Albany International Airport

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Albany International Airport
IATA: ALB - ICAO: KALB
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Albany County Airport Authority
Serves		Albany, New York
Elevation AMSL		285 ft (86.9 m)
Coordinates		42°44′53.76″N, 73°48′06.08″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
1/19	8,500	2,195	Asphalt
10/28	7,200	2,195	Asphalt

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. But 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.

1 Recent history
2 Concourses and airlines
3 Cargo carriers
4 External links

[edit] Recent history

Construction has recently been completed on the 1,300 foot runway extention 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-1990's)[4], and Frontier Airlines [5] to expand service to the airport.
On October 29, 2006, Southwest Airlines will begin 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 Airline for United Express will add service to Washington Dulles, complementing flights on Trans States Airline.

[edit] Concourses and airlines

[edit] Concourse A

Air Canada
- Air Georgian (Toronto-Pearson)
American Airlines
- American Eagle (Chicago-O'Hare)
Continental Airlines
- Continental Connection operated by CommutAir (Buffalo)
- Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Cleveland, Newark)
Northwest Airlines (Detroit)
- Northwest Airlink operated by Pinnacle Airlines (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare)
- United Express operated by GoJet Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Washington-Dulles)
- United Express operated by Shuttle America (Chicago-O'Hare)
- United Express operated by Trans States Airlines (Washington-Dulles)

[edit] Concourse B

Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
- Delta Connection operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines (Atlanta)
- Delta Connection operated by Chautauqua Airlines (New York-JFK)
- Delta Connection operated by Comair (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, New York-JFK)
- Delta Connection operated by Freedom Airlines (New York-JFK)
US Airways (Charlotte, Philadelphia, Washington-Reagan)
- US Airways Express operated by Air Wisconsin (Philadelphia, Pittsburgh)
- US Airways Express operated by Chautauqua Airlines (Pittsburgh)
- US Airways Express operated by Colgan Air (Boston, New York-LaGuardia)
- US Airways Express operated by Mesa Airlines (Charlotte)
- US Airways Express operated by Piedmont Airlines (Philadelphia,Pittsburgh)
- US Airways Express operated by PSA Airlines (Washington-Reagan)
- US Airways Express operated by Republic Airlines (Philadelphia,Washington-Reagan)