Talk:Birmingham International Airport (U.S.)

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[edit] Misc

Discussion about the title of this article and its recent change can be found at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (acronyms)#Changing article titles from XXXXX (US) to XXXXX (United States). Feel free to contribute. -- hike395 16:43, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Why was this page renamed? I think that Birmingham International Airport (US) would be more appropriate than Birmingham International Airport (Alabama). It's not like there is more than one Birmingham International Airport in the United States. ClarkBHM 22:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Renaming from Birmingham Municipal

Can anyone provide the details on the renaming of the airport from the Birmingham Municipal Airport to the Birmingham International Airport? I vaguely remember that they were planning on building a new airport, but when the proposed site was revealed to be in Gadsden, the city and state dropped the idea and simply renamed the existing airport. Clarkbhm 05:54, 20 February 2006 (UTC)\

From the BHM official webpage at http://www.bhamintlairport.com/aboutbhm-history.html: "Direct service was added to destinations in Mexico and Canada and on October 20, 1993 the name was officially changed to Birmingham International Airport." Hope this answers your question about the name change. Sorry, I don't know anything about the proposed new airport idea. I had heard similar ideas long ago for a new airport between BHM and ATL or BHM and MGM as a reliever airport for ATL. Civilengtiger (talk) 13:39, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rumway 6/24 Expansion

Does anyone know if runway 6/24 has been expanded to 12,000 feet? Bucs2004 22:13, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

To my knowledge, nothing has been done beyond clearing the land. The most recent approach plate for the airport still lists the runway as 10,000. ([1]) The same is true for the most up-to-date entry in the Airport/Facility Directory [2]. - auburnpilot talk 22:21, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Granted I haven't landed at BHM in two months, but I've been told construction is actually occurring on the taxiways for the runway extension and that the runways are also in mid construction. Can't find any links to support it though. BHM released a construction notice which provides a color-coded map on page two. [3] - auburnpilot talk 22:29, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contested move request

The following request to move a page has been added to Wikipedia:Requested moves as an uncontroversial move, but this has been contested by one or more people. Any discussion on the issue should continue here. If a full request is not lodged within five days of this request being contested, the request will be removed from WP:RM. —Stemonitis 13:49, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Isn't the article at Birmingham International Airport (US) with a redirect from Birmingham International Airport (United States)? There is only one article. Are you asking to expand the abbreviation of the country nameVegaswikian 08:34, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Elsewhere, "(U.S.)" is used as a disambiguating suffix. I would like to see a wider consensus (full WP:RM) before making the move. --Stemonitis 13:49, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Inconsistency You're right about the inconsistency: X (U.S. band), for instance. I contend that all {US) and (U.S.) and (USA), etc. disambiguations should be changed to {United States) disambiguations per the name of the main article - it is located at United States, rather than U.S., USA, etc. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 23:54, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Should the same be done for all the (UK) disambiguations? Sounds like a major style guideline discussion, not just a requested move. --Dystopos 00:02, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
I agree with Dystopos that this should be more of a manual of style discussion than one limited to this article. As it is, the standard practice appears to be using "US" rather than "United States". So long as that's the case, I'd be opposed to moving this article to a title that goes against that format. - auburnpilot talk 00:36, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History section copyvio

Due to the distinctly un-wikipedia style prose in the history section, I checked around for copyvios, specifically at the BHM website and found the history section was started as a copy/paste from the BHM history page added in this edit by User:Leonard23 (now apparently inactive). I am removing the remaining copyvio text and hope some wikipedian(s) can do the research to source and write a good history. Regards, AUTiger » talk 03:08, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 Service

User 75.143.110.44 added a note on 04:09, 11 February 2008 that Delta Air Lines uses Boeing 757 aircraft during the busier Spring and Summer travel periods. I agree that at a minimum in Summer 2007 that was true as I remember seeing this aircraft with a mid-day departure, however I wondered if that upgauging is expected on an ongoing basis. A check of Delta's schedule for 6 weekdays in June, July, August 2008 found only MD88, CRJ700, and CRJ900 scheduled service between BHM and ATL. Unless someone has a reliable source for ongoing 757 service, I propose (gently) reverting this change. Thoughts? Civilengtiger (talk) 20:23, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

  • I went ahead and undid the reference to Delta use of Boeing 757 aircraft at BHM. The basis is a review of the Delta Air Lines timetable effective February 1, 2008 and use of the tools on http://www.delta.com/schedules/travel/reservations/flight_sched/ which allow viewing of flight schedules through the summer months. I did not find any indication of a return of the 757 to BHM and given Delta's decision to use the 757 primarily on international routes, do not see the 757 returning soon. While Delta used the 757 at BHM in the past, I can't find support for a forward looking statement regarding Delta 757s at BHM. I do encourage user 75.143.110.44 to keep contributing to the BHM page and sign up for an account, we always need more knowledgable editors. Civilengtiger (talk) 17:31, 13 February 2008 (UTC)