EL PASO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

'El Paso International Airport' is a public airport located four miles (6 km) northeast of the central business district (CBD) of the City of El Paso, in El Paso County, Texas, USA.

Contents

History

Facilities

Airlines and destinations

Concourse A

Concourse B

New Airlines and Destinations

References

External links

History

The city of El Paso had originally constructed the 'El Paso Municipal Airport' at a location close to the East Side of the Franklin Mountains in 1928. The airport was abandoned by 1965, and in more recent times has been home to the Jobe Concrete Products "Planeport" cement factory.
The El Paso International Airport was originally constructed as 'Standard Airport', constructed by Standard Airlines in 1929 for transcontinental air mail service. Standard Airlines became a division of American Airlines in the 1930's. In 1936, American Airlines "swapped" airports with the city of El Paso, and the El Paso International Airport was born.
In 1934, Varney Speed Lines—now known as the popular airline Continental Airlines—operated its service in and out of the old El Paso Municipal Airport (now closed). In 1937, the airline moved to Denver, Colorado when Robert Six took over the airline.
Historically, Continental Airlines had a significant presence at the airport. It provided "Golden Jet" service to such cities as Phoenix, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Midland-Odessa, Dallas Love Field, Austin, San Antonio and Houston. Before deregulation in the USA, El Paso was a focus city for Continental Airlines, however El Paso was soon demoted to a standard station in a hub-and-spoke system under Frank Lorenzo's leadership of the airline.

Facilities

El Paso International Airport covers 6,800 acres and has three runways:

★ Runway 4/22: 12,020 x 150 ft. (3,664 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt

★ Runway 8R/26L: 9,025 x 150 ft. (2,751 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt

★ Runway 8L/26R: 5,493 x 75 ft. (1,674 x 23 m), Surface: Asphalt

Airlines and destinations

El Paso International Airport has a total of 15 gates on 2 concourses.

Concourse A

Concourse A has 4 Gates: A1 - A4

★ American Airlines Gates A1, A2 (Chicago-O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth)

Concourse B

Concourse B has 11 Gates: B1 - B11

★ Continental Airlines Gate B9 (Houston-Intercontinental)

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★ Continental Express operated by Chautauqua Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental)

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★ Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental)

★ Delta Air Lines Gates B1, B2 (Atlanta)

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★ Delta Connection operated by SkyWest (Salt Lake City)

★ ExpressJet Airlines Gate B8 (Ontario, Tucson [begins September 9])

★ Frontier Airlines Gate B10

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★ Frontier Airlines operated by Republic Airlines (Denver)

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★ Frontier JetExpress operated by Horizon Air (Denver) [ends November 30]

★ Southwest Airlines Gates B3 - B6 (Albuquerque, Austin, Dallas-Love, Houston-Hobby, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa [ends November 4], Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego)

★ United Airlines Gate B11

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★ United Express operated by SkyWest (Denver)

★ US Airways Gate B7

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★ US Airways operated by America West Airlines (Las Vegas, Phoenix)

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★ US Airways Express operated by Mesa Airlines (Phoenix)

New Airlines and Destinations

★ New Mexico Airlines (Alamogordo [Proposed], Carlsbad [begins Fall 2007], Deming [Proposed], Ruidoso [Proposed]

References

★ El Paso International Airport (official site)

★ Abandoned & Little Known Airfields: Texas - El Paso area

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External links

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