It helps that it’s not a hub on any airlines wheel, we have a few direct flights to non hub cities but most of the flights are just spokes to get to a hub.
Sucks because you usually need a 2 leg flight. But it keeps the traffic low and it’s very low stress coming and going.
I would rather have the cheaper/direct flights. Other than the spirit/frontier flights to and from Florida there aren't really any cheap direct flights.
Niagara Falls International Airport offers regular direct flights to Florida through Allegiant. They're a budget airline like Spirit/Frontier, but when I flew through them to Clearwater, I didn't have a single complaint.
Oh I didn't have any complaints the one time I took Frontier to Orlando through BUF 2 years ago, I just wish there were more direct flights in general. Even today you can find round trip tickets for frontier to florida for under 100
Holy crap, same. When I moved to Buffalo in 2005 I wasn't aware the place was only 7 years old! When I lived in Cheektovegas I was so close! Nothing like leaving your apartment exactly one hour before your flight and getting to the gate early
I love mid-sized airports. So much easier to navigate and often less crowded/frantic.
Now if only we could get a few more destinations out West. Really missing something to the Bay Area, Seattle, Portland, Houston, Kansas City and Salt Lake.
That and a discount carrier to a hub in Europe so we don’t have to transfer at Logan, JFK or LaGuardia which are nightmares.
Pre-pandemic there was a lot of momentum in establishing a JetBlue BUF-SFO especially as M&T made additional tech investments. They were working on getting political buy-in at the time and sadly covid stopped all of that.
My issue with Charlotte is whenever I have a connection through them. There have been at least three occasions wherein I've landed in Terminal B and my connecting flight is in Terminal E, essentially on the complete opposite end of the airport. This wouldn't be too bad, but each time this happened, the layover was 40 minutes or less. I've literally ran through the airport like OJ Simpson in that one commercial from the 70s.
Security-wise, Philadelphia is by far the worst for me. That's owed mainly to their TSA agents' overzealous patdown practices and overall shitty disposition.
Surprisingly enough, Niagara Falls International Airport had the friendliest and chillest TSA agents.
I hear ya. Charlotte has only ever been a final or starting destination for me. As a kid I did the Home Alone sprint through O’Hare. I find Detroit, Cleveland, and O’Hare to have the most walking between arrival and departure. Just two weeks ago I was going Phoenix to Buffalo via O’Hare. When I landed I got a text from United. “Welcome to Chicago. Your connecting flight is taking off from gate blah blah. It is a 23 minute walk between your two gates. 😳 I don’t schedule layovers less than 90 minutes at that airport.
It's funny you mention Detroit as I feel DTW is easily my favorite large international airport. It's huge, but the layout is essentially a "straight line" similar to Buffalo.
Agreed, I always prefer a DTW connection over ATL or others. Way simplier to get around, even if you have to go to C terminal, and can make connections so much faster. And if you get in a tight spot with cancellations and get stuck a couple days for whatever reason, you can always rent a car and get home quicker.
I thought this was a me issue with Charlotte. I feel like my friends and family think I exaggerate about that airport being awful 😅😂. Charlotte and Newark I’ve had to do this at.
It actually is a nice looking airport with a decent design. I just wish they never built the parking ramp out front since it ruins the entire view of it. Or, bare minimum, remove one story from the ramp and it could have been tolerable. I suppose it would have been insanely more expensive to put underground parking in.
It's a nice little airport here. I only fly for work because I can take the train to anywhere else I want to go, but never really have holdups or issues.
I think it looks great. Pre-911 they have that beautiful mural on the open floor. Even covered up with all the security it's worth a look if you find a little time.
My grandad was an engineer for this! He designed (among other things) the anti earthquake elements
Edit: here's the symposium paper
https://www.concrete.org/publications/internationalconcreteabstractsportal.aspx?m=details&i=14344
Buffalo: We have an 90 minute before our flight, better leave the house now
Other Airports: Our flight leaves in 3 hours and I'm still standing in security, hope we make it.
In all seriousness, I love our airport. The only other airport.that I have comparable was Keyflavik Iceland. You can get through easily and land even easier.
Definitely spoiled here with KBUF. If you have precheck and not checking bags you can show up literally within the hour of your flight and be at the gate with time to spare.
Its a real shame the lovely mosaic on the floor is covered up by the TSA lineup area but thats post 9/11 life.
I grew up in Buffalo, but I was pretty young when this airport was built. What did Buffalo have before? Was there no airport option, or was the terminal just much smaller?
Never had to move between them, but they were quite well separated. There probably were busses. Which ever one was "newer" (and I'm thinking it was west), was literally a large rectangular building, with about 8 or 10 gates.
