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Albuquerque International Sunport
Albuquerque International Sunport is a public airport 3 miles (5 km) southeast of downtown Albuquerque, in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States.〔 It is the largest commercial airport in the state, handling 4,871,901 passengers in 2014. The airport serves Albuquerque and Santa Fe (also served by Santa Fe Municipal Airport).
==History==
Albuquerque was originally served by two private airports. Oxnard Field was the first to open in 1928 followed by West Mesa Airport, also known as the TWA airport, in 1930. The first airlines to serve the airports were Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT), Western Air Express (WAE), and Mid Continent Air Express, all inaugurating service in 1929. At first the airlines operated from Oxnard Field (which was also deemed Albuquerque Airport) but moved to the West Mesa Airport for most of the 1930s decade. TAT and WAE merged in 1930 to form Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) and Mid Continent Air Express' service was replaced by Varney Speed Lines in 1934. Three years later Varney changed their name to become Continental Airlines. In 1935 it was suggested that the city build a new public airport using WPA money. Having secured US$520,500 in funding, Governor Clyde Tingley broke ground for the project on February 28, 1937. Albuquerque Municipal Airport opened in 1939 with two paved runways, a Pueblo Style terminal building designed by Ernest Blumenthal, and a massive hangar designed to accommodate the new Boeing 307 operated by TWA which became Trans World Airlines in 1946. Monarch and Arizona Airways both came to Albuquerque in the late 1940s then merged to become Frontier Airlines in 1950. The airport was renamed Albuquerque Sunport on April 17, 1963.
The April 1957 OAG shows 31 weekday departures: 13 on Continental Airlines, 12 on TWA and 6 on Frontier Airlines. Trans-Texas Airways (later changing to Texas International Airlines) came to Albuquerque in 1963 rounding out the first four carriers to serve the airport prior to the airline deregulation act of 1978.
The present terminal was designed by William E. Burk Jr. and built just east of the original terminal opening on November 12, 1965. At first the terminal had eight gates, four at the main building and another four at a small satellite building to the south connected by an underground tunnel. None of the gates had jetbridges. The terminal has since been expanded several times, first in 1971 when a west wing was added with a large gate able to handle new wide-body aircraft. TWA utilized this gate by introducing the Lockheed L-1011 to Albuquerque in 1974 with flights to Chicago. After airline deregulation was passed in 1978, a flood of new airlines came to ABQ and the west wing was expanded in 1980 with three more gates, all of which had jetbridges and received extensive use by TWA and many new carriers. Southwest Airlines started service on April 3, 1980 using the old gates 1 and 2 and installed three ground level jetbridges at these two gates. From 1987 through 1989 the terminal underwent a massive expansion and renovation which was designed by Phillip Jacobson and BPLW Associates.〔 The satellite gate building was replaced with two concourses, A and B, giving the Sunport 19 new gates, all with jetbridges. Concourse A was further expanded in 1996 with four additional gates and the new above ground connector link to the concourses was greatly expanded in the early 2000s to accommodate the need for additional security screening by the TSA after the events of 9/11/2001. The airport gained international status and was renamed the Albuquerque International Airport on September 27, 1971 and changed to the Albuquerque International Sunport in 1994. The old terminal of 1939 has been restored and houses offices of the Transportation Security Administration. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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