During northflow, aircraft approaching the airport from the west, northwest, or north usually come here. If you have the opportunity to go on a good weather day that isn’t forecasted this way take it. The same can happen in the winter when the area’s geography traps pollution.Ī typical day will have the airport running southflow in the morning and switching to northflow somewhere in between 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM. Wildfire season (specifically late July to late September) brings poor visibility and dangerous air quality. Snow is typically on the mountains between late November and mid April. It gets hot in the summer and cold in the winter so dress accordingly. Plenty of sun year round, but more in the summer than in the winter. There may be a few restaurants near the east end of Spot #3, but that walk is at least a quarter of a mile. or the park and wait lot if you have a car. Spots 5 and 7 are also accessible from this stop, but that’s a 10 mile one-way walk.

From Trax, get off at 1940 W North Temple and walk along the bike trail to access spots 1, 3, 4, 8, and 9, but this can add up to several miles of walking. It’s best to have a car, but you can reach almost all the spots with UTA’s Trax depending on how far you’re willing to walk. If you do use one make sure to stay well clear of the fence line. Written by local spotter Michael Rodeback (all spots updated February 2022) RatingĪlaska, American, Frontier, JetBlue, Southwest, United Not only will you get in trouble with military security, you won’t get any good pictures either. Don’t go poking around the entrance to the base on the east side trying to shoot through the fence. There is also an Air National Guard Base here but these movements are unpredictable. Delta A350s can occasionally be seen on flights to Atlanta or Detroit, and rumor has it that the Delta A330NEOs are coming in the spring of 2022.

Aeromexico has also returned to the airport with once daily service. KLM is set to return with thrice weekly seasonal service in April of 2022, and Eurowings Discover still plans thrice weekly seasonal service beginning in late may of 2022. Salt Lake City is one of Delta’s largest hubs and the operations base for Skywest Airlines (a regional carrier for American, Delta, United, and Alaska) so you’ll see a lot of 70 seat aircraft on your trip. The airport served nearly 27 million passengers in 2018 and processed roughly 400 million pounds of cargo. The Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC/KSLC) is six miles west of Downtown Salt Lake.

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