Albany International Airport

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The Albany International Airport is an international airport in Albany, the capital of the U.S. state of New York.

History

After the previous Quentin Roosevelt Field had reached its capacity limits announced Mayor John Boyd Thacher II, to build a new, modern airport. The future location was previously used as farmland of a Shaker community that there buried remains of Ann Lee were moved from there to a cemetery of the parish in the course of construction. Since Charles Lindbergh surveyed the terrain and advocated, has been temporarily given to giving the name of Lindbergh Field to the new airport.

Construction of the airport began in 1928 and on June 1st of the same year, the airport was opened with an airmail flight to Buffalo. First three start and runways were having a length between 2,200 ft ( 671 m) and 2,500 ft ( 762 m) built, two of them with a coating of macadam, was executed as a cinder track. These two hangars and an office building were built. The first passenger flight reached Albany on October 1 as part of the route Montreal- Newark. In 1929, 180 passengers flew with Canadian Colonial Airways from Albany to New York and 125 passengers in the opposite direction, each at a fare of $ 25 (equivalent to $ 353 in today's money ).

In 1932 there were a total of 16 daily scheduled fly for air mail and passengers, in addition to Canadian Colonial Eastern Air Lines and American Airways Albany had added to its route network.

The Civil Aeronautics Administration decided in 1939 that the airport is " useless " and that ordered the closure. The city then put a project under the WPA program in order to modernize the airport, including a new start and a long train of 3,500 ft ( 1,067 m) was built in length. In December 1940, the CAA granted permission for flights in daylight and in January 1942, the release for night flights.

After the end of World War II, the airport was expanded again. In 1956, the CAA threatened again to close the airport because of the wooden tower was a fire hazard and the start and runways is not suitable for jet aircraft. As a result, a new control tower was built in 1957 and planned to extend the start and runways. The city of Albany, since the establishment of the airport owner, introduced in 1960 found no longer to be able to financially support the airport and sold it for $ 4.4 million (equivalent to $ 36 million in today's money ) to the Albany County.

After American Airlines and Mohawk Airlines, since the withdrawal of Eastern Airlines and Trans World Airlines have added the only provider of scheduled flights that operate jets to Albany in 1966, in the early 1960s was the north-south airstrip on 6,000 ft ( 1,829 m) extended. In 1974 the railway was extended in east-west direction to the same size.

In 1993, the Albany County Airport Authority was created which is responsible for the operation of the airport since then. At the same time, the planning began for a new reception building, which was inaugurated in 1996.

Operation

At the Albany International Airport consist scheduled flights to destinations within the United States and Canada. Largest provider is the Southwest Airlines. The most common target is the Baltimore airport.