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Southwest Florida International Airport is a county-owned airport in the South Fort Myers region of unincorporated Lee County, Florida. The airport's market is Southwest Florida: Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Estero, Sanibel Island, Marco Island, Captiva Island, Bonita Springs and Naples. The airport sits on 14,000 acres of land just southeast of Fort Myers, making it the third-largest airport in the United States in terms of land size (after Denver and Dallas/Fort Worth). Though, 6,000 acres of the airports land includes swamp land that has been set aside for environmental mitigation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gulfshorelife.com/January-2014/Southwest-Florida-Transportation-Are-We-There-Yet/ )〕 The airport code RSW means "Regional South-West" (for Southwest Florida Regional Airport). In 1993 the Lee County Port Authority renamed it Southwest Florida International Airport. In 2014 passengers numbered 7,970,493. The airport is the second busiest single-runway airport in the United States after San Diego International Airport. It is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry. LeeTran bus No. 50 serves the airport. ==History== RSW was conceived in 1973 when it was clear that the existing airport in Fort Myers, Page Field, would be too small. The government of Lee County selected a site near Interstate 75, then under construction. Groundbreaking was in 1980, and Southwest Florida Regional Airport opened on schedule, May 14, 1983, with a single 8400-ft runway. Delta Air Lines operated the first flight. The original terminal was located on the north side of the runway at the end of Chamberlin Parkway. The airport was renamed Southwest Florida International Airport in 1993, though it had hosted international flights since 1984 and U.S. Customs since 1987, mainly for flights to Germany. The name change coincided with the completion of a 55,000 square foot Federal Inspection facility annexed to the original terminal's Concourse A.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.flylcpa.com/uploads/pagesfiles/511.pdf )〕 The runway was also lengthened to 12,000 ft (3,658 m) at the same time to better accommodate international service (making it the fourth-longest runway in Florida).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.freightmovesflorida.com/docs/default-source/default-document-library/634665599509832500-southwest_florida_international_airport_12_22_11_2_.pdf?sfvrsn=0 )〕 The airport has hosted Boeing 747s (including Air Force One), but as of 2009 the largest aircraft scheduled to RSW are the Airbus A330-200s on Air Berlin non-stop flights to Düsseldorf and seasonally the Boeing 767-300s operated by Delta Air Lines non-stop from Minneapolis/St. Paul . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Southwest Florida International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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