Miami International Airport

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The Miami International Airport ( IATA: MIA, ICAO: KMIA ) is the international airport of Miami in Florida, USA. Airport operator is the authority Miami -Dade County Aviation Department. It is an important aviation hub for American Airlines, FedEx Express, LAN Cargo and UPS Airlines.

The airport recorded a 2012 passenger traffic of 39.5 million passengers. He is also the U.S. after John F. Kennedy Airport in New York and Los Angeles International Airport is the third most important international airport. This is due to the many links to the Caribbean and South America. In the field of international freight handling airport in 2008 before any other U.S. airports. Miami International Airport has four start and runways, three of which run in parallel east-west direction and the other in a northwest-southeast direction.

History

The airport was opened in 1928 as Pan American Field and served as the basis for Pan American Airways Corporation, whose headquarters was located on the north side of today's airport. Once Pan had on the New York, Rio, and Buenos Aires Line bought, they moved most of their operations to the Seaplane at Dinner Key, so that Pan was little used at the field until Eastern Air Lines flight operations there in 1934 recorded, in 1937 National Airlines followed.

Pan Am and Eastern, the primary user of the Miami airport remained until 1991, when both airlines operation had to stop due to bankruptcy proceedings. Your hubs in MIA were taken over by United Airlines and American Airlines.

For many years the airport was an often acitivities transition airport for passengers traveling between Europe and Latin America. The stricter visa requirements for foreigners in transit, imposed after the September 11, 2001, can fall sharply this function of the Miami airport.

On 31 July 2012, the airport opened a new arrivals area, in order to shorten the arrival times.

Terminals & Airlines

Miami International Airport has three terminals with six departure halls. The Central Terminal consists of gates E, F and G. At the South Terminal for the boarding gates H and J. The North Terminal is home to Gate D. All terminals manufacture both international and domestic flights from, but the North Terminal exclusively by the national airlines American Airlines and American Eagle is used. Concourse J is the newest departure hall and was opened in August 2007. There mainly aircraft Alliances SkyTeam and Star Alliance are handled. It also provides capacity for release of Airbus A380.