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Orlando International Airport Intermodal Terminal under construction (2017) The facility mostly reuses plans from the proposed Florida High Speed Rail system. In that plan, the Orlando International Airport station was to be the northern terminus of the initial Tampa-to-Orlando route along Interstate 4.
McCoy AFB is now the location of the Orlando International Airport. Farther north in Sanford, the Orlando Sanford International Airport was originally Naval Air Station Sanford. Metro Orlando's economy has greatly diversified from tourism, and the area is now considered a primary city for the modeling, simulation and training (MS&T) industry. [39]
The station is located at the intersection of West 20th Street and Okeechobee Road , one block south of the Hialeah Expressway (SR 934). It opened to passenger service on May 19, 1985, [ 1 ] and was previously the northwestern terminus of the Metrorail system until Palmetto station opened in 2003.
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The Sunshine Corridor is a new east-west rail corridor under development that will run from Orlando International Airport to southwestern Orange County at a point near Walt Disney World. The Sunshine Corridor is being developed as a joint venture between SunRail, inter-city rail operator Brightline , and local businesses.
Bombardier CX-100 arriving at Airside 2 in 2008. Construction of the current terminal at Orlando International Airport began in 1978 and it opened in 1981. When the terminal opened, it only consisted of the western half of the landside terminal building and the two airsides on the west side of the terminal which contain Gates 1-59 (present-day Airsides 1 and 3).
Brightline terminates at this station after the 170-mile (270 km) Orlando Extension track was built. Trains run up to 125 mph (200 km/h) with a travel time of approximately 3.5 hours from Orlando's airport to Miami. [86] [87] The first test run of the Brightline train into Orlando station happened on May 17, 2022. [88]
Orlando International Airport (IATA: MCO, ICAO: KMCO, FAA LID: MCO) [6] is the primary international airport located 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Downtown Orlando, Florida. In 2021, it had 19,618,838 enplanements , making it the busiest airport in the state and seventh busiest airport in the United States .