On Mar 27, 1:51 pm, "xyzzy" wrote:
Looks like this Friday I may be picking up a family member on the way
to KHYA. I'll be leaving from KTTA in NC and we're trying to decide
which airport would be better to pick up a pax at in a C172. The
choices are KBOS, KPVD, or KIAD (she's in Syracuse and will have to
fly commercial to one of those airports). Airnav shows high landing/
ramp fees and expensive FBO's at all of them. KBOS looks like the
worst. Anyone have any experience or recommendations for either of
those airports? TIA.

Thank you everybody for the advice.

In answer to some questions:

1. Why not pick her up at SYR? If I owned a plane I would do that and
it would be a no brainer. That would probably be a better flight
because it would avoid going through NYC like going straight to HYA
would. But this is a club plane, and there are scheduling issues.
She needs to be in SYR at a specific time which would require me to
get the plane for a day earlier than I had originally scheduled, and
it is not available then. Feh. This is the time for all the owners to
smile and say that the extra expense is worth it . In nearly four
years of being a club pilot this is the only time it's really bitten
me hard.

2. Why not BWI or PHL? simply because those didn't come up when she
was searching flights from SYR. We did go look again for those
cities.

The final conclusion was that commercial flights for her to meet me
are just prohibitively expensive because we're looking at buying
tickets a day or two in advance with no Saturday stayover, and
Southwest does not serve SYR. There is a funeral involved, which is
why it wasn't planned farther in advance. So there will be no pickup
at commercial airports.