Wayport
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- This article is about the airport type; for information on the company, see Wayport, Inc.
A Wayport is a major airport built away from urban locations with the primary purpose of serving connecting flights as part of the national airport network. Wayports have been proposed as a potential solution in the United States to dealing with increasing congestion at major urban airports.
No wayports have been built, but the idea is being considered by the Federal Aviation Administration as it reviews future needs of the air transportation network in the United States. Due to the high number of connecting passengers using city airports which are neither the passengers' origin or destination, wayports could offload some of this demand by funnelling these passengers through rural facilities designed expressly for this purpose, allowing city airports to deal primarily with passengers originating or terminating their travel at that location. This would increase city airport capacity without new construction[1].
The concept of wayports has existed for twenty years, but has been recently touted by former FAA official William Shea as an answer for future air system development[2].
