Fairbanks International Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | State of Alaska DOT&PF | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Fairbanks, Alaska | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 439 ft / 134 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 64°48′54″N 147°51′23″W / 64.81500°N 147.85639°WCoordinates: 64°48′54″N 147°51′23″W / 64.81500°N 147.85639°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www |
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| Aircraft operations | 119,898 |
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| Based aircraft | 541 |
Fairbanks International Airport (IATA: FAI, ICAO: PAFA, FAA LID: FAI) is a state-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Fairbanks, a city in the Fairbanks North Star Borough of the United States state of Alaska. Fairbanks is the smallest city in the United States with non-stop service to Europe, as Condor offers weekly flights to Frankfurt during the summer tourist season. In addition, Air North is another international airline with flights (to Canada) and Antonov Airlines offers cargo flights to South Korea.
The airport opened in 1951 and took over existing scheduled airline traffic to Fairbanks, which had previously used Ladd Army Airfield.Alaska Airlines used Fairbanks as its main hub in the 1950s, with service to Seattle and Portland as well as intrastate service to Anchorage, Nome and other destinations. By 1967, however, the airline shifted its Alaska hub to Anchorage; its Anchorage-Fairbanks service continues to this day. In the mid-1970s, following the development of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Alaska Airlines and Braniff International offered "interchange service" between Fairbanks and Houston via Anchorage, Seattle and Dallas. In 1982, following airline deregulation, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines began a similar interchange service using Boeing 727s.
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