Pittsburgh International Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Pittsburgh International Airport.
IATA: PIT – ICAO: KPIT – FAALID: PIT– WMO: 9. Summary. Airport type. Public / Military. Owner. Allegheny County. Operator. Allegheny County Airport Authority.
Serves. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Location. Findlay/Moon. Focus city for. Elevation AMSL1,2.
Coordinates. 40. °2. N0. 80. °1. 3′5. W / 4. 0. 4. °N 8. 0. 2. 32. 78. °W / 4. 0. 4. Website. Fly. Pittsburgh.
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I- 3. 76 and the northern (signed as western) terminus of PA Turnpike 5. Future I- 5. 76). Overview[edit]The airport is encircled by I- 3. I- 3. 76- B which is the main access for Airport Cargo and Servicing as well as other flight industries. It is owned by Allegheny County and operated by the Allegheny County Airport Authority which also operates the Allegheny County Airport. PIT is primarily a passenger airport serving the Pittsburgh metropolitan area with 1.
It also is the home of Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station, a combined facility of the Air Force Reserve Command and the Air National Guard, providing aerial refueling, air mobility and tactical airlift support to the U. S. Air Force and other U.
S. Department of Defense activities. Finally, the airport also has an air cargo facility and supports general aviation operations. Airside Terminal, with the Alexander Calder mobile Pittsburgh on display in center.
PIT is the second busiest passenger airport in Pennsylvania and 4. United States, serving 8,0.
The airport has the longest runways of a commercial airport in Pennsylvania at 1. Until 2. 00. 4, US Airways' largest hub was at PIT. In 2. 01. 0, the airline remained PIT's largest carrier (handling 2. On October 1. 7, 2.
US Airways officially merged with American Airlines to become the world's largest airline. The new American Airlines currently uses fifteen gates, more than any other airline at PIT. The airport has flights to Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, and Europe. Nonstop transatlantic flights resumed on June 3, 2.
Delta Air Lines began flights to Paris.[9] The new service operates 5 days a week and was made possible by Delta's successful joint- venture with Air France.[1. Other international destinations include Toronto, Canada, and seasonal service to Mexico (Cancun), the Bahamas (Nassau), and the Dominican Republic (Punta Cana). PIT occupies more than 1. Denver International Airport, Dallas- Fort Worth International Airport and Orlando International Airport.[1.
OAG Worldwide listed PIT on its short list of the world's best airports for four consecutive years. The market research leader, JD Power and Associates named PIT among the top five airports in its two most recent customer satisfaction surveys.
Conde Nast Traveler's Magazine named PIT the best in the United States[1. People's Choice Award. In 2. 01. 1 Conde Nast Traveler ranked the facility the 7th best for business travelers.[1. History[edit]Early years[edit]Until the beginning of World War II Moon Township, Pennsylvania was mostly a rural agricultural area. It was too far from downtown Pittsburgh to be the "suburb" that it is today, although it was served solely by Pittsburgh- based state and federal services and media.
In the early 1. 92. John A. Bell of Carnegie purchased a number of small farms in Moon and established a commercial dairy farm on his 1,9. He was bought out by Mr.
Mrs. E. E. Rieck and C. F. Nettrour, owners of the established "Rieck's" Dairy, who doubled the number of cattle at the farm. Circa 1. 94. 0 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) decided the Pittsburgh area needed a military airport to defend the industrial wealth of the area and to provide a training base and stop- over facility. The agricultural expanses of Moon Township were attractive to airport planners in the city. The Civil Aeronautics Administration proposed $2.
County for a $6 million field in August 1. The County bought the Bell Farm and federal agencies began construction of the runways on April 2. In 1. 94. 4 Allegheny County officials proposed to expand the military airport with the addition of a commercial passenger terminal to relieve the Allegheny County Airport, which was built in 1. Ground was broken on the new passenger terminal on July 1. The new terminal would eventually cost $3. Pittsburgh- area companies. The new airport, christened as Greater Pittsburgh Airport (renamed Greater Pittsburgh International Airport in 1.
International Arrivals Building) opened on May 3. The first flight was on June 3, 1. In its full year of operation in 1. Greater Pitt" was then considered modern and spacious. The airport terminal was the largest in the United States, second only to Idlewild Airport's (now JFK Airport) in New York when it was completed five years later.[1. The airport's capacity is one of its most valuable assets.
