| Santa Fe Municipal Airport | |||
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| IATA: SAF – ICAO: KSAF – FAA LID: SAF | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | City of Santa Fe | ||
| Location | Santa Fe, New Mexico | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 6,348 ft / 1,934.9 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 2/20 | 8,342 | 2,543 | Asphalt |
| 15/33 | 6,307 | 1,922 | Asphalt |
| 10/28 | 6,300 | 1,920 | Asphalt |
Santa Fe Municipal Airport (IATA: SAF, ICAO: KSAF) is a public airport located nine miles (14 km) southwest of the central business district (CBD) of Santa Fe, a city in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA. It covers 2,120 acres (858 ha) and has three runways.
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Historically, the airport had non-stop Douglas DC-9 jet service to Dallas Love Field on Texas International Airlines, as well as non-stop service to Phoenix, AZ on America West Express, which utilized Beech 1900 equipment operated by Mesa Airlines.
In June 2007, the airport was upgraded to Class 1 status to allow regional jet service. The city's government and interested airlines entered negotiations to split the cost of necessary upgrades to the facility to cope with increased passengers. In July 2007, Delta Air Lines announced new regional jet service would commence between Santa Fe and Los Angeles International Airport, as well as Salt Lake City International Airport; this would have been the first regional jet service for the Santa Fe Municipal Airport. All scheduled services, including planned American Airlines flights to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport announced shortly after Delta, were suspended indefinitely pending federal approval of an environmental assessment. Both Delta and American removed all flights to Santa Fe from their schedules and it was unknown if or when flights would begin.[1]
The completion of the environmental impact statement was announced on February 26, 2009, but neither Delta or American Airlines immediately announced any resumption of their intentions to serve the facility, citing changed economic conditions.[2] On March 12, 2009 the City of Santa Fe announced that American Airlines' regional affiliate American Eagle would begin one daily flight to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on June 11, 2009. On the same day service began, American Eagle also announced additional service to Los Angeles International Airport beginning November 19, 2009.[3]
On July 27, 2009, American Eagle announced a second daily flight to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Service began on November 19, 2009. On December 14, 2009, a third daily flight to Dallas-Fort Worth was announced. Service began on February 11, 2010[4]. However, on June 18, 2010, it was announced that service would temporarily revert to two daily flights to Dallas-Fort Worth in August 2010, with the third flight expected to return in April 2011[5].
On February 28, 2011, it was announced that the third daily flight to Dallas-Fort Worth would return in April as planned, and that a fourth daily flight would begin in July 2011[6]. The third daily flight will operated until November 16, 2011, and the fourth daily flight operated from July 2, 2011 to August 22, 2011.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| American Eagle | Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles |