St. Pete -- Clearwater International airport - wikipedia St. Pete -- Clearwater International airport St. Pete -- Clearwater International Airport USGS 1998 orthophoto IATA : PIE ICAO : KPIE FAA LID : PIE Summary Airport type Public Owner County of Pinellas Serves Tampa Bay Area Location Pinellas County Focus city for Allegiant Air Elevation AMSL 11 ft / 3 m Coordinates 27 ° 54 ′ 36 '' N 082 ° 41 ′ 15 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 27.91000 ° N 82.68750 ° W ﻿ / 27.91000 ; - 82.68750 Coordinates : 27 ° 54 ′ 36 '' N 082 ° 41 ′ 15 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 27.91000 ° N 82.68750 ° W ﻿ / 27.91000 ; - 82.68750 Website www.Fly2PIE.com Map PIE PIE Show map of Florida Show map of the US Show all Location of airport in Florida / United States Runways Direction Length Surface ft m 18 / 36 9,730 2,966 Asphalt 4 / 22 5,903 1,799 Asphalt Statistics Aircraft operations ( 2017 ) 113,096 Based aircraft ( 2017 ) 259 Departing Passengers ( 12 months ending July 2017 ) 965,000 Cargo tonnage ( 12 months ending July 2017 ) 42,500 Sources : FAA, Airport website St. Pete -- Clearwater International Airport ( IATA : PIE, ICAO : KPIE, FAA LID : PIE ) is a public / military airport in Pinellas County, Florida serving the Tampa Bay Area. It is nine miles north of downtown St. Petersburg, seven miles southeast of Clearwater, and seventeen miles southwest of Tampa. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017 -- 2021, in which it is categorized as a small - hub primary commercial service facility. In 2014 it showed double - digit growth and handled more than one million passengers, setting a record. Most scheduled airline traffic in the Tampa Bay Area uses Tampa International Airport ( TPA ), ten miles ( 16 km ) east, but St. Pete -- Clearwater remains a destination for low - cost carriers. St. Pete -- Clearwater is a focus city for Las Vegas - based Allegiant Air. PIE is also less busy than Tampa, and is frequently used by pilots of private planes and executive jets. The airport uses `` Tampa Bay The Easy Way '' as an advertising slogan and Fly2PIE in reference to its three - letter IATA and FAA codes. Contents 1 History 1.1 Construction and wartime 1.2 Postwar operation 1.3 Recent developments 2 Facilities 3 Airlines and destinations 3.1 Passenger 4 Statistics 4.1 Airline market share 4.2 Top domestic destinations 4.3 Annual traffic 5 Accidents and incidents 6 See also 7 References 8 External links History The airport is on the west shoreline of Tampa Bay, six miles ( 10 km ) north of St. Petersburg, Florida ( the `` birthplace of commercial air transportation '' ). Barely a decade after the pioneer flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the first tickets for airline travel were sold by the St. Petersburg - Tampa Airboat Line of Tony Jannus to fare - paying passengers. Using a Benoist XIV amphibious aircraft, the inaugural flight took place from a location near the downtown St. Petersburg Pier. Mayor Abram C. Pheil of St. Petersburg and Mae Peabody of Dubuque, Iowa, were the first passengers, flying across the bay to Tampa and, according to a United Press account, reportedly reaching the maximum speed of 75 miles per hour during the flight. Other reports indicate that they reached an altitude of 50 feet ( 15 m ). This was the beginning of commercial air transportation anywhere in the world and is commemorated by a replica of the Benoist aircraft and a plaque at the airport terminal baggage claim area. Another replica is displayed at the St. Petersburg Museum of History adjacent to the Pier. Since 1991, the terminal holds the archives of the Florida Aviation Historical Society. Construction and wartime See also : Pinellas Army Air Field Construction of the airport at its present site started in March 1941. