Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (IATA: MSY , ICAO: KMSY , FAA LID: MSY ) is international airport under Airspace Class B in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. The city is owned by the city of New Orleans and 11 miles west of downtown New Orleans. The airport address is 900 Airline Drive in Kenner, Louisiana. A small portion of Runway 11/29 is in the unrelated St. Charles Parish. Armstrong International is a major commercial airport for the metropolitan areas of New Orleans and southeast Louisiana. The airport was formerly known as Moisant Field, and is also known as Louis Armstrong International Airport and New Orleans International Airport. MSY covers 1,500 acres (607 ha) of land.
The destinations for international passenger services scheduled today are Toronto-Pearson, Panama City, Cancun, Punta Cana, London-Heathrow, and Frankfurt.
With an average of 4.5 feet (1.4 m) above sea level, MSY is the second lowest international airport in the world, behind only Schiphol International Airport Amsterdam in the Netherlands, which is 11 feet (3.4 m) below the surface sea.. Before Hurricane Katrina, MSY served 9.7 million passengers per year, almost all of which were not connected. By 2016, the airline serves 11,139,421 passengers, an all-time record for airports and 4.4% more than in 2015. By 2017, the airport sets another all-time record, with 12,009,512 passengers handled.
MSY opened after World War II, replacing the older New Orleans Lakefront Airport (which stores airport code NEW and KNEW and now serves public flights) as the city's main airport. The name MSY was replaced in 2001 after Louis Armstrong, a renowned jazz musician from New Orleans.
In January 2016, the airport began to replace the current terminal by starting construction at a new terminal located on the north side of the airfield. The terminal is scheduled to have 35 gates, which can be expanded to 42 gates in the future.
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Histori
Plans for a new airport began in 1940, when evidence suggests that the older Shushan Airport (New Orleans Lakefront Airport) is too small.
The airport was originally called Moisant Field after the intrepid aviator John Moisant, who died in 1910 in a plane crash on a farm where the airport is now located. Its IATA code MSY comes from M oisant S tock Y ards, because Lakefront Airport maintains the "NEW" code. In World War II, land became the government air base. It returned to civilian control after the war and commercial services began at Moisant Field in May 1946.
On 19 September 1947 the airport was closed due to sinking under two feet of water in the wake of the Hurricane impact of 1947.
When commercial services began at Moisant Field in 1946, the terminal was a large and makeshift hangar building - a sharp contrast to airports in past cities. The new terminal complex, designed by Goldstein Parham & amp; Labouisse and Herbert A. Benson, George J. Riehl and built by J. A. Jones Company, debuted in 1959 near the end of Mayor of DeLesseps "Chep" Morrison. The core of this structure forms many of today's facilities. US Air Force Retired Major General Junius Wallace Jones served as airport director in the 1950s. During his tenure, the airport received many improvements.
The April 1957 Official Flights Guide (OAG) lists 74 business day departures: Delta Air Lines 26, Eastern Air Lines 25, National Airlines 11, Capital Airlines 5, Southern Airways 4, and Braniff International Airways 3. Pan American World Airways has six departures each - a week while TACA, a Central American airline, has four.
In the early 1970s, United, Texas International Airlines, Aviateca and SAHSA also operated at the airport. During the 1960s, Japan Airlines used New Orleans as a special multi-stop service stop between Tokyo and São Paulo in Brazil.
By the time the airport terminal building 1959 was opened, the name Moisant International Airport was being used for the New Orleans facility. In 1961, his name was changed to New Orleans International Airport . In July 2001, in honor of the 100th birthday of Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901), the name of the airport became Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport .
