Albany International Airport
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Albany International Airport is an airport of entry [link] serving Albany, New York. It is located in the Town of Colonie about 6 miles (10 km) north of Albany.
Albany International Airport can accept most aircraft. But although the airport is significant and well-equipped, it is essentially a domestic airport, with its only scheduled international flights to Canada.
Major airlines have served the short route between this airport and the New York City area's other airports: Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, LaGuardia Airport in Flushing, New York, and John F. Kennedy International Airport in Jamaica, New York Currently, Continental Express serves Albany International Airport from its Newark Liberty International Airport hub, and US Airways Express carrier Colgan Air serves New York's LaGuardia Airport from Albany. After a hiatus of three years, service to JFK will resume on August 1, 2006 when Delta Connection carrier Freedom Airlines begins four flights a day to JFK from Albany.
CommutAir, flying as Continental Connection, had dozens of daily non-stop flights to 20 destinations from a "micro-hub" created at Albany International Airport [link]. At its peak, it operated five banks of flights out of three gates (A1, A1a, A2), completely occupying the airside's lower-level. The hub was downsized and eventually closed down in 2005, leaving [Buffalo, Syracuse, Saranac Lake, Plattsburgh, Burlington VT, Providence RI, Hartford CT] as CommutAir's destinations from Albany.
Recent history
- Construction has recently been completed on the 1,300 foot runway extension for runway 1/19. The runway now measures 8,500 feet. [link]
- With the January 2006 shutdown of Independence Air, the airport is in further discussions with jetBlue (which serves all other major upstate airports), AirTran (which served Albany for a brief period in the late-1990's)[link], and Frontier Airlines [link] to expand service to the airport.
Concourses and airlines
Concourse A
- Air Canada Gates A2, A6 (Serviced by United Airlines)
- * Air Canada operated by Air Georgian (Toronto)
- American Airlines Gate A3
- * American Eagle (Chicago-O'Hare)
- Continental Airlines Gate A1, A1a, A2
- * Continental Connection operated by CommutAir (Buffalo, Boston, Plattsburgh, Rutland)
- Northwest Airlines Gate A4 (Detroit)
- * Northwest Airlink operated by Mesaba Airlines (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
- United Airlines Gates A5, A6 (Chicago-O'Hare)
- * United Express operated by GoJet Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare)
- * United Express operated by Shuttle America (Chicago-O'Hare)
- * United Express operated by SkyWest (Chicago-O'Hare)
- * United Express operated by Trans States Airlines (Washington-Dulles)
Concourse B
- Delta Air Lines Gates B5, B7 (Atlanta)
- * Delta Connection operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines (Atlanta)
- * Delta Connection operated by Comair (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky)
- * Delta Connection operated by Freedom Airlines (New York-JFK [starting 7/17/06])
- US Airways Gates B8, B9, B10, B11 (Charlotte, Orlando [seasonal], Philadelphia, Washington-Reagan)
- * US Airways Express operated by Air Wisconsin (Philadelphia, Pittsburgh)
- * US Airways Express operated by Colgan Air (Boston, New York-LaGuardia)
- * US Airways Express operated by Mesa Airlines (Charlotte)
- * US Airways Express operated by Piedmont Airlines (Pittsburgh)
- * US Airways Express operated by Republic Airlines (Washington-Reagan)
Concourse C
- Continental Airlines Gate C1
- * Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Cleveland, Newark)
- Southwest Airlines Gates C2 and C3 (Baltimore/Washington, Chicago-Midway, Las Vegas, Orlando)
- Aircargo Carriers
- Airnet Systems
- Ameriflight
- FedEx
- Gail Force
- UPS
External links
- [Albany International Airport] (official site)
- [FAA Airport Diagram] (PDF)
- [New York State DOT Airport Diagram] (PDF)
- Resources for this airport:
- * AirNav [airport information for KALB]
- * FlightAware [airport information] and [live flight tracker]
- * NOAA/NWS [current] and [historical] weather observations
- * SkyVector [aeronautical chart for KALB]
- * FAA [current ALB delay information]
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