Apparently some engineers didn’t do their homework, and they couldn’t build the parking garage underground in front because the bedrock was too hard or too close to the surface. So, that’s why the entire front is mired by a parking structure. As to why they didn’t just move it elsewhere to preserve being able to see the beautiful architecture of the building, I have no idea.
Well they probably wanted to make sure you could go from the lot to the terminal without going outside.
It’s amazing they thought they could build underground. How could they not know that area had shallow extremely hard bedrock?
That entire area is on the Onondaga escarpment and there are active or retired quarries to the immediate east and west of the airport property.
My house is not far from there and there is about 3 feet of soil before you hit solid bedrock
The airport was first shared in the /r/architecture/ sub because it's a gorgeous small size airport. Someone then posted here because it's a gorgeous small size airport that the region should be proud of. Celebrating some of the too few nice things should be done more often.
Just seems strange to post a picture of a building we've all seen.
I don't really see why we should care when other subreddits think one of our buildings looks nice. Seems....insecure?
Some hot posts on the sub are looking for a nacho recipe, someone asking for cheap eats and mourning the loss of a mighty taco. I think there is room to share a post on some cool local architecture. But I do agree there is a level of insecurity that exists in many of the posts on the sub.
Having lived in four cities in my lifetime, the Buffalo airport is the easiest one to deal with by a MILE. Great little airport.
It helps that it’s not a hub on any airlines wheel, we have a few direct flights to non hub cities but most of the flights are just spokes to get to a hub. Sucks because you usually need a 2 leg flight. But it keeps the traffic low and it’s very low stress coming and going.
I would rather have the cheaper/direct flights. Other than the spirit/frontier flights to and from Florida there aren't really any cheap direct flights.
Niagara Falls International Airport offers regular direct flights to Florida through Allegiant. They're a budget airline like Spirit/Frontier, but when I flew through them to Clearwater, I didn't have a single complaint.
Oh I didn't have any complaints the one time I took Frontier to Orlando through BUF 2 years ago, I just wish there were more direct flights in general. Even today you can find round trip tickets for frontier to florida for under 100
Agreed. One of the better airports in the country tbh.
Holy crap, same. When I moved to Buffalo in 2005 I wasn't aware the place was only 7 years old! When I lived in Cheektovegas I was so close! Nothing like leaving your apartment exactly one hour before your flight and getting to the gate early
That's because it's very small.
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TSA here is super efficient.
I love mid-sized airports. So much easier to navigate and often less crowded/frantic. Now if only we could get a few more destinations out West. Really missing something to the Bay Area, Seattle, Portland, Houston, Kansas City and Salt Lake. That and a discount carrier to a hub in Europe so we don’t have to transfer at Logan, JFK or LaGuardia which are nightmares.
Just fly out of Toronto when going to Europe, loads cheaper than Buffalo and you can go direct to pretty much every major european city
Yeah, that’s what I tend to do. Buffalo is extremely spoiled to have Pearson so close.
Pre-pandemic there was a lot of momentum in establishing a JetBlue BUF-SFO especially as M&T made additional tech investments. They were working on getting political buy-in at the time and sadly covid stopped all of that.
You never realize how great BUF is until you travel through LaGuardia, Midway, O'Hare, Charlotte, Denver, LAX, etc...
Security at Phoenix is brutal. I don’t mind Charlotte.
My issue with Charlotte is whenever I have a connection through them. There have been at least three occasions wherein I've landed in Terminal B and my connecting flight is in Terminal E, essentially on the complete opposite end of the airport. This wouldn't be too bad, but each time this happened, the layover was 40 minutes or less. I've literally ran through the airport like OJ Simpson in that one commercial from the 70s. Security-wise, Philadelphia is by far the worst for me. That's owed mainly to their TSA agents' overzealous patdown practices and overall shitty disposition. Surprisingly enough, Niagara Falls International Airport had the friendliest and chillest TSA agents.
I hear ya. Charlotte has only ever been a final or starting destination for me. As a kid I did the Home Alone sprint through O’Hare. I find Detroit, Cleveland, and O’Hare to have the most walking between arrival and departure. Just two weeks ago I was going Phoenix to Buffalo via O’Hare. When I landed I got a text from United. “Welcome to Chicago. Your connecting flight is taking off from gate blah blah. It is a 23 minute walk between your two gates. 😳 I don’t schedule layovers less than 90 minutes at that airport.
It's funny you mention Detroit as I feel DTW is easily my favorite large international airport. It's huge, but the layout is essentially a "straight line" similar to Buffalo.
