The Airports page is the desk's airport reference, laid out like the Weather and NOTAMs desks: the shared stations rail on the left holds your saved airports and collections, and the wide pane is the airports board or the open airport. Search from the rail's field, or open a saved or recent airport in one click; an open airport fills the pane and lives in the address bar, so a bookmark or a Cmd+K jump lands straight on it. Airport identity comes from the bundled offline database; the weather on a field page is fetched live and stamped with its source and age, and the page foots itself with the weather module's framing, "Reference only - verify officially."

Find your way around

Region	What it shows
Stations rail	The add field at the top ("Find an airport - ICAO, IATA or name", the page's search), then Refresh, Edit and Organise; your saved airports under Not in a group and each collection as a folded or open section; an unsaved airport you opened rides a read-only Viewing row with Save this airport. Every card says what the field is, never its weather: a runway-count plate, the elevation and the longest runway with its ends, and a type chip (Large, Medium, Small, Heliport, Seaplane) tinted by kind. The foot holds Saved, Countries and Nearby doorways, and Board while an airport is open
Airports board	The pane when nothing is open: the airports on your active or next flight, then Saved airports (up to six, with View all N in Saved past that) and Recently viewed, as glance cards three across - the code and IATA, the type chip, a miniature runway board drawn to proportion, ELEV, LONGEST RWY and RUNWAYS cells, the field's local time and "Source: OurAirports · bundled reference"
Station panel	The open airport's identity line, its actions (Favourite, Field NOTAMs), the live band and the field-facts line
Reference pane	Two columns: Runways and Frequencies on the left; Location, Official AIP, Sun & day · today and My notes on the right

Below 768 px the page keeps its stacked landing with the search in the page header; at desk width the rail's field is the search.

The Airports page with EGLL open, headed Airport reference, EGLL: the stations rail on the left with EGLL highlighted under Not in a group beside EDDF, LFPG and EHAM, the Iberia rotation collection with LEMD and LEPA, and Board, Saved, Countries and Nearby at its foot; on the right a station panel reading EGLL London Heathrow Airport, LHR, Large airport, Scheduled service, London, GB, with Favourite and Field NOTAMs buttons, a live band reading VFR with a Steady chip and Observed 18:50Z 33m ago, then WIND 330/06, WEATHER None, CEILING NCD, VIS 9999, TEMP/DEW 18/11 and QNH 1025, the raw METAR EGLL 231850Z AUTO 33006KT 300V020 9999 NCD 18/11 Q1025 with Source SADIS (UK Met Office) and its fetch time, a facts line of ELEVATION 83 ft, LONGEST RWY 12,802 ft 09L/27R, RUNWAYS 4 ends, 2 physical, 164 ft wide, and MAG VARIATION Not available, and a RUNWAYS panel, 4 ends, 2 physical, drawing 09L/27R at 12,802 by 164 ft and 09R/27L at 12,008 by 164 ft to scale around a 330 degree 6 kt wind arrow, with a FAV 27L chip, a north arrow, a 2,000 ft scale bar and a SURVEYED tag, footed Drawn to scale from surveyed threshold coordinates and Schematic markings - not for navigation, above the start of a line explaining the headwind and crosswind on each runway end — An open airport: the station panel with the live band, raw METAR and field facts, over the runway diagram drawn to scale with the wind.

How to open an airport

Click Airports in the sidebar.
Type in the field at the top of the rail (press A to focus it) - an ICAO such as EGLL, an IATA code, a city or part of the name. Results appear as you type.
Press Enter or click a result. The airport is saved to your list and fills the pane; the address bar reads /airports?icao=EGLL, so you can bookmark it or share the link. Clicking a card already in the rail opens it the same way.
To go back to the board, click Board in the rail's foot or Back in the slim bar above the pane; the ?icao= part leaves the address bar with it.

