Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	KCLE
IATA code	CLE
Coordinates	41 ° 24 '34 "  N , 81 ° 51' 18"  W Coordinates: 41 ° 24 '34 "  N , 81 ° 51' 18"  W
Height above MSL	241 m (791  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	10 miles southwest of Cleveland
Street	Ohio State Route 237 , Interstate 71 , Interstate 480
Local transport	RTA Red Line and buses
Basic data
opening	July 1, 1925
operator	Cleveland Airport System
surface	769 ha
Terminals	1 with 3 concourses
Passengers	9,642,729 (2018)
Air freight	78,088 (2018)
Flight movements	78,088 (2017)
Employees	approx. 9100
Runways
6L-24R	2743 m × 46 m concrete
6R-24L	3034 m × 46 m concrete
10-28	1834 m × 46 m concrete

The Cleveland Hopkins International Airport ( IATA : CLE , ICAO : KCLE ), until 1951 Cleveland Municipal Airport , is the municipal airport of Cleveland in the US state of Ohio . It is located approximately 10.4 miles (16.7 km) southwest of the city center between the suburbs of Olmsted and Brook Park . It opened on July 1, 1925 and is the largest airport in Ohio in terms of passenger volume with around 9.6 million air travelers and also ranks 43rd in the US. It is named after the politician and former Cleveland city ​​director William Rowland Hopkins .

Location and transport links

Geographical location

The airport is located 10.4 miles (16.7 kilometers) in a straight line southwest of the center ( Public Square ) of Cleveland , and approximately 5.1 miles (8.2 km) south of Lake Erie . It is also 241 meters above sea ​​level and therefore 67 meters above the lake.

The site is a total of 769  hectares and is located entirely within the Cleveland urban area. Roughly in the shape of a diamond , it is bounded by Brookpark Road and Interstate 480 to the north, the Berea Freeway ( Ohio State Route 237 ) to the southeast, a wooded area to the south, and the Glenn Research Center site to the northwest. The site protrudes beyond the rest of the southern city limits of Cleveland on Brookpark Road and like a wedge into the area of ​​the neighboring city of Brook Park , which surrounds the airport on three sides.

Transport links

The airport is just west of Interstate 71 Louisville - Columbus - Cleveland . It is also connected to Interstate 80 and Interstate 90 via intersecting Interstate 480 . The actual access is the Berea Freeway , which leads from Interstate 480 in a south-westerly direction along the airport grounds.

With the Red Line of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) there is a rapid transit connection to Cleveland. The trains run every 15 minutes during the day and take 24 minutes to get to the city center. There are also two express bus services operated by Lorain County Transit (LCT) to Elyria and Oberlin, Ohio in western Lorain County .

history

The first considerations for an airport in the Cleveland area go back to the time shortly after the First World War . The planning was delayed again and again; Among other things, the US federal government had set special requirements for the planned handling of airmail . City Manager William Rowland Hopkins finally obtained approval for the construction of the airfield at the said location in 1925. The construction work was completed in a very short time; As early as July 1, 1925, Cleveland Municipal Airport was the first urban airport in the United States to start operating.

In the following years the airport was equipped with a number of innovations. The world's first control tower was installed there in 1930 . At that time, it had new radio equipment for air traffic control and the world's first aviation weather service . In the same year, the world's first runway lighting ( lighting ) was installed there.

On July 26, 1951, the airport was renamed Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in honor of its builder on his 82nd birthday .

In the decades after the Second World War , the airport continued to expand due to increasing passenger numbers. The originally 162 hectare site was enlarged and a total of four new terminals were built. On November 15, 1968, the underground station , located directly under the central building, began operations; This made Cleveland the first airport in the United States with a direct high-speed train connection.

In recent years, extensive renovations have been carried out and the runways have been rebuilt and extended to make Cleveland more attractive for international flight connections. The first transatlantic flights were offered in 1999.

Operating facilities

US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) airport diagram

Runways

The airport has a total of three runways . The first two lanes, 6L-24R and 6R-24L , are 9000 and 9500 feet (2743 and 3034 meters) long and run parallel to each other at a distance of 300 meters in a south-west-north-east direction. The third runway, 10-28 , is 6,017 feet (1,834 meters) long and runs roughly in a west-east direction on the north edge of the site, crossing the other two beyond their ends.

Terminal building

The station building is on the southeast side of the site and immediately south of the third runway. It comprises four terminals (concourses) A, B, C and D in the form of long, narrow two-story low-rise buildings. The first three named are directly connected to a centrally arranged, compact, three- to five-storey central building (Main Terminal) and extend from there to the north (A), west (B) and south-west (C). The fourth terminal, D, is to the south and a little off the main building. It is also parallel to Terminal C and can only be reached from there through an underground corridor. After United Airlines abandoned the hub in Cleveland, Concourse D is no longer used. However, United is required to pay the $ 1.1 million monthly rent through 2029.

