Glacier Park International Airport

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Glacier Park International Airport
IATA: GPI - ICAO: KGPI
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Flathead Municipal Airport Authority
Serves Kalispell, Montana
Elevation AMSL 2,977 ft (907.4 m)
Coordinates 48°18′41.1″N, 114°15′18.3″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
2/20 9,002 2,744 Asphalt
12/30 3,521 1,073 Asphalt

Glacier Park International Airport (IATA: GPI, ICAO: KGPI) is a public airport serving Flathead County, Montana. Towns in the nearby area include Kalispell, Evergreen, Columbia Falls, and Whitefish. It is also the main airport serving Glacier National Park. The airport's former ICAO code was KFCA.

[edit] History

The airport was original built in 1942 under the name Flathead County Airport. For many years, passenger traffic remained fairly low. In 1970, the airport was designated for international traffic and changed to the current name. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, traffic picked up substantially, as Hughes Airwest, Western Airlines and Horizon Air offered flights. The terminal was upgraded in 1981, and further major upgrades to the terminal, runways and other facilities occurred throughout the 1990s. Between 1974 and 1998, the passenger traffic increased more than fivefold. [1]

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