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Pittsburgh International Airport won a three-way competition with Phoenix and Charlotte in 2007 for the right to continue as US Airways' Global Flight Operations center. Opening in November 2008, US Airways invested more than $25 million ($35.4 million today) into a 72,000-square-foot (6,700 m 2 ) facility.
Charlotte Douglas International Airport (IATA: CLT, ICAO: KCLT, FAA LID: CLT) is an international airport serving Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, located roughly 6 miles (9.7 km) west of the city's central business district. Charlotte Douglas is the primary airport for commercial and military use in the Charlotte metropolitan area.
The company has a team of more than 9,800 employees, operating flights to nearly 50 destinations. Started in 1961 as Henson Airlines, the airline was rebranded in 1993 to re-use the name of the 1948–1989 airline, Piedmont Airlines, one of the predecessors of today's American Airlines, to protect the trademark.
It has one runway designated 2/20 with an asphalt surface measuring 7,402 by 100 feet (2,256 x 30 m). [ 2 ] For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2022, the airport had 86,654 aircraft operations, an average of 237 per day: 87% general aviation , 9% air taxi , 1% military and 4% scheduled commercial .
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The first airline flights were All American Airways DC-3s in 1949; Allegheny Commuter replaced Allegheny's Convair 580s in 1971. Altoona now has service on Contour Airlines to Charlotte, North Carolina. They previously had service to Philadelphia, but switched to Charlotte in October 2024 to allow more connection opportunities. [7]