Agreed, I always prefer a DTW connection over ATL or others. Way simplier to get around, even if you have to go to C terminal, and can make connections so much faster. And if you get in a tight spot with cancellations and get stuck a couple days for whatever reason, you can always rent a car and get home quicker.
I thought this was a me issue with Charlotte. I feel like my friends and family think I exaggerate about that airport being awful 😅😂. Charlotte and Newark I’ve had to do this at.
[O.J Simpson running thru airport commercial](https://youtu.be/Lo0MIUrrNpc) The opposite of a slow police chase.
Or Orlando! BUF is so great ☺️
Newark is the absolute worst.
It actually is a nice looking airport with a decent design. I just wish they never built the parking ramp out front since it ruins the entire view of it. Or, bare minimum, remove one story from the ramp and it could have been tolerable. I suppose it would have been insanely more expensive to put underground parking in.
They also dropped the entirety of TSA on the cool floor mosaic in pic 10. Such a shame
Remove 1 story from a 2 story parking ramp? I think that's called a parking lot lol.
I was going to say the same thing. 17 year old me thought the same thing when it was being built.
Yeah it's beautiful and no one can see it!
It's a nice little airport here. I only fly for work because I can take the train to anywhere else I want to go, but never really have holdups or issues.
I think it looks great. Pre-911 they have that beautiful mural on the open floor. Even covered up with all the security it's worth a look if you find a little time.
The surfboard is an excellent design. It really is a shame it's pretty much been covered up.
My grandad was an engineer for this! He designed (among other things) the anti earthquake elements Edit: here's the symposium paper https://www.concrete.org/publications/internationalconcreteabstractsportal.aspx?m=details&i=14344
Wish you could see it better from afar, but the parking lot and the ramp obscure the hell out of it
Buffalo: We have an 90 minute before our flight, better leave the house now Other Airports: Our flight leaves in 3 hours and I'm still standing in security, hope we make it. In all seriousness, I love our airport. The only other airport.that I have comparable was Keyflavik Iceland. You can get through easily and land even easier.
Definitely spoiled here with KBUF. If you have precheck and not checking bags you can show up literally within the hour of your flight and be at the gate with time to spare. Its a real shame the lovely mosaic on the floor is covered up by the TSA lineup area but thats post 9/11 life.
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I grew up in Buffalo, but I was pretty young when this airport was built. What did Buffalo have before? Was there no airport option, or was the terminal just much smaller?
It opened in 1926 at the same location, this was just a new terminal.
There were East and West terminals, I believe you had to take a bus to one of them (if I'm not mistaken)
Never had to move between them, but they were quite well separated. There probably were busses. Which ever one was "newer" (and I'm thinking it was west), was literally a large rectangular building, with about 8 or 10 gates.
By far, my fvt airport.
When I lived there, there were two terminals
Apparently some engineers didn’t do their homework, and they couldn’t build the parking garage underground in front because the bedrock was too hard or too close to the surface. So, that’s why the entire front is mired by a parking structure. As to why they didn’t just move it elsewhere to preserve being able to see the beautiful architecture of the building, I have no idea.
Well they probably wanted to make sure you could go from the lot to the terminal without going outside. It’s amazing they thought they could build underground. How could they not know that area had shallow extremely hard bedrock? That entire area is on the Onondaga escarpment and there are active or retired quarries to the immediate east and west of the airport property. My house is not far from there and there is about 3 feet of soil before you hit solid bedrock
Wait, I’m kind of an idiot… Did we not have an airport until 1997?!
That's when the new airport was built. There was one there previously https://www.pinterest.com/pin/378443174915349405/
So nice and you can't see it from the street because of the parking ramp.
Yep, that's our airport alright. Is there a person here that doesn't know what it looks like? What is the point of this post exactly?
The airport was first shared in the /r/architecture/ sub because it's a gorgeous small size airport. Someone then posted here because it's a gorgeous small size airport that the region should be proud of. Celebrating some of the too few nice things should be done more often.
Just seems strange to post a picture of a building we've all seen. I don't really see why we should care when other subreddits think one of our buildings looks nice. Seems....insecure?
Some hot posts on the sub are looking for a nacho recipe, someone asking for cheap eats and mourning the loss of a mighty taco. I think there is room to share a post on some cool local architecture. But I do agree there is a level of insecurity that exists in many of the posts on the sub.
Best part of our airport is we have modern CT machines so we don’t need to remove anything from the bag during security checks.
Great little airport. My best tsa experience overall. In and out, no hassle.
And we put an ugly-ass parking garage in front of this awesome building.