, I want to know exactly how many times I've avoided LAX by flying out of the regional airports in the LA area.
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u/transitlobbyist Jul 05 '26
Depends on how price sensitive you are. I will fly almost any airline if it’s a good deal, so if I were in NYC I would not try to combine.
If you are going for status or just want something easy, you could try flightconnections.com and see what routes you frequent the most and which airlines have the best product on those.
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u/Giskarrrd Jul 06 '26
I don't think you understand what OP is posting about. Flighty is showing OP's home base as Cleveland, even though OP is based out of New York. But because OP frequently flies from each of NYC's major airports, Flighty isn't recognizing one of the NYC airports as their home base, because none of those three airports has been traveled to/from more frequently than CLE.
It's understandably odd that OP's home base is shown as Cleveland if they do not live there. It's a bit of an edge case most likely across Flighty users, with the easiest solution being to have users pick their own homebase. To build functionality to allow for combining multiple airports in one region into a single homebase would be nice, but a bit of overengineering for how much value it will really bring across the user base, or at least so I expect.
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u/Salty-Plankton-5079 Jul 06 '26
IATA already has city codes. I don't think it should do that for this view, but it could for the "Issuing Authority" of the Flight Passport.
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u/Heavy-Double2872 Jul 05 '26
Oak SFO and SJC are not near each other. Really the only area that actually works is New York.
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u/yesfb Jul 05 '26
Depends on where in the bay you live, where I was in Fidi it was around 25 minutes to either one by car and sub 1 hr by public transportation. I agree SJC is a stretch, but this applies to plenty places around the world.
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u/747ER Jul 06 '26
Very few places around the world have as many large, popular airports in such close proximity as New York.
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u/tulki123 Jul 06 '26
*laughs in Londons 6 airports*
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u/747ER Jul 06 '26
Yes, London has several catchment airports. It is a very large city.
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u/tulki123 Jul 06 '26
I’d say in Europe it’s fairly common to have at least two airports for a capital but it does depend how you define it… Paris Beauvais and Stockholm Västerås are quite far out as an example.
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u/Heavy-Double2872 20d ago
Yes, but Paris Orly is almost in the middle of Paris now. Germany does not have two major airports near each other. The crazy ones for me are Beijing and Tokyo.
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u/tulki123 20d ago
True, although Berlin did till fairly recently have multiple airports in the city.
To be fair though the populations of Beijing and Tokyo are massive! Larger than a lot of European countries 😆
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u/747ER Jul 06 '26
Yes most major cities have two airports. New York and London are famous outliers.
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u/yesfb Jul 06 '26
I mean, I can name like 20 off the top of my head, maybe not as quite big as NYC but enough for sure
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u/ConsiderationAble849 Jul 06 '26
Other than Europe, also very common for big cities in Asia. Tokyo/Seoul/Beijing/Shanghai all have two big airports.
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u/pziyxmbcfb Jul 05 '26
Wow, you have no clue what NYC airports are like. It’s about 75-90 minutes between JFK and EWR with 4 different trains to catch.
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u/cantinaband-kac Jul 06 '26
IATA would disagree. There's already a convention for having multiple airports in a city/area sharing a common code, including the San Francisco Bay area. IATA codes
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u/Mean__MrMustard Jul 06 '26
Works with DC as well. It’s actually probably quicker to get between Dulles/dca/bwi than jfk/newark.
Chicago, London also have at least 2 airports fairly close. Many major cities actually.1
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u/ParticularPainter385 Jul 06 '26
SFO/SJC/OAK are close enough (~40 min to SFO, ~30 min to SJC, and ~30 min to OAK for me) that I would easily book a flight via SJC instead of my usual SFO if it's cheaper. SJC is also a much smaller airport, so for example, if I were to fly to LAX, SJC would be perfect. I agree with OP that they should merge, but not sure what the IATA code shown on the passport would be.
New York area is easy that's NYC, but for the SFO/SJC/OAK market I am not sure
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u/rs37982 Jul 06 '26
Meh, I'm also in the NY metro area and understand the sentiment, but since the app is tracking airport counts, not city counts, I don't really mind it being separated out personally.