About
Phoenix Airport hotels are conveniently located between downtown Phoenix hotels and Arizona State University hotels. As a result, hotels near Phoenix Airport tend to serve the entire area and are an excellent base of operations for visiting tourists and business people.
Phoenix itself is the fifth largest city in the United States, and is the twelfth largest metropolitan area in the US, between Detroit and San Francisco.
Phoenix Airport’s official name is Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. It is the ninth busiest airport in the United States, with over 19 million boardings each year. It is the main hub for Great Lakes Airlines and US Airways, which is headquartered only a few miles away in Tempe.
It is also a focus city for Southwest Airlines. Phoenix Airport is fortunate that Phoenix has very consistent wind patterns, which allows Phoenix Airport to be one of the largest airports in the world with all parallel runways, all facing east-west.
For a large and busy airport, Phoenix Airport also has a fantastically low incidents of airline accidents, making Phoenix a popular destination for business, tourists, airlines, and commerce. Native Americans have inhabited the area where Phoenix Airport hotels now sit for over 1000 years.
Ancient canals used by the natives are still in use today and allow Phoenix to be a major producer of fruits, vegetables, and other crops in the United States. The lack of rain and constant supply of water through dams and irrigation allowed the area to be the largest producer of cotton in the nation.
Today, Phoenix Airport hotels fill with tourists in the wintertime who enjoy ultra-low humidity, sunny skies, and warm temperatures, while at the same time filling year round with business people who are attracted to the beautiful weather and ideal location for technology and electronics design and manufacturing.