Albany International Airport

Albany International Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	CALF
IATA code	ALB
Coordinates	42 ° 44'57 "  N , 73 ° 48'7"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 44'57 "  N , 73 ° 48'7"  W.
Height above MSL	87 m (285  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	11 km northwest of Albany
Street	I-87 / NY 7 / NY 155
Local transport	bus
Basic data
opening	June 1, 1928
operator	Albany County Airport Authority
surface	474 ha
Terminals	1
Passengers	2,831,743 (2017)
Air freight	17,075 t (2017)
Flight movements	64,160 (2017)
Runways
01/19	2195 m × 46 m asphalt
10/28	2591 m × 46 m asphalt

The Albany International Airport is an international airport in Albany , the capital of the State of New York .

history

After the previous Quentin Roosevelt Field reached its capacity limits, Mayor John Boyd Thacher II announced that he would build a new, modern airport. The future location had previously been used as farmland by a Shaker community, the remains of Ann Lee buried there were reburied in a community cemetery during the course of the construction work. Since Charles Lindbergh also surveyed and approved the site, it was temporarily considered to name the new airport Lindbergh Field .

Construction work on the airport began in 1928 and on June 1 of the same year the airport opened with an airmail flight to Buffalo . First of all, three runways with a length between 2,200 ft (671 m) and 2,500 ft (762 m) were built, two of them with a macadam surface , one was designed as a cinder runway . For this purpose, two hangars and an administration building were built. The first passenger flight reached Albany on October 1 as part of the Montreal - Newark route . In 1929, 180 passengers flew with Canadian Colonial Airways from Albany to New York and 125 passengers in the opposite direction, each at a price of 25 dollars (equivalent to 372 dollars in today's purchasing power).

In 1932 there were a total of 16 daily scheduled flights for airmail and passengers. In addition to Canadian Colonial, Eastern Air Lines and American Airways had added Albany to their route network.

The Civil Aeronautics Administration decided in 1939 that the airport was "unusable" and ordered it to be closed. The city then launched a project as part of the WPA program to modernize the airport, including building a new 3,500 ft (1,067 m) runway. In December 1940, the CAA approved daylight flights and in January 1942 also approved night flights .

After the end of the Second World War , the airport was expanded again. In 1956, the CAA threatened to close the airport again because the wooden tower was a fire hazard and the runways were not suitable for jet planes . As a result, a new tower was built in 1957 and plans were made to extend the runways. The city of Albany, which has owned the airport since it was founded, determined in 1960 that it could no longer financially support the airport and sold it to Albany County for $ 4.4 million (equivalent to $ 38 million in today's purchasing power) .

After American Airlines and Mohawk Airlines , the only providers of scheduled flights since the withdrawal of Eastern Airlines and Trans World Airlines in the early 1960s, began operating jets to Albany in 1966, the north-south runway opened 6,000 ft (1,829 m) extended. In 1974 the railway was extended to the same size in the east-west direction.

In 1993 the Albany County Airport Authority was created and has been responsible for the operation of the airport ever since. At the same time, planning began for a new reception building, which was inaugurated in 1996.

Airlines and Destinations

There are scheduled flights to destinations within the United States at Albany International Airport. The largest provider is Southwest Airlines .

Traffic figures

Source: Airports Council International

Albany International Airport traffic figures 1998–2017

year	Passenger volume	Air freight ( tons ) (with airmail )	Aircraft movements (with military)
2017	2,831,743	17,075	64.160
2016	2,818,643	17,275	64,731
2015	2,589,252	17,571	60.001
2014	2,457,080	17,695	61,292
2013	2,428,976	16,821	72,765
2012	2,483,826	16,546	75,519
2011	2,480,366	15,603	80.401
2010	2,531,323	14,718	88,497
2009	2,630,578	16,555	94,513
2008	2,750,777	21,654	93,524
2007	2,874,277	26,266	110,775
2006	2,899,460	25,812	117,665
2005	3,100,743	23,688	116,942
2004	3,110,879	22,581	134,925
2003	2,863,967	22,403	138,869
2002	2,948,389	20.205	144,877
2001	3,019,810	20,020	148.331
2000	2,876,817	21,747	146.032
1999	2,354,091	21,195	148.946
1998	2,286,434	18,528	141,846

Busiest routes

Busiest national routes from Albany (2017)

rank	city	Passengers	airline
01	Baltimore , Maryland	220.150	Southwest
02	Chicago-O'Hare , Illinois	151.980	American Eagle , United Airlines / United Express
03	Orlando , Florida	139,300	Frontier , JetBlue , Southwest
04th	Atlanta , Georgia	122,620	delta
05	Charlotte , North Carolina	111,570	American / American Eagle
06th	Chicago – Midway , Illinois	089,260	Southwest
07th	Philadelphia , Pennsylvania	078,770	American Eagle
08th	Fort Lauderdale , Florida	078,610	JetBlue, Southwest
09	Detroit , Michigan	070,790	Delta, Delta Connection
10	Washington – National , Washington, DC	069,150	American Eagle

Incidents

• On September 16, 1953 it was Convair CV-240-0 of American Airlines ( air vehicle registration N94255 flown) to touch down at the Albany airport five kilometers southwest of the airport in fog in the ground. In this CFIT ( Controlled flight into terrain ) all 28 occupants, 3 crew members and 25 passengers were killed.

• On March 3, 1972, the crew reported a Fairchild Hiller FH-227 of Mohawk Airlines (N7818M) during the approach to the Albany Airport is a problem with the leaf position ( pitch ) of the left variable-pitch propeller . They also failed to bring the propeller into the sail position . The machine collided with a building about six kilometers from the runway threshold. Of the 48 occupants, 16 lost their lives, and one person was killed on the ground (see also Mohawk Airlines flight 405 ) .

Web links

Commons : Albany International Airport  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} ALB History. AlbanyAirport.com, accessed October 8, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Financial Information. AlbanyAirport.com, accessed October 8, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} North America Airport Rankings. ACI-NA.org , archived from the original on September 6, 2018 ; accessed on October 8, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} ALB route map. AlbanyAirport.com, accessed October 8, 2018 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Albany, NY: Albany International (ALB). Transtats.BTS.gov , accessed October 8, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Accident Report CV-240 N94255 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 29, 2020th
7. ↑ Accident report FH-227 N7818M , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 31, 2020.