Indianapolis International Airport

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Indianapolis International Airport is the airport of Indianapolis.

The airport belongs to the city of Indianapolis and was operated 1994-2007 by the British Airports Authority. The Indianapolis International Airport is the largest airport in Indiana and is a major hub for the aircraft of the company FedEx.

The airport was opened in 1931. 1944-1975 he was called Weir Cook Municipal Airport, until it gained its present name by the admission of international air traffic. The City Council of Indianapolis has taken a decision to use the Weir Cook name again from the autumn of 2008, with the opening of a new terminal building. The Board of Directors of the airport, however, has not taken a decision to this effect.

The current terminal building was opened in 1957 as Trans World Airlines has offered the first scheduled flights to Indianapolis. It was expanded in 1968, among other things, in 1972 and 1987. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the airport served as a secondary hub for U.S. Airways, which carried to and from the airport 49% of all passengers. 1995-2000 U.S. Airways built its connections to Indianapolis but much from. At about this time built ATA Airlines its operation in Indianapolis heavily on. As this airline trod the road to bankruptcy 2004-2007, their Indianapolis Flights were also severely limited first, and completely finished in 2006. Meanwhile, Northwest Airlines has this capacity more or less taken over, along with Southwest Airlines.

2005 the airport had 8,524,442 passengers and 222,275 aircraft movements, cargo was 1,136,545 t moved.