Sites & Pages
Airport World and specifically its magazine issues.
Airport industry news with a wide array of topics and freely-accessible magazine volumes on-site! While the log of volumes begins in 2009, only Issue 04 from 2016 and onward are accessible from the website (if you go to its Issuu page, you can start at Issue 1 from 2013)!
Passenger Terminal Today, another magazine.
Definitely the most, well, passenger-and-terminal-focused of these sites. Besides the articles themselves, I like to look at all the the ads, especially the furniture (as if I'll ever be the one picking these things out). I'm fond of the graphic design in the magazine as well! All of the magazines on the site are readable on their app, but Passenger Terminal World Showcase 2022 and on can be read online without any downloads!
A fairly similar site to the others, although personally, I tend to find the topics covered by the other two a bit more compelling. Still worth a look!
Sometimes I wish that naming scheme had never taken off on Reddit. How am I supposed to talk about this to normal people in real life? Anyhow, this basically gets to the heart of what I really want: cool pictures of airports. Big shoutout to Rule 3, which specifies the pictures must be of airports, "not general flying/aircraft/aviation". Why would I want to see pictures of planes on my airport subreddit?
An older site (started in 2007) with a map of airports around the world! Comments are a little sparse these days, but there's still a few coming in, and it's neat to go back and read the ones from the aughts. The "random airport" button only ever takes me to Cat Bi International Airport in Vietnam, which makes me think it's been broken for a good while. That's a feature I'd love to implement on this site later on!
A neat little alphabetical list of three-letter airport codes, with a picture of each airport and an explanation of the code's meaning!
Special Mention: CarpetsForAirports
A defunct site that used to have an interactive map displaying, well, carpets for airports around the world. Shoutout to this article for preserving this screenshot of the site. The site has 257 captures on the Wayback Machine, with none of the dozens I've tried being functional. This kind of thing isn't really my strong suit, so I don't actually know if any of them could be. Still, I can dream...