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Huntsville International Airport (Carl T. Jones Field) is a public airport ten miles southwest of downtown Huntsville, in Madison County, Alabama, United States.〔 The airport is a part of the Port of Huntsville (along with the International Intermodal Center and Jetplex Industrial Park), and serves the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. Opened October 1967 as the Huntsville Jetport, this was the third airport site for Huntsville.〔〔〔 Today it has 12 gates with restrooms, shops, restaurants, phones and large murals depicting aviation and space exploration scenes. There is a Four Points by Sheraton above the ticketing area/lobby, and adjacent to the terminal is a parking garage and to opposite sides are the control tower and a golf course. The airport's west runway, at , is the second longest in the southeastern United States, being just shorter than the longest runway at Miami International Airport. The airport's "Fly Huntsville" jingle encourages passengers to depart from Huntsville instead of driving to Birmingham or Nashville.〔 A hesitancy to fly from HSV may be understandable, as an August 2009 report by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics for the first quarter of 2009 revealed that Huntsville passengers paid, on average, the highest airfares in the United States.〔 The airport reported that commercial airline passenger traffic at Huntsville International increased 2.3 percent in January 2010 over the previous year.〔 This airport is in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which called it a ''primary commercial service'' airport.〔 Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 612,690 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,〔 572,767 in 2009 and 606,127 in 2010.〔 ==Airport facilities== Huntsville International Airport covers 6,000 acres (2,428 ha) at an elevation of 629 feet (192 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt runways: 18R/36L is 12,600 by 150 feet (3,840 x 46 m) and 18L/36R is 10,006 by 150 feet (3,050 x 46 m).〔 In the year ending October 31, 2010 the airport had 80,726 aircraft operations, average 221 per day: 34% military, 26% air taxi, 24% general aviation, and 16% scheduled commercial. 75 aircraft were then based at this airport: 77% single-engine, 20% multi-engine, and 3% jet.〔 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「Huntsville International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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