Eagle County Regional Airport – EGE

Convenient and picturesque location.
Rental cars located really far from counter at airport, be ready to walk a lot with your luggage.
No premier access lanes. Be ready for long lines and waiting.

If you are going to Colorado to ski this is the best way to get here. This small and convenient airport is only 30 minutes from Beaver Creek and 45 from Vail. Plenty of car rentals and their location is 20 feet away once you come out from the terminal. There is also shuttle service to the villages if you don’t want to rent a car which sometimes you don’t really need since there are buses running all day and night to get you to your destination whether it’s a hotel, restaurant or shopping.
The airport has a small cafeteria if you are looking to get some snacks and a small store for your last minute gifts, books and magazines. No they do not have marijuana dispensaries at the airport even though it is legal here :) Enjoy Colorado!

Vail/​eagle airport is a phenomenal place to fly into as far as convenience is concerned. The only downfall is that during the winter the weather causes many flights to be delayed and even canceled. Making it a very expensive place to be stuck. Taxis and rental cars are sometimes too expensive or sold out which leaves stranded customers paying $ 1000 of dollars more than they anticipated to reach their final destination. If this is a risk your are willing to take than flying here can make traveling to the mountains much easier. It’s small and getting on your way is much faster than DIA. Rental cars are often pulled up right outside for customers and announcements are made by flight attendants to all passengers at baggage claim when items are left on the plane which is a courtesy you will obviously not receive when you fly into a larger airport. When it’s all said and done flying here is worth it, If money is not particularly an issue.

Nice small regional airport, reminds me of long beach since you have to go down a flight of stairs from the airplane. It’s a bit old feeling and looking. Airport is surrounded by cool looking mountains.

Fly into and out of Denver instead. That way if your flight going back is cancelled due to weather, you have more options to get home quicker. The extra time you save getting to your destination by landing at this airport, is not nearly worth the risk you run if your later flight is cancelled.

Just a way easy airport for in and out quickly. Denver is a mistake to fly into if you are headed anywhere near here. This is my new favorite

Great little airport… small terminal, but adequate… amazingly situated within the mountains, challenging to safely fly into and out of…

Man great little airport to avoid the long drive from Denver to ski country. Maybe 30 minutes from Vail/​Beaver

Free parking at an airport? That’s just unheard of nowadays.
Recently flew out of Eagle to Pittsburgh (with one stop in Denver). Prices were cheaper than Aspen, Grand Junction, and other «nearby» airports and this is by far the most convenient airport I’ve been to.
We left our house in Glenwood Springs an hour before our flight. After parking and checking in, we made it through security and to our gate with time to spare.
Got a kick out of being treated like royalty at the security line. They asked how to pronounce our last name: «Mr. and Mrs. Barton I hope you have a wonderful trip.» Definitely not the par for the course for the TSA in the rest of the country.
Very laid back– the only bummer is that it’s sort of a tease to know how convenient and close this is and that flights will really only be affordable/​doable in the winter with all the ski traffic. Hard to beat.

As far as airports go, I love how laid back this place is.
Starting your trip here makes for a better overall travel experience because you don’t have to deal with crazy long lines or nasty TSA gestapo.

Services are fairly spartan, particularly early mornings and late evenings. The approach can be turbulent depending on the weather. Car rentals out of here are pricey. If you aren’t flying our on a big travel/​ski weekend, you will breeze through, if you are going to try to fly out of here after MLK ski weekend, plan to be at security a long time.
Best thing about EGE (for us locals): FREE PARKING!

Very convenient location when travelling to Beaver Creek and Vail. It’s a very small regional airport, so you can’t expect the same amenities as LAX or ATL.
Security check lines can be very long during holidays and peak season, but it still beats time trying to drive/​fly in Denver.
Be prepared to pay a little extra to fly into EGE. If you can afford it, do it!
Has a $ 4 ECO bus shuttle, rental car availability, etc.

