Pittsburgh International Airport

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Pittsburgh International Airport
Piteagle.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code KPIT
IATA code PIT
Coordinates

40 ° 29 ′ 29 ″  N , 80 ° 13 ′ 58 ″  W Coordinates: 40 ° 29 ′ 29 ″  N , 80 ° 13 ′ 58 ″  W
Height above MSL 367 m (1204  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 14 miles west of Pittsburgh
Street Interstate 376 , Pennsylvania Route 576
Local transport buses
Basic data
opening 1952
operator Allegheny County Airport Authority
surface 3561 ha
Terminals 1 with 4 concourses
Passengers 9,779,024 (2019)
Air freight 89,510 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		148,119 (2019)
Employees 10,700 (2015)
Runways
10C / 28C 2959 m × 46 m concrete / asphalt
10R / 28L 3505 m × 61 m
concrete
10L / 28R 3201 m × 46 m concrete / asphalt
14/32 2469 m × 46 m
concrete



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The Pittsburgh International Airport (originally Greater Pittsburgh Airport ) is the airport of the city of Pittsburgh in the US state of Pennsylvania . It serves both as a civil airport and as a base for the Air Force Reserve Command and the Air National Guard .

Location and transport links

Pittsburgh Airport Scheme (obsolete)

Pittsburgh Airport is located in Findlay Township , a township in Allegheny County , 14 miles west of downtown Pittsburgh on Interstate 376 and Pennsylvania Route 576 . The airport is connected to Pittsburgh and other communities in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area by three bus routes .

history

Compass rose as terrazzo flooring in the original terminal building

In 1940 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) acquired a farm in Allegheny County and began building a military airfield there. In 1944, the county administration proposed building a civil passenger terminal to relieve the existing Allegheny County Airport . In 1946 construction began on a terminal building made of concrete, steel and glass according to plans by Joseph W. Hoover and on May 31, 1952, Greater Pittsburgh Airport was opened. In the first year of operation, 1.4 million passengers were handled.

The terminal building was expanded for the first time in 1959, in the same year Trans World Airlines (TWA) opened the first scheduled connection with a jet aircraft from Pittsburgh with a Boeing 707 , later TWA opened a hub at Pittsburgh Airport that was operated until 1985. From 1970 to 1972 the airport was expanded in order to be able to handle international flights. After completion of the work, it was given its current name Pittsburgh International Airport . In 1985 British Airways offered the first transatlantic flight from Pittsburgh, the connection to London was offered until 1999 with some changes.

Despite further extensions, the terminal building no longer met the requirements, so that a new building was built from 1987 to 1992. The construction was supported by USAir as the main user of the airport at the time. The old terminal was demolished in 1999 after being used as an office building.

In the 1990s, development at Pittsburgh Airport stagnated until, in 2004 , USAir, now trading as US Airways , announced that it would significantly reduce flight operations in Pittsburgh. This was preceded by the demand to lower landing fees. Instead of the previous 542 flights, including international destinations, only around 170 flights were offered in 2005 and 68 flights a day in 2008 to predominantly national destinations. In response, the airport authority has since tried to recruit more low-cost airlines such as Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways . In October 2007 US Airways set up a flight operations center at Pittsburgh Airport, and since March 2009 a logistics center has also been built. In addition, Delta Airlines (in codeshare with Air France) has been offering a transatlantic flight from Pittsburgh to Paris again since June 2009. A Boeing 757-200 is used every day.

business

Pittsburgh Airport is connected to the major American hubs. There are also direct connections to other domestic American destinations and individual international connections. No airline has operated a hub at Pittsburgh Airport since US Airways withdrew, and parts of the terminal building are unused.

A free trade zone has been set up at Pittsburgh Airport , and the Lufthansa subsidiary LSG Sky Chefs operates a production facility on the air freight site, from which the catering for North America is handled.

The military section of the airport, Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station, is home to the 911th Airlift Wing as part of the Airport Reserve Command and the 171st Air Refueling Wing as part of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard.