The tower stands immediately northwest of the central building. The central building is divided into two vertically. While baggage handling is on the ground floor, the passenger handling area is on the first floor. The terminal buildings offer a similar picture; The arrival and departure areas with the connecting boarding bridges are located on the first floor, while utilities and baggage sorting are located below on the ground floor.

Other facilities

To the southwest of Terminal C and D is a group of halls for air cargo and air mail . The General Aviation is spread over two locations, of which another is west of the north-east of the reception building and cargo halls.

In the northwest corner of the site there is also a NASA hangar and next to it the UPS Airlines parcel hall .

Access roads and parking spaces

The Terminal Drive access road leads onto the site from the east. It is unthreaded from the Berea Freeway crossing-free and turns into a two-story turning loop in front of the ground floor and the first floor of the central building. Within this loop are the short-term parking garage and, viewed from the central building, the smaller long-term parking garage behind it. The three buildings are connected by bridges of sighs . There is also an alternative parking space (Economy Shuttle Parking Lot) on the north side of the loop , which is connected to the central building by a shuttle bus. There are around 7,350 parking spaces at the airport.

The airport car rental center is on the north side of Interstate 480 . It is connected via shuttle buses.

Subway station

RTA airport train station

The subway station of the Red Line of the RTA is below the parking garages and can be reached from the basement of the central building. It has two butt tracks on a relatively narrow central platform . The station is barrier-free and was last renovated at the end of the 1990s.

Flight operations

Destinations

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is served by ten passenger and eight cargo airlines. Their destinations are almost exclusively within the United States and southern Canada . Other international connections play only a very minor role. Transatlantic flights in particular have so far been limited to individual, short-lived offers. Cleveland Hopkins also served as an aviation hub for United Airlines , the second largest US airline . At the beginning of February 2014, United announced that they wanted to significantly reduce the number of daily flights from Cleveland beginning in April and that this process would be completed by June 2014. After that, 72 flights are expected to be processed in Cleveland every day, up from 199 at the time of the announcement. Flights on smaller aircraft operated by United's regional partners are primarily affected by the reduction. In contrast to a full stop as a hub, United will continue to fly non-stop to destinations that are not the airline's hub. In total, Cleveland is to keep connections to 20 destinations.

Domestic destinations are primarily airports in the northeastern United States such as New York City , Chicago , Washington, DC and Boston as well as various airports in Pennsylvania and Ohio itself. Another important destination is Atlanta , the largest airport in the United States. The main international connection is to nearby Toronto ; it makes up about half of all international flights.

A flight from Cleveland to New York takes one and a half to two hours, Chicago 20 to 40 minutes, Washington DC 80 minutes, Atlanta just under two hours, and Toronto can be reached in just over an hour.

Airlines

The airport is currently (as of November 2013) served by seven passenger airlines. In addition to United Airlines , American Airlines , Delta Airlines , Frontier Airlines , Southwest Airlines , Allegiant Air , Spirit , Jetblue Airways and Air Jazz Canada also offer flight connections. Some of the flights are wet-leased by companies such as CommutAir , Chautauqua Airlines , and ExpressJet for the major US national airlines.

Traffic figures

After a steady decline in the number of passengers in recent years, the airport was in 43rd place in the US in 2018. The freight volume in 2017 was 74,502  tons . The airport thus ranks 51st in this category in the US. Just like the number of passengers, the amount of freight has been falling for years; in 2000 it was 119,424 tons and 45th place.

Cleveland Hopkins is also the fifth largest cargo airport in Ohio and the smallest of five entitlement airports in the state that are eligible for federal funding because of their importance to air cargo.

Source: Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

Source: Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport traffic figures 1998-2018

year	Passenger volume			Air freight ( tons ) (with airmail )	Aircraft movements (with military)
	National	International	total
1998	-	-	12,359,378	k. A.	308.394
1999	-	-	13.020.285	k. A.	321.420
2000	-	-	13,288,059	251.396	331,899
2001	-	-	11,864,411	232.856	291.714
2002	-	-	10,795,270	209,801	251,758
2003	-	-	10,555,387	195,304	258,460
2004	-	-	11,264,937	197.145	263,561
2005	-	-	11,463,391	197,468	258.926
2006	-	-	11,321,050	193.351	249,967
2007	-	-	11,459,390	178,945	244.719
2008	-	-	11.106.196	170,693	235.975
2009	-	-	9,715,604	169.486	200,268
2010	-	-	9,492,455	172.753	192.863
2011	-	-	9,176,824	167 411	188.286
2012	-	-	9,004,983	161,760	180.944
2013	-	-	9,072,126	k. A.	181,879
2014	-	-	7,609,404	k. A.	130,762
2015	-	-	8,100,073	k. A.	117,773
2016	8,232,215	190,461	8,422,676	75,585	118,653
2017	8.964.230	176.215	9,140,445	74.502	122,392
2018	9,417,536	225.193	9,642,729	78,088

