How is this airport still in operation? This is less than a skeleton crew, there's only two people to work the whole airport, and the pilot and flight attendant only have one passenger for a massive jet. Times were more than hard in 2010 for LEGO City...

OSHA required this airport to meet a ladder quota, this was the bitter response.

Alongside the 2006 one, this is probably LEGO's best airport. I never owned it, but a childhood friend did.

@MCLegoboy said:
"How is this airport still in operation? This is less than a skeleton crew, there's only two people to work the whole airport, and the pilot and flight attendant only have one passenger for a massive jet. Times were more than hard in 2010 for LEGO City..."

There is nobody in the flight control tower. This could be a problem on a level not seen since Airplane! films of the 80's. I can hear it now:
Announcer on LEGO City Airport intercom: "Umm, this may be unrelated, but does anybody know how to land a plane... or a few planes?" *panic ensues in the terminal*

What a very straightforward set name.

Maybe it's just me, but it feels like Lego has really struggled with City airports, for the better part of the 00s.

This one is, okay, I guess, but it seems like the front door to the building is also the exit to go and find your plane. I mean, that's just a security nightmare, right there.

Also, who has the room in their collection for these gigantic oversized planes? I get that they're more to scale, compared to minifigs, but the smaller ones actually fit into my city (and the cupboard where I store most of my collection) a lot better.

I think this was the last nice Airport.
The others since then have been a little lacklustre.

@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
"Alongside the 2006 one, this is probably LEGO's best airport. I never owned it, but a childhood friend did."

I can recall that as an under 10 years child I was in absolute love with 6392... Still am.

'O tempora, o mores'

@Murdoch17 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"How is this airport still in operation? This is less than a skeleton crew, there's only two people to work the whole airport, and the pilot and flight attendant only have one passenger for a massive jet. Times were more than hard in 2010 for LEGO City..."

There is nobody in the flight control tower. This could be a problem on a level not seen since Airplane! films of the 80's. I can hear it now:
Announcer on LEGO City Airport intercom: "Umm, this may be unrelated, but does anybody know how to land a plane... or a few planes?" *panic ensues in the terminal*"

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking..."

This set really suffered from the lack of baseplates. An airport needs a runway.

@LeonHardJPG said:
" @RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
"Alongside the 2006 one, this is probably LEGO's best airport. I never owned it, but a childhood friend did."

I can recall that as an under 10 years child I was in absolute love with 6392... Still am."

6392 was nice, but for me, 10159 was the high water mark of Lego airports. After Lego duploized the city aircraft, I lost all interest in Lego aircraft/airports...too many specialized pieces. It didn't feel like Lego anymore.

@Murdoch17 and @oldfan:
Steve McCroskey: "How about some coffee Johnny?"
Air Traffic Controller Johnny Henshaw-Jacobs: "No thanks..."
or better/more ironic:
Reporter: "What kind of plane is it?"
Johnny: "Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol."
Loved those movies. Yes...even the second one was fun.:)

As to the 'set', closest I ever got was the 'Juniors' airport, with a couple of smaller planes: 6313019 s to be correct. Good idea, just needs augmenting/retooling.:)

I have a strong dislike for airplanes in this style. I don't care if they are more to scale, I find them way too big and those huge parts are atrocious. I'd choose those small 4-studs-wide airplanes of yore over these planes anyday.

@oldfan: "And that, as much as anything else, led to my drinking problem."

Wow, that one passenger has a whole plane to himself. Also, it looks like the air traffic controller is doing double-duty driving the luggage tug.

@oldfan said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"How is this airport still in operation? This is less than a skeleton crew, there's only two people to work the whole airport, and the pilot and flight attendant only have one passenger for a massive jet. Times were more than hard in 2010 for LEGO City..."

There is nobody in the flight control tower. This could be a problem on a level not seen since Airplane! films of the 80's. I can hear it now:
Announcer on LEGO City Airport intercom: "Umm, this may be unrelated, but does anybody know how to land a plane... or a few planes?" *panic ensues in the terminal*"

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking...""

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking..."

@Bricknave:
Believe it or not, that has happened in real life. And that’s on the big commercial flights, not just small commuter/charter flights. Normally they’d just cancel the flight if there’s only one passenger, but they don’t always have that option. If they need the plane or the crew at the next destination, they’d have to make the trip anyways, so might as well take what payment you can get. For the pilots, it’s fairly routine (they do have to compensate for unusual weight distribution), but the flight attendants have a much lighter workload than normal, and the lone passenger tends to get pampered as a result.

These always make me miss the four-stud-wide aircraft and airplanes. These never appealed to me because it was too much like Playmobile, not enough building, large specialty pieces. The aircraft are too big for my kids to swoosh around.