The airport was designed by a local architect named Joseph W. Hoover. One of the features of his style is the use of simple, exposed concrete, steel, and glass materials.
The terminal building was constructed in "stepped" levels: the first floor extended farther than the second, the second floor extended farther than the third, etc. Such a design meant that the uncovered roof of the lower level could be an observation deck.
In addition to the observation decks, the rounded "Horizon Room" was on the fourth floor with a commanding view of the airport. The interior of the terminal building was in the International Style, as was the exterior.
One of the memorable features of the lobby was the large compass laid in the floor with the green and yellow- orange terrazzo. A mobile by Alexander Calder was another decorative feature of the lobby. The mobile currently hangs in the center core of the new airside terminal, and a re- creation of the compass was installed in the new terminal at an exhibit dedicated to old "Greater Pitt."Growth of a major airport[edit]The first five airlines of the Greater Pittsburgh Airport were TWA, Capital Airlines (later part of United), Northwest, All American (later Allegheny Airlines, then USAir, and finally US Airways), and Eastern Airlines. The April 1. 95. 7 Airline Guide shows 5. Capital, 5. 4 TWA, 1. Allegheny, 8 United, 7 Eastern, 4 Northwest, 3 American and 2 Lake Central. Eastern had nonstops to Miami, but westward nonstops didn't reach beyond St Louis— though TWA had an overnight Lockheed 1.
G Super Constellation nonstop from Los Angeles ("Berths Available"). The first jets were TWA 7. LAX- ORD- PIT and back in summer 1. The 1. 95. 6 diagram shows runway 1. The longest runway was still 7. L was added by 1. In 1. 95. 9 the east dock was added to the terminal, and on July 2.
TWA started Boeing 7. On July 1, 1. 96. Ground was broken for the International Wing, west of the original terminal building, on July 8, 1. It opened in 1. 97. Nordair 7. 37s YUL- YHM- PIT) began in 1. Greater Pittsburgh Airport circa 1. From the 1. 96. 0s to about 1.
Trans World Airlines had a small hub at Pittsburgh. It began direct transatlantic flights in May 1. London Heathrow via PHL and nonstop to Gatwick. Neither lasted long; the next transatlantic nonstop may have been USAir's 7. Frankfurt about 1. In 1. 98. 5 the first transatlantic flight on a foreign airline came to Pittsburgh: British Airways.
Boeing 7. 47- 2. 00s. The initial route was Pittsburgh to London- Heathrow via Washington, D. C. The stop was later changed to Philadelphia. Later, British Airways moved the non- stop flight to London- Gatwick, with a change to London- Heathrow again with a stop in Montreal during the winter.
The airline ended service at Pittsburgh on October 3. In 2. 00. 0, US Airways picked up the route to London- Gatwick but canceled it in 2.
In 1. 97. 2 rotundas were added to the end of each dock to allow more gates. In the later 1. 97. In 1. 98. 0 the South East Dock was opened.
Even with these expansions, the terminal was too small. In 1. 98. 7, with the financial backing of USAir (then the dominant carrier in Pittsburgh), work commenced on a billion dollar expansion. On October 1, 1. 99. The old terminal remained standing until 1. The new terminal had numerous innovative features, including an Air.
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The new Landside/Airside design construction eliminated the need for connecting passengers to go through security again. The Airside Terminal at Pittsburgh International, which was designed by Tasso Katselas Associates, Inc.,[2. Decline of US Airways[edit]The May 1. USAir nonstops from PIT to 9. USAir Express. By the late 1. USAir (now American Airlines) concentrating on expanding at Philadelphia and Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. In 1. 99. 7 the airport handled almost 2.
Tough economic conditions for airlines at the start of the 2. September 1. 1 attacks, and high operating costs at the airport put the US Airways hub in Pittsburgh at a serious disadvantage.
By 2. 00. 3, US Airways reported to be running a $4. Pittsburgh[2. 3] while paying roughly 8. After failed negotiations to lower landing fees and debt obligation, the airline announced in 2. Pittsburgh, shifting operations to Charlotte and Philadelphia.[2. By the end of 2. 00.
All service to Europe had ceased to operate. A year later, the airline had only about 1. Pittsburgh, most being domestic flights.[2. Unrelenting flight and job cuts continued through the decade, as well as closure of Concourse E on the Landside Terminal and Concourse A on the Airside Terminal.