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Trains load and off-load passengers in the white tented area across from the cruise ship terminal and the marina. The Whittier HAP Depot is an Alaska Railroad passenger stop in Whittier, Alaska. The passenger stop is located along a siding in Whittier, immediately west of the railroad bridge crossing Whittier Creek at Alaska Railroad milepost 1.2.
A passenger terminal is a structure in a port which services passengers boarding and leaving water vessels such as ferries, cruise ships and ocean liners.Depending on the types of vessels serviced by the terminal, it may be named (for example) ferry terminal, cruise terminal, marine terminal or maritime passenger terminal.
Cruise ports line the coast of Alaska, from Ketchikan in the south, dubbed "the salmon capital of the world," to more northern cities like Juneau, where glaciers and whale-watching abound.
Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport has one asphalt paved runway (8/26) measuring 7,100 ft × 150 ft (2,164 m × 46 m). [1]For the 12-month period ending January 11, 2011, the airport had 12,010 aircraft operations, an average of 33 per day: 50% air taxi, 37% general aviation, 12% scheduled commercial and fewer than 1% military.
The airport opened in 1935 in honor of Clinton Woolsey, an engineer for the U.S. Army Air Service [2] who died near Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1927 during the first Pan-American Goodwill Flight across Central and South America. Land for the airport was donated by Woolsey's father, and additional land was added by the township.
In 2008, when the Precious family matriarch Silvia Precious retired, the boat was being optioned by an out of town buyer to move to a Northern Michigan port. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] To keep the boat in Muskegon, the Sand Products Corporation purchased the Port City Princess and extensively upgraded her, this included a number of aesthetic and structural ...
Civilian control of the airport resumed in the mid-1940s. [10] The current terminal on the north side of the air field opened on October 31, 2012. The 75,000 sq ft (7,000 m 2) terminal, which replaced an older terminal on the west side of the air field, was designed by RS&H and cost $55 million. [11]
According to the Airport Authority, a January 2010 leakage study found that 550,000 of the 873,000 airline tickets sold from mid-Michigan in 2009 were to travelers using other Michigan airports: 45% of travelers flew (originated) from Detroit Metro Airport, 37% from Lansing, 8% from Grand Rapids, and 7.6% from Flint.