The Airports board with no airport open: on the left the stations rail headed AIRPORTS 6, with Refresh, Edit and Organise buttons, a Find an airport - ICAO, IATA or name field with an A keycap, Not in a group (4) holding EDDF, LFPG, EHAM and EGLL and the Iberia rotation collection (2) holding LEMD and LEPA, each card with a runway-count plate, the name, elevation, the longest runway with its ends and a Large chip, and a New group field over Saved, Countries and Nearby; on the right an ON YOUR ROUTE band reading EGLL to LEPA, in 2 days, with an Open briefing button and glance cards for EGLL marked DEP, LEPA marked DEST and LEIB Ibiza marked ALTN, then SAVED AIRPORTS, 6 stations, with starred cards for LEPA, LEMD, EDDF, LFPG, EHAM and EGLL, every card showing the code and IATA, the name, a miniature runway diagram, ELEV, LONGEST RWY and RUNWAYS cells, such as 83 ft, 12,799 ft 09L/27R and 2 for EGLL, the local time, Scheduled service, an Open button and Source: OurAirports, bundled reference — The airports board: the stations rail on the left, the airports on your next flight across the top, and your saved airports as glance cards of field facts, never weather.

How to read the station panel

The identity line: the ICAO in large type, the airport name, then a quiet line of IATA, type, "Scheduled service" or "No scheduled service", and city and country.
The live band: a state block with the flight-rules category and a trend chip over the "OBSERVED 14:50Z" stamp with its age in words beside it ("31m ago", toned as the age chips are), then cells for Wind, Weather, Ceiling, Vis, Temp/Dew and QNH from the current METAR, all on one row. A field with no report reads "No current METAR for EGXX".
The raw METAR sits under the band with its provenance on the same line: "Source:" and "Fetched:", plus "Cached, updating" or "Cached, fetch failed" when the desk is showing an older report.
The field-facts line: Elevation, Runways, Longest RWY and Mag variation; a figure the database does not carry reads "Not available".
Click Favourite to save the field to your list (it joins Not in a group on the rail), or Field NOTAMs to jump to the NOTAM board (below).

The band is a reading, not a verdict: it shows the report the desk fetched, stamped with when. For the TAF, the trend and the station history, open the same field on the Weather workbench.

How to read the reference pane

Panel	What it holds
Runways	"N ends · N physical"; each runway end with its length bar and, with a current wind report, the wind on that end. Without one it says "No current wind report for this field, so the wind on each runway is not shown." US airports add published declared distances (TORA, TODA, ASDA, LDA) from the FAA NASR cycle, with a "Cycle expired" label once a newer cycle exists
Frequencies	"N listed", in Type, Description and MHz columns - ATIS, Ground, Approach / Departure, Clearance Delivery and the rest
Location	ICAO / IATA, Name, Type, Served, Elevation and Coordinates
Official AIP	A link to "The state's own AIS portal - external website; some portals need a free account." or, with no country on file, "No official AIP link on file"
Sun & day · today	Sunrise, Sunset, Civil twilight and Day length for the field
My notes	Your own PPR (Required or Not required), HOURS, GROUND HANDLING, PREFERRED RUNWAYS and NOTES, behind Add note and Edit

Every data panel carries the source footer of the data it shows, and the page ends with "Reference only - verify officially." If the airport is on one of your planned flights, an On route section names the flight with its STD and an Open briefing button.

How to jump to the field's NOTAMs

On an open airport, click Field NOTAMs. Its label says what it does: "Open field NOTAMs for EGLL on the NOTAMs board - not checked on this page".
The field is added to the NOTAM station list if it is not there already, and the NOTAMs board opens narrowed to that station.
If the station list is full the page says "NOTAM station list is full (8 stations) - remove one there to add EGLL."

Narrowing is a filter, never a verdict. Neither page reads as "checked" or "all clear".

How to keep favourites, recents and groups

Click Favourite on any open airport, or Save this airport on its Viewing row. It joins Not in a group in the rail and the board's glance cards. Removing a card from the rail unsaves it and unfiles it everywhere, with Undo on the toast.
Recently viewed fills itself from the airports you open.
Press G, or use the new-group field in the rail's foot, to make a collection ("EU hubs"); drag a card onto its header, or open the card's menu and tick the collection, to file an airport in it (hold Alt while dropping to copy rather than move). Hover the header for Rename, Refresh this group, Add stations to and Remove group - the airports stay saved. Saved airports outside a collection keep no order of their own, so a drag between two loose cards offers no slot; drop it on a collection's header instead.
Click Organise in the rail header for Organise stations: every airport against every collection as a tick grid, saved as you go.
Click Saved in the rail's foot for the Saved page ("Groups & favourites"). Its folder button in the header opens the Airport collections dialog: your collections as tiles on a rail, the members pane with each airport's code, name and last-known category chip, an add bar, Load into Brief to send the collection to the Weather workbench, and Delete with its note ("Removes the collection only. Saved airports stay saved."). "Collections stay on this device."

