Kansas City airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Kansas City Aviation Department | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Kansas City metropolitan area (Kansas City, Missouri / Kansas City, Kansas) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,026 ft / 312.7 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°17′51″N 94°42′50″W / 39.29750°N 94.71389°WCoordinates: 39°17′51″N 94°42′50″W / 39.29750°N 94.71389°W | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | FlyKCI.com | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Kansas City International Airport
Kansas City International Airport
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Source: KCI Traffic Statistics
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| Passengers | 11,041,750 |
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| Aircraft operations | 122,844 |
Kansas City International Airport (IATA: MCI, ICAO: KMCI, FAA LID: MCI) (originally Mid-Continent International Airport) is a public airport 15 miles (24 km) northwest of downtown Kansas City in Platte County, Missouri. In 2016, 11.04 million passengers used the airport.
Its largest carriers are Southwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines, both having many daily flights in Terminal B.
The airport has always been a civilian airport and has never had an Air National Guard unit assigned to it.
In 2009, the airport was reported as having the highest number of wildlife strikes of any airport in the US, based on take-offs and landings (57 per 100,000). FAA records showed 146 strikes in 2008 – up from 37 in 2000.
Kansas City Industrial Airport was built after the Great Flood of 1951 destroyed the facilities of both of Kansas City's hometown airlines Mid-Continent Airlines and TWA at Fairfax Airport across the Missouri River from the city's main Kansas City Municipal Airport (which was not as badly damaged). TWA's main overhaul base was a former B-25 bomber factory at Fairfax, although TWA commercial flights flew out of the main downtown airport.
Kansas City was planning to build an airport with room for 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runways and knew the downtown airport wouldn't do.
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