Flagstaff Pulliam Airport

Flagstaff Pulliam Airport (IAT: FLG, FAA LID: FLG, ICAO: KFLG) is located in Coconino County, Arizona, 5 miles south of Flagstaff. Flagstaff Pulliam Airport serves domestic flights, and there are no international flights from FLG airport.

Flagstaff Pulliam Airport

Basic Information

Flagstaff Pulliam Airport (IAT: FLG, FAA LID: FLG, ICAO: KFLG) is located in Coconino County, Arizona, 5 miles south of Flagstaff. Flagstaff Pulliam Airport serves domestic flights, and there are no international flights from FLG airport.

Flagstaff Pulliam Airport is a public airport, and it serves Flagstaff, Arizona. The owner and the operator of the Flagstaff Pulliam Airport are the City of Flagstaff. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011-2015 categorized FLGas a primary commercial service airport. The FLG airport is served by two major airlines, and it is also used for General Aviation. As the Federal Aviation Administration records say, FLG airport had over 51,765 passenger boardings in 2008.

In the calendar year 2009, it had 66,627 passenger boardings and 62,109 boardings in 2010.

Capacity

The Flagstaff Pulliam Airport covers 763 acres of land at an elevation of 7, 014 feet. FLG has one asphalt runway 3/21, is 8,800 ft × 150 ft.

At the end of 2017, Flagstaff Pulliam Airport had 43,527 aircraft operations, an average of 119 per day. Flagstaff Pulliam Airport is served by two airlines American Eagle and United Express.

American Eagle has flights to Dallas/Fort Worth Phoenix Sky Harbor. United Express has flights to Denver. FLG top domestic destinations are Phoenix, Arizona, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, Denver Colorado, and Los Angeles, California.

History and airline operations

The Flagstaff Pulliam Airport was constructed in 1949. FLG covered 789 acres of US Forest Service land. In 1969, the original FLGrunway was widened to 150 feet and lengthened to 7000 feet. In 2007, the FLG runway was further extended to its current length of 8800 feet.

The FLGfacility is a non-hub commercial service and general aviation airport owned and operated by the city of Flagstaff. FLG airport is considered as one of the highest elevation air carrier airports in the United States. Flagstaff Pulliam Airport was named after the first city manager, who was a forty-four-year city employee.

In June of 1950, Frontier Airlines commenced scheduled flights to and from the Flagstaff. Frontier airlines have provided direct flights to Phoenix, but Frontier service ended in 1979. Since that time, several Air carriers have provided continuous airline service, and These include Desert Air service, Cochise airlines, Desert Pacific airlines, Sunwest airlines, and Skywest airlines. Today, Skywest airlines operating as American Eagle, added new flights to Dallas Fort Worth international airport. Trans State Airlines operating as United Express, began flights from Flagstaff to Denver International airport in 2019.