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After Laredo Air Force Base closed in the mid-1970s, the federal government handed over the old air force base and property to the City of Laredo for a new municipal airport. From the mid-1970s until the mid-1990s, the airport utilized a small terminal for passenger airline service and several old hangars for air cargo and private aircraft.
Caliber was acquired by FedEx in 1998 [21] [22] and Viking continued under FedEx as a West Coast LTL carrier. In 2001, FedEx acquired American Freightways and the following year renamed it FedEx Freight East and renamed Viking FedEx Freight West. After acquiring Watkins Motor Lines in 2006, FedEx integrated all of its LTL services into a single ...
Laredo is also part of the cross-border Laredo-Nuevo Laredo metropolitan area with an estimated population of 636,516. [10] Laredo's Hispanic proportion of 95.15% is one of the highest proportion of Hispanic Americans of any city in the United States outside of Puerto Rico. [11] Texas A&M International University and Laredo College are in Laredo.
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Laredo's allegiance remained with Mexico until 1845, when the United States annexed Texas and the Mexican–American War subsequently began. In 1848, under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the two governments established the Rio Grande as the boundary between the United States and Mexico, making Laredo part of the United States. The following ...
Continental Express Flight 2574 (Jetlink 2574) was a scheduled domestic passenger airline flight operated by Britt Airways [2] from Laredo International Airport in Laredo, Texas to Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) (now called George Bush Intercontinental Airport) in Houston, Texas.
The U.S. consulate in Nuevo Laredo issued a security alert saying that it had "received reports of multiple gunfights throughout the city." U.S. government personnel were advised to shelter in ...
Laredo International Airport (IATA: LRD, ICAO: KLRD, FAA LID: LRD) is three miles northeast of downtown Laredo, in Webb County, Texas, United States. [ 2 ] The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a non-hub primary commercial service airport.