During Morrison's successor, Vic Schiro, a government-sponsored study on the possibility of relocating New Orleans International Airport to a new site, a contemporarily successful effort in Houston (George Bush Intercontinental Airport) and Dallas (Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport). This effort so far recommends a site in New Orleans East; a manmade island will be made south of I-10 and north of Route 90 US in the bay of Pontchartrain Lake. In the early 1970s it was decided that the current airport should be expanded instead, leading to the construction of an extended main terminaling area, the airport access road connecting the I-10 terminal, and Concourse A and B. The mayor of New Orleans, Sidney Barthelemy , who served from 1986 to 1994, later reintroduced the idea of ​​building a new international airport for the city, with consideration given to other sites in New Orleans East, as well as in Northshore on the outskirts of St Tammany Parish. Just months before Hurricane Katrina's storm, Mayor Ray Nagin again proposed a new airport for New Orleans, this time west in Montz, Louisiana. This initiative meets with the same fate as the 1960s era effort on building a new airport for New Orleans.
In the summer of 2001, in the centennial anniversary of Armstrong's birth, New Orleans's main airport was named Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.
Hurricane Katrina Post Hurricane Restoration
MSY reopened for commercial flights on September 13, 2005, with four flights operated by Delta Air Lines to Atlanta and Northwest Airlines flights to Memphis. Slowly, service from other operators began to continue, with limited services offered by Southwest Airlines, Continental Airlines, and American Airlines. Finally, all operators announce their return to MSY, with the exception of America West Airlines (which joins US Airways two weeks later) and the international operator TACA. In early 2006, Continental Airlines (since joining United Airlines) became the first airline to return to pre-Katrina flight frequency levels, and in September 2006, to pre-Katrina seat capacity.
All international services to MSY are suspended while FIS facilities are closed after Katrina. Facilities reopened for chartered flights arriving from London, Manchester, Bournemouth, and Nottingham, England - all bring incoming travelers to Mardi Gras and arranged to depart the cruise ship.
In May 2010, AirTran announced a new daily nonstop service to the hub in Milwaukee using the Boeing 717 twin jet aircraft, which then began on October 7, 2010. This route marked the city's first recent addition since 1998. AirTran was acquired by Southwest Airlines, which in turn began operating the route. In November 2010, United Airlines announced the resumption of daily nonstop services to San Francisco, the largest pre-Katrina domestic market that has yet to continue service to New Orleans. On July 16, 2012, Spirit Airlines announced a nonstop service from Dallas-Fort Worth to New Orleans, starting in January 2013. Spirit became the first fully new domestic airline, and the second new operator as a whole (after WestJet) announced service to MSY, 1998.
MSY served 9,785,394 passengers in 2014, surpassing for the first time in the post-Katrina era total passengers totaling 9,733,179 reached in 2004, the last full calendar year before the Katrina landings in August 2005. The number of newly booked passengers was set by the Airport in 2015. 10,673,301 passengers served, surpassing the previous record of 9.9 million passengers, set in 2000.
Incentives for airlines
On November 21, 2006, the New Orleans Aviation Board approved an air services initiative to promote service upgrades to Armstrong International:
- Aviation qualifies for a $ 0.75 credit per seat toward terminal usage charges for offices scheduled to exceed 85% of the pre-Katrina capacity level for a twelve month period.
- The airline is eligible to waive the cost of landing for twelve months after starting service to an airport that is not currently served from New Orleans.
On January 17, 2008, the municipal aviation council voted on a modified incentive program that waived the cost of landing for the first two airlines to fly non-stop to a city that is currently not served from the airport. Under the new rules, landing fees will be waived for two airlines flying to "underserved destination airports". The previous incentive is called service to "new destination airport".
The airport also continues its incentives to airlines that account for 85% of their pre-Katrina flight frequency.
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International services
In June 2018, Armstrong International has nonstop flights to Canada, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, the UK and Germany.
Vacation Express offers seasonal flights to CancÃÆ'ºn and Punta Cana operated by Swift Air. Delta Air Lines and United Airlines also offer seasonal weekend flights to CancÃÆ'ºn as well. Air Canada Express has been providing flights from Toronto-Pearson since October 2010.
