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A man walks by a food court in concourse A at the new Kansas City International Airport terminal Feb. 18 in Kansas City. Art in the airport The new terminal also features the largest public art ...
Check out these how-to videos about Kansas City International Airport’s new single terminal that show what travelers can expect when the new terminal opens next week.
The airport had limited area for expansion (Fairfax Airport across the Missouri River in Kansas City, Kansas, covered a larger area). Airplanes had to avoid the 200-foot (60 m) Quality Hill and the Downtown Kansas City skyline south of the south end of the main runway. In the early 1960s, an FAA memo called it "the most dangerous major airport ...
TWA's main overhaul base was a former B-25 bomber factory at Fairfax, and TWA commercial flights flew out of the main downtown airport. Subsequently Kansas City planned to build an airport with room for 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runways and knew the downtown airport would not be large enough.
The primary responsibility of Kansas City Center is sequencing and separation of over-flights, arrivals, and departures in order to provide safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of aircraft filed under instrument flight rules (IFR). Kansas City Center is the 15th busiest ARTCC in the United States.
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Kansas City Airport may refer to airports in the Kansas City metro area. Kansas City International Airport (IATA: MCI) Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport (IATA: MKC)
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