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|- !colspan="4" style="text-align: center; background-color: #4682B4; color: white;" |Runways |- !bgcolor="lightgrey" rowspan="2"|Direction !bgcolor="lightgrey" colspan="2"|Length !bgcolor="lightgrey" rowspan="2"|Surface |- !bgcolor="lightgrey"|ft !bgcolor="lightgrey"|m |- !align="left" valign="top"|9/27 |valign="top" align="right"|12,000 |valign="top" align="right"|3,658 |valign="top"|Asphalt/Concrete/Grooved |- !align="left" valign="top"|18R/36L |valign="top" align="right"|8,000 |valign="top" align="right"|2,438 |valign="top"|Concrete/Grooved |- !align="left" valign="top"|18C/36C |valign="top" align="right"|11,000 |valign="top" align="right"|3,353 |valign="top"|Asphalt/Concrete/Grooved |- !align="left" valign="top"|18L/36R |valign="top" align="right"|10,000 |valign="top" align="right"|3,048 |valign="top"|Concrete/Grooved |- |align="center" colspan="4"|

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is located in Hebron, Kentucky, United States in Boone County and serves the Greater Cincinnati metropolitan area. Despite being located in Boone County, the airport operations are governed by the (neighboring) Kenton County Airport Board. The airport's code, CVG, comes from the nearest major city at the time of its opening, Covington, Kentucky, although the city of Cincinnati likes to say it stands for "Cincinnati Very Good."

The airport's terminal/remote-concourse configuration, combined with simultaneous triple landing/takeoff capabilities, makes CVG a particularly efficient airport for flight operations. CVG is the second largest hub of Delta Air Lines and is the central hub of Delta's wholly-owned subsidiary airline, Comair, which provides regional jet service under the Delta Connection banner. As such, the airport serves an important role in Delta's midwest hub-and-spoke system. However, after Delta's bankruptcy was announced in 2005, flight bank cutbacks were announced that directly affected CVG. Capacity and frequency to many cities has been reduced in the late-hour flight banks to better match local demand, though several services were ended altogether. After the reduction, CVG now offers 512 flights per day to 121 nonstop destinations.

In addition, the airport is the third most important international hub for Delta and member airlines of the SkyTeam Alliance, offering daily international flights to Paris, London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Nassau, Rome, Montreal, and Toronto. Delta and Comair also offer weekly flights to Montego Bay, Jamaica; Cancún, Mexico; and recently Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

The airport has 3 terminals. Terminal 1 is now only served by US Airways Express, though it was recently announced the airline will be relocated to a renovated Terminal 2 within the next year so that the airport may curtail its operating costs. American Airlines and United Airlines both operate in Terminal 2. Terminal 3, built specifically for and by Delta, has 3 remote concourses connected by an underground tram. Terminal 3 is served by Delta, it's regional affiliates, and Skyteam partners Continental, Northwest, and Air France. USA 3000, and previously Transmeridian Airlines also use this terminal, as it is the only one with US customs offices.

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Terminals

Terminal 1

Terminal 2

Terminal 3

Cargo Airlines

Notable disasters

On June 2, 1983, Air Canada Flight 797, which was flying on a Houston-Dallas-Toronto route, made an emergency landing at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport; about half of the passengers died of smoke inhalation and fire.

On August 13, 2004, a Convair CV-580 owned by Air Tahoma was en-route to KCVG from Memphis, TN, carrying overnight freight under contract for DHL Worldwide Express. The Captain started fuel cross-feed operations about an hour into the flight, and allowed it to continue unmonitored for approximately 30 minutes. This resulted in a dual engine flame-out situation caused by fuel starvation while on final approach to runway 36R. The aircraft barely missed Interstate 75 and crashed into a golf course approximately 1 Km south of the airfield, killing the First Officer and injuring the Captain. No one was on the golf course at the time of the crash.

Industrial Murals

The airport is home to 14 large Art Deco murals that were originally created for the Cincinnati Union Station during the Great Depression. Mosaic murals depicting people at work in local Cincinnati workplaces were incorporated into the interior design of the railroad station by Winold Reiss, a German-born artist with a reputation in interior design.

When one Concourse of the Station was designated for demolition in 1972, a "Save the Terminal Committee" raised funds to remove and transport the 14 murals in the concourse to new locations in the Airport. They were placed in Terminal 1, and in Terminals 2 and 3 then being constructed as part of a major airport expansion and rennovation.

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