The Aire Awards started a nonstop service to San Pedro Sula, Honduras in December 2016. British Airways and Condor Flugdienst each announced flight schedules to London and Frankfurt starting March 2017 and May 2017. British Airways has now started their new service and operates the Boeing 787 The Dreamliner plane was on a nonstop route to London Heathrow Airport, while Condor flew the uninterrupted Boeing 767-300ER to Frankfurt.
National Airlines offered flights to Amsterdam and Frankfurt in the late 1970s; the route was terminated immediately after Pan Am acquired National in 1980. In 1981-82, British Airways had previously used Armstrong International as a route stop between London Gatwick and Mexico City.
Terminal and concourses
Louis Armstrong International has two terminals, East and West, connected by a central ticket gang. Attached are four concourses, A, B, C and D. The vaulted arrival lounge at the head of Concourse C and adjacent, the western half of the ticket ticket is the remaining part of the 1959 complex airport terminal.
Concourse A
Concourse A opened in 1974 and has 6 Gates: A1, A3, A5, A6, A7, A8. Recently home to Northwest Airlines (since joining Delta Air Lines) and US Airways (since joining American Airlines), the concourse is closed until further notice.
Concourse B
Concourse B opened in 1974 and has 11 Gates: B1, B2, B4, B5, B7-B12, B15. Southwest Airlines (Gates B2, B4, B5, B7, B8, B9, B15). The Gate Space B1 has been taken over by TSA for passenger filtering, and the gate is no longer in use. Gates B10, B11, and B12 are currently empty.
Concourse C
Except for pre-free customs duty tickets, all international non-stop arrivals are handled by Concourse C. Concourse also contains public and abundant gates, available for sparse services and charter flights as well.
Concourse C opened on March 18, 1992 and was renovated in 2007, according to a design by Manning Architects, after being damaged in a tornado in the previous February.
Concourse D
The newest Concourse, D, opened on December 23, 1996 and has Delta Air Lines Sky Club between D2 and D4 gates, the only remaining flight club in Armstrong. Originally equipped with only six gates, Concourse D received an additional six rotunda gates, designed by Sizeler Thompson Brown, and inaugurated in 2011. The rotunda includes the D7-12 gates
Concourse D has 12 Gates operations: D1 - D12. Delta Air Lines (United States Gates D1, D3, D5, D7, D9, D11), and Air Canada Express (Gate D7) operate from Concourse D.
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
Cargo
Statistics
Annual traffic
Annual passenger traffic (planned deplaned) in MSY, 2001 to 2017
Top domestic destinations
Accidents and incidents
- On 16 November 1959 National Flight Flight 967, a Douglas DC-7 that flew from Tampa to New Orleans crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. All 42 passengers and crew were killed.
- Eastern Air Lines Flight 304 operated with Douglas DC-8 flight from New Orleans International Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport fell on February 25, 1964 nine minutes after take-off. All 51 passengers and 7 crew members were killed.
- On March 20, 1969, Douglas DC-3 N142D, hired from Avion Airways for private charter, crashed on landing, killing 16 of 27 passengers and crew members on board. The aircraft operates non-scheduled domestic passenger flights from Memphis International Airport, Tennessee.
- On July 9, 1982, Flight Pan Am 759, traveling from Miami to Las Vegas, departs from New Orleans International. The Boeing 727-200 jet aircraft took off from the east-west runway (Runway 10/28) traveled east but never reached a height of more than 150 feet (46 m). The plane covered 4,610 feet (1405 m) beyond the end of Platform 10, crashed into trees along the road, to crashing into the neighborhood. A total of 153 people were killed (all 145 on board and 8 on the ground). The accident, at the time, was the second deadliest civilian aviation disaster in US history. The National Transportation Safety Council determines the possible cause of a plane meeting with microburst induced wind shear during takeoff. This atmospheric condition creates downdraft and decreases the headwind forcing the plane down. Modern wind shear detectors that protect flights from such conditions are now on planes and in most commercial airports, including Armstrong International.
