Albuquerque International Sunport
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Albuquerque International Sunport (IATA: ABQ, ICAO: KABQ) is a public airport located 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Albuquerque, in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The airport's IATA airport code ABQ is also Amtrak's 3-letter code for its rail station.
The airport has no runways itself and instead shares the main runway of Kirtland Air Force Base of the United States Air Force. It is not unusual to see military aircraft taking off within close sight of the terminal.
ABQ's terminal, which was expanded to its present size in the late 1980s and again in 1996, encompasses 574,000 sq. ft. of space and has 23 gates in two concourses.
Albuquerque International Sunport handled 6,471,205 passengers in 2005. The count of passengers at the Sunport has seen a average per year increase of 2% over the last 15 years.
Concourses
The airport has one passenger terminal that is designed in the Spanish-Pueblo style of architecture which houses 3 concourses with a concourse for commuter airline gates C1-C7.
A Concourse
Terminal Map
- Northwest Airlines (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
- Southwest Airlines (Amarillo, Baltimore/Washington, Chicago-Midway, Dallas-Love, El Paso, Houston-Hobby, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Oakland, Orlando, Phoenix, Portland (OR), St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Seattle/Tacoma, Tampa, Tucson)
- United Airlines (Denver, Washington-Dulles)
- United Express operated by SkyWest (Chicago-O'Hare, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco)
- United Express operated by Shuttle America (Chicago-O'Hare, Denver)
B Concourse
Terminal Map
- American Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth)
- Continental Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental, Newark [seasonal])
- Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Cleveland [seasonal], Houston-Intercontinental)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky)
- Delta Connection operated by SkyWest (Salt Lake City)
- Frontier Airlines (Denver)
- Frontier JetExpress operated by Horizon Air (Denver)
- US Airways
- US Airways operated by America West Airlines (Las Vegas, Phoenix)
Concourse C: Commuter Airlines
- Great Lakes Airlines (Clovis, Silver City)
- Mesa Airlines
- Mesa Airlines operated by Air Midwest (Carlsbad, Colorado Springs, Farmington, Roswell)
Cargo
The airport's freight center moved 166,342,643 pounds of cargo in 2005
Cargo Airlines
Gates
A Concourse
- A1-United Airlines
- A2-Vacant
- A3-United Airlines
- A4-Vacant
- A5-Southwest Airlines
- A6-Southwest Airlines
- A7-Southwest Airlines
- A8-Southwest Airlines
- A9-Southwest Airlines
- A10-Northwest Airlines
- A11-Southwest Airlines
- A12-Northwest Airlines
- A13-JetBlue(2009)
B Concourse
- B1-American Airlines
- B2-Vacant
- B3-American Airlines
- B4-US Airways/America West
- B5-Continental Airlines
- B6-Frontier Airlines
- B7-Vacant
- B8-Delta Air Lines
- B9-Vacant
- B10-Delta Air Lines
Accidents at ABQ
- On February 19, 1955, TWA Flight 260, a Martin 4-0-4, crashed into the Sandia Mountains shortly after takeoff. All 16 people on board the flight perished.
- On November 3, 1973, National Airlines Flight 27, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, suffered a catastrophic engine failure while in-flight. Shrapnel from the engine struck the fuselage and caused an explosive decompression of the aircraft. One person was sucked out of the cabin. The plane was able to make an emergency landing at ABQ.
External links
- Albuquerque International Sunport (official site)
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KABQ
- ASN accident history for ABQ
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for KABQ
- FAA current ABQ delay information