Such a tiny airport that serves the population of Avon, Eagle and Aspen. Eagle is not affected by the snow fall that Avon is covered with. It’s only about 10 miles apart between this two towns.
Closer and ironically not used a lot because it’s expensive to fly out of or in. An example would be flying out of it to Las Vegas would roughly cost you close to $ 500. While Denver would cost you half. But if your time is gold and you poop gold then this is your choice. More bang for your poop should I say :)
Avis rental car is also located in this airport and the closest to the three city’s I mentioned above. When you drop by this airport it’s like time stood still to let you pass. Almost felt like a western movie with rolling dry grass occasionally painting the landscape.
A punctuation of an occasional announcement of a flight coming in. Then dead silence except for the wind.
Nevertheless it’s an awesome cute airport where United flies in and out!

I’m an air traffic controller at this airport, of course I give myself 5 stars, smashing it!

The AA Sky Cap is a disaster. First he dragged my Board Bag (it doesn’t have wheels), after taking the bag, he failed to remove the shoulder strap.
Thanks a lot douche!
My fault, should have occurred to me the the same hicks you will encounter in town work at the Airport…

This is the way they should built airport… small/​compact, decent seating areas, 1 minute walk to baggage claim… and baggage delivered 5 minutes after arrival.
Could be because its SO SMALL… we flew into it out of Chicago (there were maybe 40 people on a Tuesday morning flight) and back home via Denver — which was an awful trip down the mountain.
After collecting our baggage, there was a CME -(please see Colorado Mountain Express review) counter where we got hooked up with our van to the Park Hyatt -(please see review) for an excellent vacation at Beaver Creek —
. The ride was probably 30 minutes and they dropped us off right at the Park Hyatt.
One warning — on the Saturday we were leaving they had a LOT of SNOW and many United flights were cancelled and people were re booked out of Denver. From what we heard the AA flights went out as planned…
What a great experience!

Perfect. EGE is about the size of our local Westchester County Airport and has direct flights from JFK. Awesome for those traveling out to ski @ Vail. It’s only about a 30 min ride from the airport, and it’s small enough not to get bogged down going through security/​baggage claim and having to take off your shoes for bomb inspection/​remove the corpse from your ski bag for xray. In addition, I enjoyed cramming their sausage/​egg/​cheese croissant in my face and there was a bichon frise running loose in the check-​in area. 50pts!

Everything was great on the flight into the Eagle County airport. Flying direct from Dallas was convenient, and the $ 4 ECO bus that took me into Beaver Creek was an awesome value.
The building itself has a nice ‘ski lodge’ feel with nice architecture and über awesome leather chairs. It was comfortable and convenient.
If only my flight out could have been as smooth. A word of warning to travelers here. Fly out on a Saturday at your peril. The terminal was completely jammed with the most soul-​crushingly long security line I have ever seen in my years of travel. There were literally thousands of people queued up, and nearly everyone was in danger of missing flights. This airport, while charming, is NOT equipped to process the volume of flights and travelers that are booked here.
Eagle County would be a 5 star airport for me if the security lines weren’t so hilariously awful. Travel on an off day or show up 2 hours early, else the security lines of doom might get you.

Most helpful. TSA. Ever.
My friend and I were running late for a flight, and four TSA people helped speed us through the gate (one of them helped us sort out our liquids and gels from a bag we had planned to check).
OK, it was the off-​season and we were the only passengers there, but five stars for a very positive experience.

you know how some airports have additional signage at security, printed to address what they consider to be their local concerns? in big cities, there are sometimes signs warning you that joking about national security will result in your hands being cut off or other appropriate punishment. there might be a quaint drawing of a bomb with a «don’t do it» cross over it in places where they’re not sure if you get the purpose of the screening area.
in the eagle airport, which serves vail, co, the additional signs, which are very clear, and placed EVERYWHERE warn:
*NO SNOWGLOBES*
because that’s the top security priority in vail. i freakin’ LOVE that. so ridiculous.
other AWESOME things about this airport:
1) direct flights from chicago (which = no prop plane from denver grazing mountaintops as it dips and plummets at choppy, mid-​range altitudes. which also = much happier girl who didn’t have to suffer a flight-​induced panic attack on the way in).
2) free wifi.
3) leather armchairs in the «terminal» area.
4) antlers.
5) and, finally, no gum in the giftshops. it’s apparently not allowed because they recarpeted recently and don’t want the carpet to get wrecked by careless, brutish travelers spitting gum on the floor. i asked nicely and batted my eyelashes and the shopkeeper produced a contraband pack from under the counter. blackmarket gum in vail!