Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport

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Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport

IATA: LBB – ICAO: KLBB
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator City of Lubbock
Location Lubbock, Texas
Elevation AMSL 3,282 ft / 1,000 m
Coordinates 33°39′49″N 101°49′22″W / 33.66361, -101.82278
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
8/26 8,001 2,439 Concrete
17R/35L 11,500 3,502 Concrete
17L/35R 2,891 881 Asphalt

Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport (IATA: LBB, ICAO: KLBB) is an airport located just north of Lubbock, Texas. Originally known as Lubbock International Airport, it was renamed in 2004 to honor former Texas governor Preston E. Smith. The airport has 3 runways.

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Free Wi-Fi access is provided by the city of Lubbock throughout the airport. There are concessions located on the property including a Starbucks coffee unit. The airport is near completion on its major re-construction and re-configuration of its parking facilities. Wait times at this airport are extremely minimal usually taking about 10 minutes from entering the airport, to ticket-counters, to gate. Lubbock Preston Smith international Airport is one of only 42 airports around the world with CNN Airport Network. Scheduled passenger service utilizes 737s from Southwest, ERJ-145s from Continental Express, and ERJ-135/140/145s and CRJ-700s from American Eagle. Airborne Express sends a Douglas DC-9 on its route through Lubbock while Fedex sends a daily Airbus A310. The Airport also plays host as a hub to Fedex's feeder planes that serve cities around Lubbock. There is occasional Allegiant Airlines charter service (MD82/83 JET) although not widely publicized.

Historically, Braniff International Airways had regularly scheduled service to Amarillo and Dallas. Continental Airlines had service to Dallas, El Paso and Los Angeles. Trans-Texas Airways had service to Amarillo and Abilene. These previously scheduled flights were from the old facility before Preston Smith International operations commenced.

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The airport was opened in November 1937 as South Plains Airport. During World War II the facilty was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base and was called South Plains Army Airfield. At the end of the war the airfield was determined to be excess by the military and returned to the local government for civil use.

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  • Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Publisher: Pictorial Histories Pub, ISBN 1575100517

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