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FAA diagram of Albany International Airport (ALB)

Albany International Airport (IATA: ALB, ICAO: KALB) is an airport of entry [1] serving Albany, New York. It is located in the Town of Colonie about 6 miles (10 km) north of Albany.

Albany International Airport can accept most aircraft. Although the airport is significant and well-equipped, it is essentially a domestic airport, with its only scheduled international flights to Canada.

CommutAir, flying as Continental Connection, had dozens of daily non-stop flights to 20 destinations from a "micro-hub" created at Albany International Airport [2]. At its peak, it operated five banks of flights out of three gates (A1, A1a, A2), completely occupying the airside's lower-level. The hub was downsized and eventually closed down in 2005, and today only serves Buffalo.

Recent history

  • Albany International Airport is unique because it is one of the only 4 airports in the world using dual jetbridges (one bridge for the back, one for the front). However, only Southwest Airlines uses them.
  • US Airways used to have major operations at Albany. Including its own hangar, US Airways Club, MetroJet services to Orlando and Baltimore, and dozens of mainline flights a day. These services were cut down when US Airways went bankrupt, after the time period after the 9-11 attacks.
  • Construction has recently been completed on the 1,300 foot runway extension for runway 1/19. The runway now measures 8,500 feet. [3]
  • With the January 2006 shutdown of Independence Air, the airport is in further discussions with JetBlue Airways (which serves all other major upstate airports), AirTran (which served Albany for a brief period in the late 1990s) [4], and Frontier Airlines [5] to expand service to the airport.
  • On October 29, 2006, Southwest Airlines began a daily roundtrip flight to Tampa International Airport. [6] For a time, a weekly roundtrip to Tampa was run from the airport on a test basis several years ago.
  • On September 6, 2006, GoJet Airlines for United Express added service to Washington Dulles International Airport, complementing flights on Trans States Airlines.
  • On April 8, 2007, Delta Connection began service to Boston and Watertown.
  • US Airways has resumed its seasonal service to Orlando on Saturdays.

Airlines and destinations

Concourse A

Concourse B

Concourse C

Cargo carriers

Airline share

Airline Percent of Total Enplanements in 2006
Southwest 33.6
US Airways 22.9
Delta 13
United 11
Northwest 7.8
Continental 7.7
American 3.3
Air Canada 0.6
Independence Air (ceased operations January 2006) 0.1

Source: [7]

References

External links

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