Pittsburgh International Airport

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The Pittsburgh International Airport is the airport of the city of Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It serves both as a civilian airport, as well as a base of Air Force Reserve Command and the Air National Guard.

Location and Transport

The Pittsburgh Airport is located in Findlay Township, a township in Allegheny County, 30 kilometers west of downtown Pittsburgh on Interstate 376 and Pennsylvania Route 576 The airport is about 3 bus lines with Pittsburgh and other communities joined in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area.

History

In 1940, acquired the Works Progress Administration (WPA ), a farm in Allegheny County and began to build a military airfield there. In 1944, proposed the county administration intends to establish a civilian passenger terminal to the existing Allegheny County Airport to relieve. 1946, work began on a terminal building made ​​of concrete, steel and glass, designed by Joseph W. Hoover, and on 31 May 1952, the Greater Pittsburgh Airport opened. In the first year, 1.4 million passengers were handled.

In 1959, the terminal building was first expanded in the same year opened Trans World Airlines (TWA) with a Boeing 707, the first scheduled conjunction with a jet airplane from Pittsburgh, and later opened TWA at the Pittsburgh airport a hub that was operated until 1985. From 1970 to 1972, the airport has been extended to be built to serve international flights can. After completion of the work he was given its present name Pittsburgh International Airport. 1985 British Airways offered to the first trans-Atlantic flight from Pittsburgh, the connection to London was offered with some changes until 1999.

Despite further expansion of the terminal building no longer met the requirements, so that from 1987 to 1992 a new building was erected. The construction was supported by USAir as then principal users of the airport. The old terminal was demolished after a temporary use as an office building in 1999.

In the 1990s, the development stagnated at Pittsburgh airport until finally 2004, now called U.S. Airways USAir announced to reduce flight operations in Pittsburgh significant. This was preceded by the requirement to reduce landing fees. Instead formerly 542 flights, including international destinations, 2005, only about 170 flights and 2008 68 flights a day were offered to predominantly national objectives. In response, the Airport Authority since tried increasingly to attract low cost airlines such as Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways. In October 2007, a U.S. Airways flight operations center set up at the Pittsburgh Airport, in March 2009 a logistics center will also be built. In addition, a trans-Atlantic flight from Pittsburgh to Paris from Delta Airlines is offered ( on a codeshare with Air France ) in June 2009. Will be flown daily with a Boeing 757-200.

Operation

The Pittsburgh Airport is connected to the major American hubs. There are also direct links to U.S. domestic destinations and some international connections. Since the withdrawal of U.S. Airways no airline operates more a hub at Pittsburgh Airport, parts of the terminal building are unused.

At the Pittsburgh airport, a free trade zone is set, the Lufthansa subsidiary LSG Sky Chefs operates in the Air Cargo area has a production plant of the catering for North America is handled.

On the military part of the airport, the Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station of the 911th Airlift Wing as part of the Airport Reserve Command and the 171st Air Refueling Wing is stationed as part of the Air National Guard of Pennsylvania.