KALB
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| Albany International Airport | |||
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| Image:FAA diagram of Albany International Airport.png
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| IATA: ALB – ICAO: KALB | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public
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| Operator | Albany County Airport Authority
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| Location | 285
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| Elevation AMSL | 86.9 ft / m
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| Coordinates |
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 1/19 | 8,500 | 2,591 | Asphalt
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| 10/28 | 7,200 | 2,195 | Asphalt
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Albany International Airport Template:Airport codes is an airport of entry <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> serving Albany, New York. It is located in the Town of Colonie, New York, about 6 miles (10 km) north of Albany.
Albany International Airport can accept most aircraft. In the past, most airlines operated mainline aircraft to ALB and the biggest aircraft that flew into ALB was Air Force One (Boeing 747) in 1995, and Air Canada's Airbus A340-300 (which has seating for 286) has arrived on December 21, 2007. Occasionally Delta runs a Boeing 757-200 during holiday periods, and many times a week, UPS runs a 757-200 in for cargo. Today, about half of the planes that depart and land in ALB are operated by regional aircraft. The only airlines to still operate mainline aircraft are: Northwest Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, and US Airways. The largest passenger aircraft to fly into ALB today is the Boeing 737-400, which is operated by US Airways. However, a couple times each month, Northwest rotates an Airbus A320 with seating for 148 passengers. Although the airport is significant and well-equipped, it is essentially a domestic airport, with its only scheduled international flights to Canada. MetroAir Virtual launched service to Albany in August of 2008.
ALB has pay-as-you-go Wi-Fi access throughout the entire airport provided by WiFiFee.
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Recent history
- American Eagle will be ending service to ALB on November 5th. Originally ALB had service by American Airlines, but ended after 9/11.
- US Airways used to have major operations at Albany. Including its own hangar, US Airways Club, MetroJet services to Orlando and Baltimore, and dozens of mainline flights a day. These services were cut down when US Airways went bankrupt in the period after the 9-11 attacks.
- Construction has recently been completed on the Template:Convert runway extension for runway 1/19. The runway now measures Template:Convert.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- With the January 2006 shutdown of Independence Air, the airport is in further discussions with JetBlue Airways (which serves all other major upstate airports), AirTran Airways|AirTran (which served Albany for a brief period in the late 1990s) [1], and Frontier Airlines <ref name="alb-durr1">Template:Cite news</ref> to expand service to the airport.
- In the past ALB had been serviced by Delta Express flying to Orlando and Tampa, MetroJet flying to Orlando and Baltimore. In those airlines' final years of operation, when they flew alongside Southwest Airlines, Albany had up to eight flights to Orlando.
- ALB will become a Focus City for Cape Air flying to Watertown, Ogdensburg, and Massena.
CommutAir Hub
In early 2001, CommutAir started to invest in an Albany hub. The hub was to connect smaller cities with bigger cities with Continental Express and mainline. At its peak CommutAir served numerous cities in the Northeast.. The hub was closed down in late 2005 to shift operations to Cleveland. Most of the markets did do very well. The hub was served by Beachcraft 1900's operated by CommutAir for Continental Connection. CommutAir no longer uses the Beechcraft 1900.
Airlines and destinations
Concourse A
Concourse A has 7 gates.
- American Airlines Gate A3
- American Eagle Airlines|American Eagle (Chicago-O'Hare [ends November 5])
- Northwest Airlines Gates A4 (Detroit)
- Northwest Airlink (Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul)
- United Airlines Gates A5-A6 (Chicago-O'Hare)
- United Express (Chicago-O'Hare, Washington-Dulles)
Concourse B
Concourse B has 10 gates.
- Delta Air Lines Gates B4, B5, B7
- Delta Connection (Atlanta, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, New York-JFK)
- US Airways Gates B1, B2, B8-B11 (Charlotte, Philadelphia, Washington-Reagan)
- US Airways Express (Boston, Buffalo, Charlotte, New York-LaGuardia, Philadelphia, Washington-Reagan)
Concourse C
Concourse C has 4 gates.
- Air Canada Gate C1A
- Air Canada operated by Air Georgian (Toronto-Pearson)
- Continental Airlines Gate C1 (Newark)
- Continental Connection (Cleveland, Newark)
- Continental Express (Cleveland, Newark)
- Southwest Airlines Gates C2, C3 (Baltimore/Washington, Chicago-Midway, Fort Lauderdale [begins November 2], Las Vegas, Orlando, Tampa)
Cargo carriers
- Air Cargo Carriers
- AirNet Express|AirNet Systems
- Ameriflight
- FedEx Express
- United Parcel Service|UPS
Gate Assignment
MetroAir operates out of the Main Terminal at KALB.
Flight Planning Resources
- Airport Diagram
- Terminal Procedures - contains SID, STAR and IAP
IFR Routes
Pilots should add their IFR route plans originating from KALB here as a central repository for their fellow pilots. <ref></ref> |}
References
- Albany International Airport (official site)
- Template:FAA-airport
