I have always loved this airport just for its poetic name. We discovered the first really good sit-down airport restaurant here in the 80s. We flew out of Oakland to Phoenix the afternoon of the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 and I will always remember flying back a week or so later and seeing piles of donated goods the people of Phoenix had dropped off to be transported to the Bay Area free by Southwest for earthquake victims. When daughter and granddaughter were living in Phoenix Alan and I flew here every other month to see them (except for the summer months...did that once and never again!) so this is a very familiar airport. It's huge, 4 terminals in contrast to Tucson's one, but it's easy to get around and the security staff have always been friendly. It's clean and attractively decorated. Now they have free wifi, an excellent innovation. The overhead announcements are in a mellow male voice, no knife-voiced woman as in Oakland.
I almost forgot to mention one of my favorite things, the taxiway that crosses over the freeway. I didn't notice whether we did it today; I was too tired. That's always been a little highlight for me.