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Indianapolis International Airport is a public airport seven miles (11 km) southwest of downtown Indianapolis, in Marion County, Indiana, United States.〔 It is owned and operated by the Indianapolis Airport Authority. The airport is the largest in Indiana, occupying about in Wayne and Decatur townships of Marion County, all within the city of Indianapolis. It is near interstate highways I-65, I-69, I-70 and I-74, all of which connect to the city's I-465 beltway. The passenger terminal was the first designed and built in the United States after the September 11, 2001, attacks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Terminal at Indianapolis International Airport Now Boarding )〕 The airport is also home to a FedEx Express hub, the company's second-largest after the SuperHub at Memphis International Airport. Opened in 1988, the hub has been expanded three times.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Latest Global News )〕 ==History== Indianapolis Municipal Airport opened in 1931. In 1944, it was renamed Weir-Cook Municipal Airport, after US Army Air Forces Col. Harvey Weir-Cook of Wilkinson, Indiana, who became a flying ace during World War I with seven victories and who died flying a P-39 over New Caledonia in World War II. Since 1962, the airport has been owned and operated by the Indianapolis Airport Authority (IAA), an eight-member board with members appointed by the Mayor of Indianapolis and other officials from Marion, Hendricks and Hamilton counties in central Indiana. In 1976, the board renamed the airport Indianapolis International Airport. In 2008, the board named the new main passenger facility the Col. H. Weir Cook Terminal and the new entrance road Col. H. Weir Cook Memorial Drive. From 1957 to 2008, the passenger terminal was on the east side of the airfield off High School Road. This now-closed facility was renovated and expanded many times, notably in 1968 (Concourses A & B), 1972 (Concourse D) and 1987 (Concourse C and the attached Parking Garage). This complex, along with the International Arrivals Terminal (opened in 1976) on the north side of the airfield (off Pierson Drive), was replaced by the Col. H. Weir Cook Terminal on November 12, 2008. The April 1957 OAG shows 82 weekday departures: 24 Eastern, 22 TWA, 15 Delta, 11 American, 9 Lake Central and one Ozark. Eastern had a nonstop to Atlanta and one to Birmingham and TWA had two to La Guardia; no other nonstops reached beyond Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Louisville and Pittsburgh. (Westward nonstops didn't reach beyond St. Louis until 1967; TWA started a JFK-IND-LAX 707 that year.) The first jets were TWA 880s in 1961. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, USAir (later US Airways) had a secondary hub in Indianapolis with non-stop jets to the West Coast, East Coast and Florida and turboprop flights to cities around the Midwest. USAir peaked at 146 daily departures (including its prop affiliates), with 49% of all seats. USAir ended the hub in the late 1990s. In the late 1990s and early 2000s Indianapolis was a hub for then locally based ATA Airlines and its regional affiliate, Chicago Express/ATA Connection. After that airline entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in late 2004 operations at IND were cut, then eliminated in 2006. ATA's demise gave Northwest Airlines an opportunity to expand operations, making Indianapolis a focus city. (Northwest became a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines in late 2008.) In 1994, BAA was awarded a 10-year contract to manage the Indianapolis International Airport. The contract was extended three years but was later cut a year short at the request of the BAA. Private management ended on December 31, 2007 and control reverted to IAA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Indianapolis International Airport: Error )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home )〕 Also in 1994, United Airlines finished building Indianapolis Maintenance Center,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.indianapolisairport.com/files/contribute/07.16.09IMCFacts.pdf )〕 at a cost of $USD 600 million. United later moved their maintenance operations to its sole maintenance hub located at San Francisco International Airport. In 2009, Republic Airways announced it would retain their maintenance hub and headquarters in Indianapolis after acquiring the much larger Frontier Airlines in Denver. 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「Indianapolis International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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