- On May 24, 1988, the TACA 110 Flight was forced to slide without electricity and make an emergency landing on a levee east of New Orleans International Airport after a fire on both Boeing 737-300 engines in a severe storm.. There were no fatalities and the plane was repaired and returned to service.
- On March 21, 2015, the sixty-three-year-old Richard White walked to the airport armed with machetes and Molotov cocktails and began attacking TSA agents. He was later shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff Jefferson Parish.
Hurricane Katrina
The airport was closed for commercial air traffic on August 28, 2005, shortly before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, and it remained closed as floods affected the city. The Associated Press reported on August 31 that MSY would receive a humanitarian flight, and that the airport "has no significant airfield damage and has no puddle in the area of ​​aircraft movement," although the airport did, as the article says, "[sustain] damage to roofs, hangars and fences. "In early September, the airport opened only for military aircraft and humanitarian flights, and serves as a staging center for refugees. The airport reopened for commercial flights on 13 September 2005.
tornado February 2006
Around 2:30 am EST in the morning of February 2, 2006, a tornado landed on MSY land. Tornado damage is significant but mainly limited to Concourse C, where United, AirTran Airways, and international arrivals are based. Much of the temporary repairs coming from Hurricane Katrina failed, including a one-stop patch, forcing a concourse-based carrier to move operations to an empty gate. Jetways and other ground equipment also suffered damage. The damage was confirmed by the National Weather Service as caused by the rated tornado F1. By the end of the year, tornado-related damage has been fixed.
Ground Transport
Bus
The bus service between the airport and downtown New Orleans is provided by New Orleans Regional Transit Authority Airport Express Route 202 and Jefferson Transit E-2 bus.
Hotel shuttle
Airport Shuttle has services to most hotels and hostels at the Central Business District in New Orleans for $ 20 per person (one way) and $ 38 per person (round-trip).
Future plans
On December 21, 2015, the New Orleans Aviation Council, together with the New Orleans Mayor and City Council, approved a plan to build a new $ 598 million terminal building on the north side of the airport property with two concourse and 30 gates. Construction began in January 2016, with Hunt-Gibbs-Boh-Metro listed as a risky contractor. The terminal is scheduled to be completed in October 2018, five months behind the completion date targeted in May 2018, which will be just in time for the 300th anniversary of New Orleans.
Due to faster-than-expected growth at the airport, in March 2017, the New Orleans Aviation Agency chose to add an estimated $ 178 million expansion to the new terminal complex resulting in total construction costs of $ 993 million, adding a third concourse and increasing the number of gates to 35 With an additional extension, the anticipated opening date has been moved to February 2019 so that the entire complex can be opened at once.
There will be a central security checkpoint with all the new shops and restaurants behind the security checkpoint, including a number of restaurants run by local chefs. A new garage with 2,190 parking spaces is also planned, along with a newly funded private airport hotel. Airlines flying from MSY also, at their expense, funded the construction of a $ 39 million fuel system.
The new four-lane access road to the airport will lead to I-10 via Loyola Drive. The plan calls for destroying the A, B and C concourses of the existing southern terminal complex, while repurposing concourse D for charter services and administrative offices. The airport currently has 34 gates but uses only 30 gates; the new terminal is designed for 35 gates, with the option to expand to 42.
See also
- Louisiana World War II Army Field
- Terry Landry, state representative and former director of airport security
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force History Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
External links
- Louis Armstrong International Airport New Orleans, the official site
- An index that is archived in the Wayback Machine. (hosted on Greater New Orleans Free Net, GNOFN, Inc.)
- FAA Airport diagram for MSY Ã, (PDF) , effective June 21, 2018
- FAA Terminal Procedure for MSY, valid June 21, 2018
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KMSY
- ASN crash history for MSY
- FlightAware airport information and direct flight trackers
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical graph for KMSY
- Current MSY FAA delays information
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