Busiest routes

Busiest national routes from Cleveland (2018)

rank	city	Passengers	Airlines
01	Atlanta , Georgia	0460,470	Delta , Southwest , Spirit
02	Chicago-O'Hare , Illinois	0419.680	American , United
03	Denver , Colorado	0229.780	Frontier, Southwest, United
04th	Orlando , Florida	0224,340	Frontier, Spirit, United
05	Charlotte , North Carolina	0194,350	American
06th	Chicago – Midway , Illinois	0187.330	Southwest
07th	Dallas / Fort Worth , Texas	0184,820	American, Spirit
08th	Las Vegas , Nevada	0184,000	Frontier, Southwest, Spirit
09	New York – LaGuardia , New York	0177.210	American, Delta, United
10	Boston , Massachusetts	0147.310	JetBlue , Spirit, United

Surroundings

Glenn Research Center (GRC), behind the airport

There are three other building complexes worth mentioning in the vicinity of the airport. They are all in the Brook Park metropolitan area:

• Northwest of the airport, behind the hangar, is NASA's Glenn Research Center (GRC) . Its main role is the development of aerospace technologies.
• To the southeast of the reception building, on the other side of the Berea Freeway , is a large Ford Motor Company production facility . Engines and cast parts are manufactured there in a total of three plants .
• Southwest of the halls for the air freight is the Exhibition and Convention Center (convention center) International Exposition Center (IX Center) . The 320 by 370 meter former assembly hall for B-29 bombers houses a total of 78,500 m² of exhibition space. Together with a further 158,000 m² of outdoor space and around 6,450 parking spaces, the IX is one of the largest such facilities in the USA.

literature

• Historic American Engineering Record: Cleveland Municipal Airport, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH , in: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress), Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, DC 20540 USA
• Matowitz, Thomas G .: Cleveland's National Air Races. Images of America . Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC 2005, ISBN 978-0-7385-3996-6 .
• Miller, Craig M .: Airport Development in the '70's: A Case Study of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport . Intercollegiate Clearing House, Boston, MA 1979.
• Van Tassel, David D., and John J. Grabowski .: The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History . Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN 1987, ISBN 978-0-253-31303-4 .

Web links

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

• Official website of the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (English)
• Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: CLEVELAND-HOPKINS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT , 1997 (online edition by Van Tassel (1987); English; accessed December 15, 2008)
• TravelSmart Ltd: Airports Guides: Cleveland Hopkins Airport (CLE) Information: Airport in Cleveland Area, OH, USA , 2008. (accessed December 15, 2008)
• Official map of Brook Park (shows the airport and the surrounding area; accessed December 14, 2008) (PDF file; 723 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Airport Terminal Map. ClevelandAirport.com, accessed April 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Facts & Figures. ClevelandAirport.com, accessed April 22, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} North America Airport Rankings. ACI-NA.org , accessed April 22, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Cleveland Hopkins International Airport: Cleveland Hopkins International Airport - Schedule effective December 2008 (PDF; 1.1 MB) , December 2008 (accessed December 15, 2008)
5. ^ Ohio Department of Transportation, Division of Planning: Ohio's Intermodal Transportation System ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , October 2007 (English; accessed December 16, 2008)  
6. ^ Cleveland, OH: Cleveland-Hopkins International (CLE). Transtats.BTS.gov , accessed April 22, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Non-Stop Cities. ClevelandAirport.com, accessed April 22, 2019 . 
8. ^ Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: NASA LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER , 1997. (Online edition by Van Tassel (1987); English; accessed December 16, 2008)
9. ↑ NASA: NASA Glenn Home . (Official website of the Glenn Research Center; accessed December 16, 2008)
10. ^ Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: FORD MOTOR CO. , 2002. (Online edition by Van Tassel (1987); English; accessed December 16, 2008)
11. ↑ Ford Motor Company: Facilities - Ford Motor Company Newsroom ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (English; accessed December 16, 2008)  
12. ↑ Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: IX CENTER , 1997 (online edition by Van Tassel (1987); English; accessed December 16, 2008)
13. ↑ International Exposition Center: IX Center - Facility Overview ( Memento of the original dated November 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (English; accessed December 16, 2008)