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Construction of the airport began in 1980 and it opened on schedule on May 14, 1983. Upon opening, the airport was named Southwest Florida Regional Airport (the airport code RSW is short for "Regional South-West"). [9] Originally, the airport included a single 8400-ft runway and a passenger terminal with 14 gates on two concourses.
On January 4, 1985, an armed 42-year-old Cleveland woman named Oranette Mays hijacked Pan Am flight 558, a Boeing 727 scheduled to fly from Cleveland to New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. During the boarding process for the flight in Cleveland, Mays shot her way onto the plane, shooting and injuring a USAir employee who ...
This is a list of airports in Florida (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
The airport also is the site of a new Brightline station with trains that run to and from South Florida several times a day. Orlando also has a lot many more northbound flights for Southwest than ...
Gates Airport covers an area of 146 acres (59 ha) at an elevation of 1,110 feet (338 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 8/26 with a turf and gravel surface measuring 2,800 by 100 feet (853 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending September 9, 2010, the airport had 4,200 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 11 ...
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International in Florida – 34.87% of flights delayed, 4.63% canceled. Harry Reid International in Las Vegas – 31.44% of flights delayed, 1.47% canceled
To I-75 / Alico Road (CR 840 east) – Southwest Florida International Airport 136.129: 219.078: SR 865 north (Ben C. Pratt Six Mile Cypress Parkway) / CR 865 south (Gladiolus Drive) – Beaches 137.389: 221.106: To I-75 / Cypress Lake Drive / Daniels Parkway – Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Center, Southwest Florida International Airport
Southwest built a 5-gate international terminal at William P. Hobby Airport that opened in 2015. Southwest also built a 5-gate international terminal in Fort Lauderdale that opened in 2017. [9] In 2021, a 5-gate extension of terminal A at Baltimore/Washington International Airport opened. Southwest is the sole occupant of Terminal A and it ...