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DC-3 airliner cabin Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST) showing the second row of windows for the upper bunk beds, above the airline titles "DC" stands for "Douglas Commercial". The DC-3 was the culmination of a development effort that began after an inquiry from Transcontinental and Western Airlines (TWA) to Donald Douglas.
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (IATA: BWI, ICAO: KBWI, FAA LID: BWI) – also known as Thurgood Marshall Airport, Baltimore/Washington International Airport, and simply as BWI Airport – is an international airport in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, [2] located 9 mi (14 km) south of downtown Baltimore and 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Washington, D.C. [6] [7]
The airport opened in 1950–52 with a 4,200-foot, east-west runway; the first airline flights were Piedmont DC-3s in 1952. (The last Piedmont YS-11 left in 1981.) The runway was extended to 5,000 ft in the 1950s, and the 6,750 ft runway 1/19 was constructed between 1975 and 1979.
Founded as Express Airlines I. Operates as Delta Connection. Envoy Air: MQ ENY ENVOY Dallas/Fort Worth Chicago–O'Hare Miami. Phoenix–Sky Harbor. 1984 Founded as American Eagle Airlines. Operates as American Eagle. GoJet Airlines: G7 GJS LINDBERGH Chicago–O'Hare Denver: 2004 Commenced operations in 2005. Operates as United Express. Horizon ...
In the deadliest U.S. air disaster in more than 20 years, a U.S. Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet collided on Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ...
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport - 84.44% of flights on time. Salt Lake City International Airport – 83.99% of flights on time. Ronald Reagan National Airport - 83.20% of flights on time
Mesa's independent flights to Albuquerque operated every hour. The Denver flights were discontinued in 1998 when Mesa lost its United Express affiliation to Great Lakes Airlines. Independent flights operated by Mesa Air to Albuquerque ran through 2007 and the America West Express flights to Phoenix ended in mid-2008.
It is owned by the Blair County Airport Authority. [1] The airport has flights to one destination, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 11,051 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, [2] 6,439 in 2009 and 4,378 in 2010. [3]