A loaded collection is the Weather workbench's card grid: one card per airport with its category, name and WIND, VIS and CEIL cells, a remove cell and a drag grip on each ("Drag to reorder, or press the arrow keys while focused"), and Edit / Done for renaming. A collection past the fetch cap shows an honest "Not fetched" card rather than a spinner.

How to browse the database

Click Countries in the rail's foot (or Browse by country on an empty board).
On the Browse airports page, whose subtitle counts the airports and countries on the device, filter the country rail by "Country or code" and order it A-Z or By size.
Click a country. The pane lists its airports with ICAO, IATA, Airport, City, Type, Service and Elev columns; filter it by "ICAO, IATA, name or city", and narrow the type from the row above the rail: All types, or any of Large, Medium, Small, Heliport and Seaplane.
Click a row to open the airport.

The Browse airports page, reached from Airports, subtitled 19,168 airports, 240 countries, offline: a type filter row with All types ticked beside Large, Medium, Small, Heliport and Seaplane, a COUNTRIES rail of 240 with a Country or code filter, a By size and A-Z switch set to By size, and rows with flags, counts and bars for Brazil 2,863, United States 2,467, Australia 1,937, Chile 497, Germany 479, Russia 465 and more, footed 19,168 airports on device, and a pane headed Brazil, BR, 2,863 airports in the offline database, with an ICAO, IATA, name or city search field, count cards for AIRPORTS 2,863 with 129 with scheduled service, LARGE 28, MEDIUM 107, SMALL 2,001, HELIPORTS 727 and SEAPLANE 0, the hint Click a column to sort, a row opens the full briefing, and a table with ICAO, IATA, AIRPORT, CITY, TYPE, SERVICE and ELEV columns listing large airports marked SCHED, such as SBBV Boa Vista, SBFI Foz do Iguacu, SBSP Sao Paulo, SBCT Curitiba and SBSV Salvador, each with a star and an open arrow — Browse by country: the country rail on the left, and the selected country as a filterable table of every airport in the offline database.

Nearby in the rail's foot lists medium and large airports around your location or an ICAO, with a Search wider button for a bigger radius; smaller fields and heliports are not shown, and the map needs a connection.

How to measure between two airports

Open Tools in the sidebar and click Airport distance ("Great-circle distance & bearing").
Type the From and To ICAO codes; Swap reverses them.
Read the Distance in NM, the Initial bearing, and the same distance in Kilometres and Statute miles.

The tool says what it is: "Great-circle distance on a conventional spherical earth; not a routed or flown distance."

How to compare airports side by side

The comparison table lives on the Weather workbench: load the airports on its board and click Compare ("Compare airports side by side"). The Compare airports page sets two to eight airports as columns with category, observation age, ceiling, visibility, wind and QNH as rows, and attaches no verdict. See Weather.

On iPhone and iPad

The phone keeps the same database, favourites and groups, and the airport screen there carries its own weather and NOTAM segments; the desk page drops those segments because the Weather workbench and the NOTAM board already hold the full picture. See Airports on iPhone.

Troubleshooting

"Airport not found" or "Invalid ICAO code". The page says "No data available for EGXX." when the bundled database has no such field, and names the code when it is not a valid ICAO shape. Try the IATA code, the city or the name in the search field.

The search says "Loading the airport database - results will appear in a moment." The bundled database is still opening in this browser, usually on the first visit. The results fill in once it is ready; the search never answers "no match" before then.

The live band shows dashes. The field published no METAR ("No current METAR"), or the desk is offline and has nothing cached. The band never fills a missing value.

Mag variation reads "Not available". The bundled data carries no magnetic variation for the field. Check your official source.

A bookmark opens the board instead of the airport. The address needs the ?icao= part, for example /airports?icao=EGLL. Open the airport and bookmark again.

The rail cards show no weather. By design: the rail says what each field is - its runways, elevation and type - and the weather lives on the open airport's station panel and on the Weather desk.

Where next

NOTAMs - the board Field NOTAMs lands on, narrowed to the field.
Weather - the full station readout, the group card grid and the comparison table.
Ops Map - the same airports on the chart.
Keyboard and command deck - Cmd+K and the airport jump.