Tampa International Airport

Tampa International Airport
USGS aerial photo - 10 May 2002
IATA: TPA ICAO: KTPA FAA LID: TPA Tampa International Airport Location of TPA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Hillsborough County Aviation Authority
Serves	Tampa, Florida
Elevation AMSL	26 ft / 8 m
Coordinates	27°58′32″N 082°32′0″W / 27.97556°N 82.53333°W / 27.97556; -82.53333
Website	www.TampaAirport.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 10/28 6,999 2,133 Asphalt/Concrete 19L/1R 8,300 2,530 Asphalt/Concrete 19R/1L 11,002 3,353 Concrete
Helipads
Number Length Surface ft m H1 100 30 Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Total Passengers 16,645,765 Aircraft operations 279,183 (2008) Based aircraft 90 (2008)
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Tampa International Airport (IATA: TPA, ICAO: KTPA, FAA LID: TPA) is a major airport to the west of Tampa. It is in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. This airport is owned by Hillsborough County Aviation Authority.^[1] It serves the Tampa Bay Area. Many good things have been said about the airport's architecture and Landside/Airside design. It has a central terminal ("landside") connected by people movers to gates that are not at the terminal ("airsides"). It was first designed in the late 1960s. The airport was known as Drew Field Municipal Airport until 1952.^[2]

Tampa International Airport is a hub for Silver Airways. Southwest Airlines has a focus city at the Tampa International Airport. It used to be the main aircraft and maintenance site for World Airways and North American Airlines.^[3] Southwest Airlines carries the largest amount of TPA passengers. Southwest has over 90 flights per day, when it is most busy.^[4] The airport presently has 71 non-stop destinations. These include international service to Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and to destinations throughout the Caribbean. The airport had 18,815,452 passengers in 2015. It is the 31st busiest airport by passengers moved in North America. ^[5]

The following airlines serve Tampa International Airport:^[6]

• Air Canada
• Alaska Airlines
• American Airlines
• British Airways
• Cayman Airways
• Copa Airlines
• Delta Air Lines
• Eastern Air Lines
• Edelweiss Air
• Frontier Airlines
• JetBlue Airways
• Lufthansa
• Silver Airways
• Southwest Airlines (focus City)
• Spirit Airlines
• Sun Country Airlines
• Swift Air
• United Airlines
• WestJet

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  FAA diagram of Tampa International Airport.
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  Drew Field in 1948.
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  A Northwest Airlines Boeing 757 at Tampa in 1998. Northwest stopped flying in 2010.
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  Three planes parked at the terminal in 2014.

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