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The Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport is a public airport 18 miles northwest of Panama City,〔 in Bay County.〔 The airport is owned by the Panama City-Bay County Airport & Industrial District.〔 and is north of Panama City Beach, Florida, near West Bay. It replaced Panama City-Bay County International Airport (Fannin Field, PFN), which was in Panama City. The airport opened for commercial flights on May 23, 2010 and is the first international airport in the United States designed and built since the September 11 attacks. Though "international" was included in the airport's name, no one expects the airport to have scheduled international flights, due to the small population in the surrounding areas and the fact that the demand for visitation to Panama City is mostly Regional and/or National. The airport was to have been called Northwest Florida-Panama City International Airport, but the airlines asked the airport authority to change to a more regional name. == History == In the late 1990s the Panama City-Bay County Airport and Industrial District (Airport Authority) started looking for ways to increase the air service in the Panama City area. Proposed ideas included using the current airport property and extending the current short runways into St. Andrews Bay or into residential neighborhoods, relocation of the airport to a new site, or collocation with Tyndall AFB. With strong opposition to extending the runways into an environmentally sensitive bay or into neighborhoods, the airport authority began to search for relocation sites. The authority received tentative approval to relocate the airport to northwestern Bay County in 2001. In 2005–2007 the authority obtained the needed permits.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport )〕 The relocation of the airport was controversial in Bay County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 EDITORIAL: Airport: More bumps )〕 The county commission chose to proceed with building a new airport and closing down Fannin Field despite a majority of voters in a non-binding 2004 referendum voting against the plan. Some felt that the St. Joe Company, which owned the land the airport would be based on, would derive an unfair benefit at the taxpayer's expense. Suits were filed against the airport on environmental grounds but were not successful in halting its construction. Construction was completed in May 2010, however the planned crosswind runway was not built. This controversy continues as of January 2015. The airport's IATA code was originally supposed to be TFB, for "The Florida Beaches". However, this code was already taken by the Tifalmin Airport in Papua New Guinea.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.world-airport-codes.com/papua-new-guinea/tifalmin-9282.html )〕 By going through all available IATA codes, the group deciding the code came across ECP. After jokingly saying it could stand for "Everyone Can Party", the code stuck. 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「Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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