Kalamazoo-Battle Creek International Airport
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Kalamazoo-Battle Creek International Airport is an airport in Kalamazoo, Michigan, near Battle Creek, Michigan. It has a 7-gate passenger terminal (Gates 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3, 4, and 5) and a larger state of the art replacement terminal has been planned, but construction has been held back due to some government grants that have a lack of funding.
The airport has an operating ATC Tower, and an approach/ departure conroll center, making for a class "D" airport with a TRSA (Terminal Radar Service Area).
The airport sees on average 200,000 passengers every year through commercial service, and many independent, private pilots choose to house their aircraft at the airport's south tee complex due to the high level of security and the barbed wire fencing surrounding the entire perimeter of the field.
At the airport, three fixed based operators have operations.
FBOs: - Duncan Aviation provides fuel, a pilots lounge, chart sales, 24 hour vending, and is a full service FBO. - Kalamazoo Pilots Association provides at cost 100LL self serve fuel to local and visitng pilots 24 hours per day. - Kalamazoo Aircraft Inc. provides maintence services for a variety or aircraft, and offers some of the region's best mechanical services.
Airlines and destinations
- American Airlines
- * American Eagle (Chicago-O'Hare, on a ERJ)
- Delta Air Lines
- * Delta Connection operated by Comair (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky on a CRJ)
- *Delta Connection operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines (Atlanta on a CRJ)
- Northwest Airlines (Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul on a DC-9)
- * Northwest Airlink operated by Mesaba Airlines (Detroit on a SAAB 340 or RJ-85)
- * Northwest Airlink operated by Pinnacle Airlines (Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul on a CRJ)
- United Airlines
- * United Express operated by SkyWest (Chicago-O'Hare on a CRJ)
The airport is currently undergoing construction on runway 17/35, and an expansion is being added to the 35 end of the runway. The lenght of the expansion has not yet been officially publsihed, and the runway threshold lighting is set to the old threshold, but displacement markings have not been added to the runway, indicating that the new length should be opening soon later in 2006.
External links
- [Kalamazoo-Battle Creek International Airport]
- [Michigan Bureau of Aeronautics]
- Resources for this airport:
- * AirNav [airport information for KAZO]
- * FlightAware [airport information] and [live flight tracker]
- * NOAA/NWS [current] and [historical] weather observations
- * SkyVector [aeronautical chart for KAZO]
- * FAA [current AZO delay information]
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