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Austin-Bergstrom Airport
Airport Directory » United States » Austin » Austin-Bergstrom AirportAustin-Bergstrom International Airport (IATA: AUS, ICAO: KAUS, FAA LID: AUS) is a mixed-use commercial airport turn up 5 land mile (8 kilometre) southeastward of the central downtown of Austin, Texas, United States. It covers 4,242 acres (1,717 ha) and has 2 landing track and 2 helipads.
The airport set about rider service on May 23, 1999. A aggregative of 8,261,310 riders moved through the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in 2006, up 7.5 pct over the 2005 put down of 7,683,545.
History
A separate airport, named Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, originally built on open farming area, 1st assisted the air traffic demands of Austin set about October 14, 1930.
In 1942, the City of Austin bought district and donated the district to the United States authority for a armed forces installment, with the condition that the town would acquire the district dorsum when the authority no longer take it. This district got Bergstrom Air Force Base.
In the 1950s, developers set about construction residential area below the voyage ways of Mueller and, in parallel, the figure of arrivals and going at the airport increased dramatically because of the development of the town. Citizens set about to sound off approximately the noise. Also, at 7,269 human foot (2,216 m), the landing track at Mueller was excessively short to deal new aeroplanes such as the 747. However, bigger aircraft such as American Airlines DC-10s and Continental Airlines Boeing 720s have been on a regular basis scheduled in the past. Before major enlargement at Mueller took location, the going area dwell of four to five entrances, not wrap but covered by a big sunblind. No jetways be at this clip.
Historic airline paths (at Mueller) included: Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, Cincinnati, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Salt Lake City, Orlando) Braniff International (San Antonio-Austin-Washington D.C. Dulles-New York City JFK), Continental Airlines (Houston-Austin-Midland/Odessa-El Paso-Phoenix-Los Angeles), Trans World Airlines (Mc Allen-Austin-St. Louis and Austin-Houston Hobby), Texas International (Austin-Lubbock-Amarillo-Denver), Eastern Air Lines (Atlanta-Austin-El Paso), Pan American World Airways (Austin-Dallas-New York City JFK), Muse Air (Houston Hobby-Austin-Midland/Odessa-Las Vegas-Los Angeles) and United Airlines (Austin-Corpus Christi and Austin-San Antonio).
The town set about considering options for a new airport as early as 1971, when the Federal Aviation Administration advised that Austin and San Antonio construct a joint regional airport. That thought was rejected, as few Austinites back up driving one-half fashion to San Antonio to catch a voyage.
In 1976, the town subjected a proposal to the United States Air Force for joint use of Bergstrom AFB. The Air Force rejected the proposal in 1978 as being excessively disruptive to its functioning.
In the 1980s, vicinities around Mueller utilised enough political force per unit area to pressure the town council to pick out a location for a new airport from places under consideration. On November 1, 1987, a elector referendum eventually okayed a location near Manor. The town set about getting the district and struggling causes from the Sierra Club and others referred approximately the Manor place.
In 1991, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission pick out Bergstrom AFB for closing and gave the nod to the town for it to be used as a civilian airport. The town council make up one's mind to give up the original programme to construct the new airport near Manor, and decided or else to travel the airport to the Bergstrom location; the electors okayed the move in 1993. Groundbreaking for the airport was November 19, 1994 and air freight functioning commenced on June 30, 1997. Bergstrom had the designator BSM until Mueller's final closing, when it took Mueller's IATA codification of AUS. On November 5, 2007 the Mexican-based bearer VivaAerobus denoted programmes to function their Boeing 737 aircraft to Austin with six new non-stop voyages to the Mexican towns Cancún, Guadalajara, León/Bajío, Monterrey, Puebla, and Querétaro. Viva Aerobus has already had blessing from the US Department of Transportation to function to those towns.
Facilities
Terminal
Barbara Jordan Terminal was projected by University of Texas at Austin Architecture prof Larry Speck. The depot is 660,000 square foot (61,000 mtwo) with a aggregative of 25 entrances. Inside the depot, many local eating house have rent grant infinite so that visitants is able to acquire a "savour of Austin" as they come through. The depot also has a dwell music level on which local sets do in holding with the spirit of Austin's declaration as "The Live Music Capital of the World."
A new committed installation known as the South Terminal Austin was okayed by the Austin City Council in say to adapt the reaching of Mexican-based, low-cost air hose, VivaAerobus, which established functioning on May 1, 2008.
Both American Airlines and Continental Airlines function lounges at this airport for fellow member of their executive director lounge programmes.
Runways
Runway 17R/35L, to the due west of the depot, is the original landing track made and used by the Air Force. The 12,248 human foot (3,733 m) long landing track was reconditioned when Austin-Bergstrom was made. The landing track is committed to former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Runway 17L/35R is a new 9,000 human foot (2,700 m) landing track on the east side of the depot and parallel with landing track 17R/35L. This landing track is committed to former Congressman J. J. "Jake" Pickle.
The landing track are watched over by a new 20-story air traffic control tower. The tower used by the Air Force was pulverised during building.
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