The Airports page is the desk's airport reference. Search from the page header, or keep favourites and recents one click away; an open airport fills the page and lives in the address bar, so a bookmark or a Cmd+K (Ctrl+K on Windows) 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
Page header	The Airports title and the search field ("ICAO, IATA, city or name")
Landing	"Search to begin", example ICAO chips, your Saved airports with a View all N in Saved link, Recently viewed, and three doorways: Browse by country, Nearby airports, Saved & collections
Results	"Results for ..." as cards with the ICAO, name and current flight-rules category
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

The Airport reference page for EGLL: a breadcrumb Airport reference / EGLL and a search field reading ICAO, IATA, city or name, a station panel with EGLL London Heathrow Airport, LHR, Large airport, Scheduled service, London GB, Favourite and Field NOTAMs buttons, a live band reading MVFR with a Worsening chip and Observed 21:50Z 14m ago, then WIND 240/08, WEATHER None, CEILING BKN025, VIS 9999, TEMP/DEW 20/19 and QNH 1022, the raw METAR EGLL 132150Z AUTO 24008KT 9999 SCT012 BKN025 20/19 Q1022 with Source aviationweather.gov and its fetch time, a facts line of ELEVATION 83 ft, LONGEST RWY 12,802 ft 09L/27R, RUNWAYS 4 ends 2 physical and MAG VARIATION Not available, a RUNWAYS panel drawing 09L/27R and 09R/27L to scale with a 240 degree 8 kt wind arrow, a FAV 27L chip and a SURVEYED tag, footed Drawn to scale from surveyed threshold coordinates, Schematic markings, not for navigation, a line explaining the headwind and crosswind on each runway end, and a LOCATION panel reading London Heathrow Airport, Large airport, EGLL LHR, London GB, 83 ft 25 m and 51.4707 N 0.4599 W with Source OurAirports, above an OFFICIAL AIP panel linking NATS AIS (United Kingdom) and a SUN & DAY panel — An open airport: the station panel with the live band and raw METAR, the field facts, then the runway diagram, location and the official AIP link.

How to open an airport

Click Airports in the sidebar.
Type in the search field in the page header - an ICAO such as EGLL, an IATA code, a city or part of the name. Results appear as you type.
Click a result. The airport fills the page and the address bar reads /airports?icao=EGLL, so you can bookmark it or share the link.
To go back to the landing, clear the search or use the browser's Back button; the ?icao= part leaves the address bar with it.

The Airports landing page: a Find an airport panel with a search field reading Search by ICAO, IATA or airport name - KJFK, EGLL, Heathrow, a QUICK OPEN row of LEPA, LEMD, EDDF, LFPG and EHAM chips and a VFR, MVFR, IFR and LIFR colour key, three doorway cards for Saved & collections, Browse by country and Nearby airports, and a SAVED AIRPORTS grid of 6 stations - LEPA, LEMD, EDDF, LFPG, EHAM and EGLL - each with its category chip, name and IATA, WIND, VIS and CEIL cells, a line reading No cached weather or 9999 BKN023, an Open link and a Source SADIS (UK Met Office) footer — The landing: search at the top, the three doorways, and your saved airports as cards with their last-known category.

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, a trend chip and "Observed HH:mmZ" with an age chip, then cells for Wind, Weather, Ceil/Vis, Temp/Dew and QNH from the current METAR. 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 star the field for the landing's Saved list, 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", as Type, Frequency and Description rows - 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. It joins Saved airports on the landing, with View all N in Saved when the list grows.
Recently viewed fills itself from the airports you open.
Click Saved & collections ("Favourites, notes and airport groups") for the Saved page: your saved airports, and your Groups. Click New collection, name it ("e.g. EU hubs") and save.
On the desk, groups are managed in the Manage collections dialog: add airports by search or from your favourites, remove one ("Removes the collection only. Saved airports stay saved." when you delete a group), or Load into Brief to send the group to the Weather workbench. "Collections stay on this device."

A loaded group 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 group past the fetch cap shows an honest "Not fetched" card rather than a spinner.

How to browse the database

Click Browse by country on the landing ("The full offline airport database").
On the Browse airports page ("Every airport on the device, by country"), 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, Elev and Service columns; filter it by "ICAO, IATA, name or city" and narrow the type with All types, Airports, Heliports or Seaplane, and Large, Medium or Small.
Click a row to open the airport.

The Browse airports page: a title reading Browse airports, 19,170 airports, 240 countries, offline, a type filter row with All types selected beside Large, Medium, Small, Heliport and Seaplane, a COUNTRIES rail of 240 with a Country or code filter, a By size and A-Z order switch and rows for Brazil 2,864, United States 2,467, Australia 1,937, Chile 497, Germany 479 and more with flags and counts, and a pane headed Brazil BR 2,864 airports in the offline database with count cards for AIRPORTS 2,864 with 129 with scheduled service, LARGE 28, MEDIUM 107, SMALL 2,001, HELIPORTS 728 and SEAPLANE 0, a search field reading ICAO, IATA, name or city, and a table with ICAO, IATA, AIRPORT, CITY, TYPE, SERVICE and ELEV columns listing SBBV, SBFI, SBSP, SBCT and other large airports marked SCHED, 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 airports ("Distance-ranked fields around you or an ICAO") lists medium and large airports around your location, 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 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 landing instead of the airport. The address needs the ?icao= part, for example /airports?icao=EGLL. Open the airport and bookmark again.

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.