Comments on: New Airport gets New Call Letters, Bye Bye PFN

By: Dan Wygant

Dan Wygant — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:15:02 +0000

They (ECP) are green (LEED) and they are the first since 9/11
To read about how they have wrangled with environmentalists to provide 41000 acre of protected land at
iflybeaches.com/atbeaches/eco

This is an awesome thing they did.
Also last I heard because Panama City Beach is on what locals call “the tongue of the Gulf”, a deepwater tongue, and other beaches (Laguna Beach specifically) are indented sort of into the coast, that they are doubley protected both from Hurricane damage, and currently from the flotsam of the giant oil spill.

So where coastal areas east (Mexico Beach) and west (Destin) of PCB are getting oily beaches, we will not here in Lauguna Beach especially. Not just that, but we’ve got a real beach in Laguna Beach which acts as a wind wall and keeps the places on the other side of front-beach-98 from getting hit too hard. Even when PCB got hit in the 70′s, Laguna Beach was almost unscathed. I remeber it! Crap spread everywhere (almost 40 years ago) and our place just had lots of sea stuff washed up – very very interesting all the stuff thrown all the way up to the natural dune wall.

I’m very respectful of the conservation efforts for turtles and the enourmous amount of life in the areas around West Bay. Keep on supporting your wild life and respect nature. We have children and soon more decendents who will have to live here, and lets make it possible to see the existing beauty of local nature!

Dan Wygant, one of the conservationists who love wild-Florida

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:13:52 +0000

PCB is taken… it is the code for PONDOK CABE, INDONESIA

By: jobeibi

jobeibi — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:36:20 +0000

John & Dude,

You probably already figured this out, but I checked anyway.

If you type in Panama City, FL on Expedia, they will ask you to choose PFN or ECP. If you select PFN for a flight date after the changeover, you will be given quotes for flights to ECP instead.

By: Dude

Dude — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:42:45 +0000

^^^^^^ That’s what I would like to know. I’ve tried priceline, expedia and all of the travel websites but can’t seem to find the new airport on these sites to book a flight.

By: john A.

john A. — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:16:01 +0000

I Will be travelling to PCB in Late may and want to fly into the new airport. When I looked on line to book tickets, the new airport designation ECP could not be found. Does anyone know how I can book a flight into the new airport?

By: Brian W.

Brian W. — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:38:58 +0000

The existing airport has been sold to a developer out of Pittsburg, PA. It will be residential and some commercial apparently.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:48:58 +0000

“What do you mean by “GA”?”

General Aviation

By: jobeibi

jobeibi — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:37:37 +0000

Paul Cannefax
“Is ECP owned and operated by Bay County? Or Panama City?”
It is owned by the Bay County Airport Authority, which is a separate entity from either the city or the county. http://www.pcairport.com/airportinfo_board.htm

“What is going to happen to the Panama City Airport? I heard that it will be for GA. Any idea????”
The property has been sold to a developer which plans to build a neighborhood there. What do you mean by “GA”?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:58:55 +0000

Why not NFB (Northwest Florida Beaches)?

There must be money or politics somewhere.

PCB would have been the good alternate choice — but again — there must be a reason!

By: Curtis Faulk

Curtis Faulk — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:40:34 +0000

Does anyone know when Southwest will be accepting reservations into the airport?