Traffic figures

Source: Allegheny County Airport Authority
Source: Allegheny County Airport Authority
Source: Allegheny County Airport Authority
Pittsburgh International Airport traffic figures 1980-2019
year Passenger volume Air Freight ( Tons )
Air Mail 		Aircraft movements
(with military)
National International total
2019 9,535,318 243,706 9,779,024 89,510 148.119
2018 9,367,475 291,422 9,658,897 87,442 151.414
2017 8,732,330 255.686 8,988,016 82,582 148,681
2016 8,103,487 206.267 8,309,754 83.116 141,630
2015 7,968,234 159,953 8,128,187 77,513 141,674
2014 7,852,945 146.025 7,998,970 75,670 135.293
2013 7,747,154 137.016 7,884,170 78.210 139,300
2012 7,903,073 138.284 8,041,357 79,474 139.217
2011 8,145,003 155,307 8.300.310 79,807 148,782
2010 8,046,709 148,650 8,195,359 77,348 144,563
2009 7,892,505 138,670 8,031,175 71,984 147.720
2008 8,599,370 110,921 8,710,291 82,634 167,729
2007 9,681,440 141.148 9,822,588 84,280 209.303
2006 9,873,001 114,309 9.987.310 84,698 235.264
2005 10,321,432 157.173 10,478,605 86,252 268,623
2004 12,829,836 441.873 13.271.709 100.297 336.346
2003 13,818,686 448.298 14,266,984 121,556 361,329
2002 17,252,652 774.513 18,027,165 140.193 424.974
2001 - - 19,945,246 139.083 -
2000 - - 19,816,511 147.044 -
1999 - - 18,785,728 146.783 -
1998 - - 20,556,075 157.302 -
1997 - - 20,759,723 163.926 -
1996 - - 20,533,660 156,651 -
1995 - - 20.012.251 151.852 -
1994 - - 19.490.709 150.273 -
1993 - - 18,446,663 145.994 -
1992 - - 18,748,884 143,318 -
1991 - - 16,735,015 126.269 -
1990 - - 17,145,831 128.099 -
1989 - - 17.145.272 114.364 -
1988 - - 17,987,040 109,672 -
1987 - - 17,457,801 99,631 -
1986 - - 15,989,507 89,671 -
1985 - - 15.058.178 89,321 -
1984 - - 13,414,626 78.187 -
1983 - - 11,885,118 68,780 -
1982 - - 9,986,374 61,487 -
1981 - - 10.112.266 61,217 -
1980 - - 11,458,512 68,329 -

Busiest routes

Busiest national routes from Pittsburgh (2019)
rank city Passengers Airlines
01 Atlanta , Georgia 472.970 Delta , Southwest
02 Chicago-O'Hare , Illinois 334,690 American , United
03 Charlotte , North Carolina 295,820 American
04th Orlando , Florida 260,900 Frontier , Southwest, Spirit
05 Boston , Massachusetts 211,900 Delta, JetBlue
06th Denver , Colorado 209,890 Frontier, Southwest, United
07th New York – LaGuardia , New York 180,630 American, Delta
08th Dallas / Fort Worth , Texas 178.040 American
09 Chicago – Midway , Illinois 161,620 Southwest
10 Newark , New Jersey 158.160 United

Incidents

  • On April 1, 1956, a Martin 404 of the TWA ( aircraft registration number N40403 ) crashed 500 meters southwest of Greater Pittsburgh Airport shortly after take-off. After a (only optical) fire warning at a height of 30 meters, the left engine was switched off, whereby the propeller was not brought into the sail position in the very short time available due to uncoordinated action by the two pilots . Due to the high air resistance, the ground came into contact. Of the 36 inmates, 22 were killed.
  • On September 8, 1994, a crashed Boeing 737-300 of USAir (N513AU) in Aliquippa (Pennsylvania) landing at the Pittsburgh International Airport from a height of 1100 meters almost vertically from. The cause was a defect in the rudder, which led to full deflection and loss of control. All 132 people on board were killed (see also USAir flight 427 ) .

Web links

Commons : Pittsburgh International Airport  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Economic Impact. FlyPittsburgh.com, accessed August 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Airport Statistics. FlyPittsburgh.com, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c Airport Statistics. FlyPittsburgh.com, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Reports & Financials. FlyPittsburgh.com, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh International (PIT). Transtats.BTS.gov , accessed April 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Nonstop Destinations. FlyPittsburgh.com, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  7. ↑ ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest 8, Circular 54-AN / 49, Montreal 1958 (English), pp. 67-71.
  8. ↑ accident report Martin 404 N40403 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 7 March of 2019.
  9. ↑ accident report B 737-300 N513AU , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 26 November 2017th
  10. ↑ NTSB DCA94MA076, accident of September 8, 1994 in Aliquippa, PA, Boeing B-737-300 ( Memento of July 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )