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Portland Jetport Airport
Airport Directory » United States » Portland » Portland Jetport AirportPortland International Jetport (IATA: PWM, ICAO: KPWM, FAA LID: PWM) is a public airport turn up 2 land mile (three kilometre) due west of the central downtown of Portland, in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. It is owned by the City of Portland.
This regional airport assists much of Maine and is the busiest airport in the province. In 2007, the airport managed a enter 1,648,568 riders, up 17.0% from the previous yr. Recently, the Jetport has profited from service by low-cost bearers such as JetBlue and AirTran Airways. PWM is currently in the function of spreading out and updating its depot to let more air hose service.
History
The field was constituted in the late 1920s by Dr. Clifford “Kip” Strange, who take infinite for his JN-4 "Jenny" Biplane. Known as Stroudwater Field, the airport had its 1st commercial service on December 17, 1934. Two yr after, the town of Portland purchased the field and modified its name to Portland-Westbrook-Municipal. "Westbrook" bring up to the place of the last directional visible radiation before the airport in the nearby city of Westbrook.
The current airport set about to take characteristic in the 1950s to 60s. Runway 11/29 was built in 1957 and continued to 6,800 human foot (2,073 m) in 1966. The current depot was opened in 1968, when jet plane service set about.
In 2004, the City of Portland once more continued the landing track, to 7,200 human foot (2,195 m), to adapt bigger aircraft.
The depot has been spread out at smallest twice, and there are programs for a further enlargement of the concourse in 2009.
Other modifies include improvements to the depot and baggage demand, reconfiguration of the airport slip road and depot routes, and rehabilitation and enlargement of the parkland garage. The City of Portland is also program to spread out the civil aviation incline, enlarge the load incline and installations, reconfigure the alignment of taxi strip, and finally reconfigure landing track 18/36.
The airport was the terminus a quo of Mohammed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari's moves on September 11, 2001. The brace winged to Boston, where they get on American Airlines Flight 11 and afterward commandeered it and crashed it into One World Trade Center. Their renting auto was subsequently taken from the Jetport.
In the wake of 9/11, many U.S. air hose set about offering fewer voyages. This fostered the air hose' switch from mainline jet plane to little regional jet plane or turbo-propeller planes at PWM. In late 2002, American Eagle halt winging to the Jetport. On September 1, 2005, Delta Air Lines stopped mainline service to PWM. Despite the air hose's strong history at Portland, assisting the Jetport in the past with aircraft as big as the Boeing 757, Boeing 727, all voyages from that date on were position to be functioned by Delta Connection on Canadair Regional Jets.
Some service set about to return as the airline industry returned to wellness in 2005 and 2006. The 1st intensify came with the unveiling of the low cost bearer Independence Air in 2005. On May one of 2005, Independence added a daily voyage to Washington Dulles on an Airbus A319, doing them the 1st bearer to wing an Airbus out of Portland. Portland was 1 of few market place that Independence Air systematically assisted with its bigger A319 jet plane, and at the clip of their failure Portland was bruited to be 1 of their few profitable destinations. FedEx Express also set about using an Airbus A310 widebody jet plane on its freight voyages to Memphis after that yr. On July 1, 2005, Portland had its 1st transatlantic reaching. The voyage was Primaris Airlines voyage three from Shannon, Ireland. The voyage was on a Boeing 757-200 with the enrollment N740PA.
After Independence Air travel break, Portland was go forth without a low-cost bearer, doing menus to arise, and rider figure to again worsen. Capitalizing on the under assisted marketplace, JetBlue Airways set about service to Portland on May 23, 2006, with 4 daily voyages to New York/JFK aboard Airbus A320 jet plane. This do them the 2nd biggest air bearer at the Jetport (in terms of available sits) almost overnight. This addition of service has animated what is known as the Southwest Effect, where the addition of a large figure of low cost sits in a market squeezes down the monetary value of contending tickets.
On June 7, 2007, AirTran Airways set about seasonal service to Baltimore/Washington Airport, as good as to Orlando, Florida. This constituted AirTran as the 2nd low cost bearer in Portland, contending with JetBlue. This is the 1st clip that Portland has had direct service to a Florida destination, a market place that has been the focal point of much conjecture in past yr. Flights are functioned on Boeing 717 and Boeing 737 jet plane, some of the biggest aircraft scheduled to the Jetport now. At the same clip of AirTran's reaching, JetBlue denoted that it shall be adding a 5th voyage of their own to New York, further increasing the figure of available low cost sits. Later, on September 26, 2007 JetBlue also denoted a daily direct voyage to Orlando, using its Embraer 190 equipment, start out in January of that yr. The yr 2007 was a track record high for Portland, the added service posted a 17% increase in riders from the yr before.
In 2008, Delta Air Lines returned mainline service to Portland, with a daily voyage to Atlanta on a McDonnell Douglas MD-88 jet plane. At the same clip, a regional start up, New England Air Transport (NEAT) set about intra-state air service, winging 3 clips weekly to Aroostook County with a Piper Navajo Chieftain. This was the 1st intra-state service offered out of Portland in more than a decennium. With these additions, 2008 also saw a figure of losses of service, with air traffic in an aggregative worsen as the airline industry scaled dorsum with economical worsen. At the oncoming of 2009, the Jetport saw the return of international service. Starlink Aviation denoted the start out of service between Portland and Halifax, Nova Scotia and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to set about on four February of that yr.
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