Albany International Airport

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Albany International Airport

IATA: ALB – ICAO: KALB
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Albany County Airport Authority
Location		285
Elevation AMSL		86.9 ft / m
Coordinates		42°44′54″N 73°48′06″W / 42.74833, -73.80167
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
1/19	8,500	2,591	Asphalt
10/28	7,200	2,195	Asphalt

Albany International Airport (IATA: ALB, ICAO: KALB) is an airport of entry [1] serving Albany, New York. It is located in Latham, New York, 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.

ALB has pay-as-you-go Wi-Fi access throughout the entire airport provided by WiFiFee.

1 Recent history
2 CommutAir Hub
3 The Anticipated Concourse D
4 Airlines and destinations
5 Cargo carriers
6 Airline share
7 References
8 External links

[edit] 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 in the period after the 9-11 attacks.
Construction has recently been completed on the 1,300-foot (400 m) runway extension for runway 1/19. The runway now measures 8,500 feet (2,600 m). [2]
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) [3], and Frontier Airlines [4] to expand service to the airport.
In the past ALB had been serviced by Delta Express flying to Orlando and Tampa, MetroJet flying to Orlando and Baltimore. In those airlines' final years of operation, when they flew alongside Southwest Airlines, Albany had up to eight flights to Orlando.
ALB will become a Focus City for Cape Air flying to Watertown, Ogdensburg, and Massena.

Albany International Airport on a clear August day

[edit] CommutAir Hub

In early 2001, CommutAir started to invest in an Albany hub. The hub was to connect smaller cities with bigger cities with Continental Express and mainline. At its peak CommutAir served Allentown, Bangor, Binghamton, Boston, Buffalo, Burlington, Elmira, Portland, Harrisburg, Nantucket, Scranton, La Guardia, Islip, Hartford, White Plains, Manchester, Providence, Syracuse, Rochester, Lake Placid, Montreal, Ottawa, and Plattsburgh. The hub was closed down in late 2005 to shift operations to Cleveland. About half of the markets did do very well.

[edit] The Anticipated Concourse D

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There have been discussions between the Town of Colonie and The Albany Airport Board regarding the construction of a new concourse. The concourse will be built to satisfy the needs of growing US Airways and Southwest.[5] The new concourse will also be useful to attract new airlines to ALB. The concourse will have about 10 gates. However, there is insufficient space for the new facility at this time.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Concourse A

American Airlines Gate A3
- American Eagle (Chicago-O'Hare)
Northwest Airlines Gate A4 (Detroit)
- Northwest Airlink operated by Mesaba Airlines (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
United Airlines Gates A5-A6 (Chicago-O'Hare)
- United Express operated by GoJet Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare)
- United Express operated by Trans States Airlines (Washington-Dulles)

The lower level has a Saranac Street Pub-Concourse-A. The Upper Level has an Arrezzio’s-Concourse-A.

[edit] Concourse B

Delta Air Lines Gates B4, B5, B7
- Delta Connection operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines (Atlanta)
- Delta Connection operated by Comair (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky)
- Delta Connection operated by Freedom Airlines (New York-JFK)
US Airways Gates B1, B2, B8-B11 (Charlotte, Philadelphia, Washington-Reagan)
- US Airways Express operated by Air Wisconsin (Philadelphia, Washington-Reagan)
- US Airways Express operated by Colgan Air (Boston, Buffalo, New York-LaGuardia)
- US Airways Express operated by Mesa Airlines (Charlotte)
- US Airways Express operated by Piedmont Airlines (Philadelphia)
- US Airways Express operated by Republic Airlines (Philadelphia, Washington-Reagan)

There is a Capital Deli & Pub in Concourse B.

[edit] Concourse C

Air Canada Gate C1A
- Air Canada operated by Air Georgian (Toronto-Pearson)
Continental Airlines Gate C1
- Continental Connection operated by Colgan Air (Newark)
- Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Cleveland, Newark)
Southwest Airlines Gates C2, C3 (Baltimore/Washington, Chicago-Midway, Las Vegas, Orlando, Tampa)

[edit] Cargo carriers

[edit] Airline share

Airline	Percent of Total Enplanements in 2007
Southwest	35.4
US Airways	21.8
United	13.1
Delta	10.8
Northwest	7.8
Continental	7.5
American Eagle	3.0
Air Canada	0.6
Independence Air (ceased operations January 2006)	0.0