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Long Island MacArthur Airport (also known as Islip Airport) is a public airport on Long Island, in Ronkonkoma, Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York. Shuttle buses connect the airport to the Ronkonkoma Railroad Station. Long Island MacArthur Airport (LIMA) covers 1,311 acres (531 ha) and has four runways and two helipads.〔 The Town owns and operates the airport, which serves about two million commercial passengers a year, as well as general aviation. Located between Montauk Point to the east and Manhattan to the west, MacArthur Airport serves the three million residents of Nassau and Suffolk counties and travelers who want an alternative to the congestion at JFK and LaGuardia airports – both in Queens.〔Newsday, January 10, 2010, "The Little Airport That Could"〕 The FAA designated LIMA an Official Metro Airport in early 2011,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About MacAuthur Airport )〕 meaning it is now grouped with LaGuardia, JFK and Newark in travel and informational searches for New York airports, providing better exposure to the traveling public. MacArthur Airport, which does not share the congested air space of the city-centric airports, has an exceptional record of on-time performance. During 2009 83.6% of flights arrived on time and 85.6% of flights departed on time.〔Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics〕 During 2007 the airport served more than 2.3 million commercial passengers.〔LIMA Administrative Records〕 In 2007 the airport had 182,142 aircraft operations, an average of 499 per day; 80 percent general aviation; 15 percent scheduled commercial; five percent air taxi and about one percent military. 243 aircraft are based at the airport: 63% single-engine; 10% multi-engine; 19% jet aircraft; seven percent helicopters; and less than one percent military.〔 The Town-owned Foreign Trade Zone is next to airport property. == History == In April 1942, four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Town of Islip contracted with the federal government to build an airfield on Town-owned land for military use.〔Suffolk County News Archive, April 3, 1942〕 Within months the Civil Aeronautics Administration – predecessor to today's Federal Aviation Administration – funded construction of three paved runways. Originally named Islip Airport, at the suggestion of Charles H. Duryea, a local elected official, the airport was renamed MacArthur Airport, after General Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army.〔 In 1944 Lockheed Aircraft Corporation built the first hangar at the airport. Five years later the Town built the airport's first terminal building preparing for airline flights. Through the 1950s the Sperry Corporation conducted aerospace research at the airport. In 1960 Allegheny Airlines (AL) was the first airline with scheduled flights from the field to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington. The March 1961 Official Airline Guide shows five weekday Convair departures: a nonstop to Washington National, one to Baltimore, and three flights making two or three stops to Boston. The General Douglas MacArthur Terminal was completed in 1966; in 1967 Mohawk started two FH227s a day to Bridgeport and Albany and beyond (one continued to Toronto). In 1971 American Airlines began non-stop 727s to Chicago. Several airlines have ended service over the years, but between 1999 and 2009 passenger traffic grew with the airport now serving about two million passengers a year on two carriers: Southwest Airlines and US Airways Express. Continental Express and Continental Connection had non-stops to Albany and to Cleveland but ended them in 2005. Spirit Airlines scheduled flights to several Florida cities and Detroit, before moving to LaGuardia Airport in 2001; in May 2008 the airline resumed service to Fort Lauderdale from MacArthur only to drop it soon after.〔(Spirit Air considering ISP service to FLL )〕〔(Spirit Airlines Attacks Record Fuel Prices )〕 Delta Express, which had nonstops to Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, dropped MacArthur Airport in 2003 after a decline in traffic. Delta Connection to Atlanta ended on May 1, 2008 following a mid-April announcement that Delta and Northwest Airlines were planning to merge – a move that led to changes for the merged airline. As of January 2014 Southwest Airlines has year-round non-stops to Baltimore, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, and West Palm Beach, and seasonal service to Fort Myers. Allegiant Air has 2 seasonal weekly flights to Fort Myers/Punta Gorda, FL. PenAir began operating 2 daily nonstop flights to Boston in July 2013, but stopped flying to MacArthur a year later. The only legacy carrier at the airport is American Airlines to Philadelphia. Service to Washington-National ended on July 2, 2014 after the merger between US Airways and American Airlines. The newly merged airline had to cut service to 17 cities from Washington-National because of an antitrust lawsuit preventing the airline from monopolizing slots at National Airport. American Airlines then reapplied for nonstop service between MacArthur Airport and Washington-National because two slots opened up at the airport. However, it was confirmed in early 2015 that the airline lost the bid for these two slots.〔http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/American-Airlines-loses-bid-to-restore-6001385.php〕 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「Long Island MacArthur Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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