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the airport was acquired by the United States Army Air Forces, which used it as a military flight training base assigned to Third Air Force. The 304th Fighter Squadron, a combat training unit of the 337th Fighter Group based P - 40 Warhawks and, later, P - 51 Mustangs at Pinellas Army Airfield ( as it was then known ) for the duration of World War II. Antisubmarine patrols against German U-boats in the Gulf of Mexico were also flown from the airfield. To commemorate the airport 's vital role during that conflict, a plaque was dedicated at the airport terminal in 1994 by the P - 51 Fighter Pilots Association and Brigadier General James H. Howard, who was the only European Theater fighter pilot to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II and later served as the last wartime base commander of Pinellas Army Airfield. A permanent exhibit honoring General Howard is located in the terminal. Postwar operation FAA diagram After World War II the property was returned to Pinellas County by the U.S. government to operate as a civil airport. It was originally called Pinellas International Airport and given the IATA designation, PIE, which it still uses, because PIA was already taken by Peoria International Airport. It was later changed to St. Petersburg -- Clearwater International Airport because, according to airport manager `` Bobo '' Hayes, tourists did n't know where Pinellas county was. In the 1950s some airlines flew to both PIE and TPA, such as Delta Air Lines, Eastern Air Lines, National Airlines and Northwest Airlines. The April 1957 Official Airline Guide ( OAG ) shows 17 airline departures : ten Eastern, six National and one Mackey. Four of those flights were nonstop beyond Florida, including an Eastern DC - 4 to Chicago and a 1049G to Pittsburgh. With the advent of the jet age runway 17 / 35 was extended north into Tampa Bay ; the first scheduled jet was a Northwest Airlines Boeing 720B from Chicago in late 1961. ( The 1961 Aviation Week directory says PIE 's longest runways were 5700 ft, but probably 17 / 35 was 8000 ft when the 720B arrived. ) The increased capacity of the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC - 8, compared to the DC - 6 and DC - 7, prompted the Civil Aeronautics Board to approve consolidation of airline service for the Tampa Bay area at TPA in the early 1960s. During the early 1960s, Eastern was the last scheduled airline serving PIE and it ceased all flights from the airport in 1964. Airline service returned to PIE in the 1970s when Air Florida flew Boeing 707 jets followed by Lockheed L - 188 Electra turboprops out of PIE ; in 1982, Northeastern International started Douglas DC - 8 jet nonstops to Islip, New York, and in 1983 People Express started nonstops to Newark with Boeing 737s and Boeing 727s. In 1986 Florida Express flew British Aircraft Corporation BAC One - Eleven jets nonstop to its hub in Orlando. In 1987 American Airlines started nonstops to its Raleigh - Durham hub, but by October 1989 PIE once again did not have scheduled airline service. American Trans Air and Air South then began flights in the mid 1990s but both ended operations at PIE in 2004, ATA downsizing due to bankruptcy and Southeast going defunct. The airport was once again left without scheduled passenger flights. Recent developments In September 2006 Allegiant Air announced scheduled service from St. Petersburg -- Clearwater to cities in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Allegiant 's destination count from PIE has increased to 59 airports in the eastern United States. In February, the Lansing, Michigan service shifted to Grand Rapids, Michigan, with four weekly flights. The airport recently completed a US $22 million renovation, including, among other things, larger gates, new plumbing, and building jetway loading bridges as previous boarding and deplaning required all passengers to walk across the tarmac to their gates. In January 2015 Silver Airways announced it was beginning service to PIE, but in March the company had cancelled its plans. Facilities Runway 27 ( March 1988 ) Runway 17L and taxiway / runway 17R ( 1988 ) The airport covers 1900 acres ( 769 ha ) at an elevation of 11 feet ( 3 m ). It has two asphalt runways : 18 / 36 is 9,730 by 150 feet ( 2,966 x 46 m ) with an ILS approach, and 4 / 22 is 5,903 by 150 feet ( 1,799 x 46 m ). The airport is also the home of Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, the largest and busiest U.S. Coast Guard Air Station in the United States, operating HC - 130 Hercules and MH - 60T Jayhawk aircraft. The U.S. Army Reserve also maintains an Army Aviation Support Facility ( AASF ) at PIE immediately west of the approach end of Runway 17R for Companies A and F, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment and Medical Evacuation Unit, operating UH - 60 Blackhawk helicopters. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) - operated control tower, the FAA 's Central Florida Region Automated Flight Service Station ( AFSS ) ( which is the busiest AFSS in the United States ) and the St. Petersburg VORTAC for airways navigation are also important federal government services at the airport. Along with scheduled passenger and charter airlines as well as military flight operations, United Parcel Service ( UPS Airlines ) along with other air cargo operators and general / corporate aviation utilize the airport with UPS conducting extensive Boeing 757 - 200 freighter operations. The entire tract of the airport is designated as a Foreign Trade Zone ( FTZ ) and a large Airport Industrial Park developed in the 1980s is a major center of commerce. The airport and its tenants employ over 3,000 people and have an economic benefit of more than $400 million yearly to the Tampa Bay area. The airport has a 24 - hour airport rescue and fire - fighting ( ARFF ) department ( Index C ), along with operations, facilities, engineering, security, and administrative personnel. For the year ending June 30, 2017, the airport had 113,096 aircraft operations, an average of 310 operations per day ; with 71 % general aviation, 13 % military, 12 % commercial and 3 % air taxi. In November 2017, there were 259 aircraft based at this airport : 98 single - engine, 29 multi-engine, 56 jet, 39 helicopter, 36 military and 1 ultralight. Airlines and destinations Baggage - claim area, with replica of Benoist XIV flying boat flown by aviation pioneer Tony Jannus in 1914 ( 2009 photo ) PIE 's baggage - claim area has four baggage carousels ( 2009 photo ) St. Petersburg -- Clearwater International Airport has one terminal and thirteen gates : 1 -- 12 and 14. Passenger Airlines Destinations Allegiant Air Allentown, Appleton, Asheville, Austin, Bangor, Belleville / St. Louis, Bloomington / Normal, Cedar Rapids, Chattanooga, Chicago / Rockford, Cincinnati, Columbus -- Rickenbacker, Charlotte / Concord, Cleveland, Dayton, Des Moines, Elmira, Flint, Fort Wayne, Grand Rapids, Greensboro, Greenville / Spartanburg, Harrisburg, Huntington ( WV ), Indianapolis, Kansas City, Knoxville, Lexington, Louisville, Memphis, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Newburgh, Niagara Falls, Norfolk, Ogdensburg ( NY ), Omaha, Peoria, Pittsburgh, Plattsburgh, Providence, Raleigh / Durham, Roanoke, Sioux Falls, South Bend, Springfield / Branson, Syracuse, Toledo Seasonal : Fargo, Hagerstown ( MD ), Moline / Quad Cities, Phoenix / Mesa, Portsmouth ( NH ), Richmond, Tulsa Sun Country Airlines Charter : Gulfport / Biloxi Sunwing Airlines Seasonal : Halifax, Toronto -- Pearson Statistics Airline market share Carrier shares for ( Dec 2016 -- Nov 2017 ) Carrier Passengers ( arriving and departing ) Allegiant 1,985,000 ( 100 % ) Top domestic destinations Top domestic destinations ( December 2016 -- November 2017 ) Rank City Passengers Carriers Cincinnati, Ohio 50,520 Allegiant Indianapolis, Indiana 35,360 Allegiant Grand Rapids, Michigan 33,300 Allegiant Knoxville, Tennessee 31,840 Allegiant 5 Asheville, North Carolina 28,610 Allegiant 6 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 25,330 Allegiant 7 Columbus -- Rickenbacker, Ohio 24,400 Allegiant 8 Charlotte -- Concord, North Carolina 24,070 Allegiant 9 Lexington, Kentucky 23,160 Allegiant 10 Huntington, West Virginia 22,980 Allegiant Annual traffic Annual passenger traffic ( enplaned + deplaned ) at St Pete - Clearwater Airport, 1992 thru 2016 Year Passengers Year Passengers Year Passengers 776,087 2000 734,940 2009 776,535 1999 791,973 2008 742,380 1998 911,195 2017 2,055,269 2007 747,369 883,086 2016 1,837,035 2006 389,997 1,045,928 2015 1,645,402 2005 596,510 1995 1,086,051 2014 1,247,987 1,333,069 721,977 2013 1,017,049 2003 997,761 561,322 2012 865,942 2002 623,959 397,940 2011 833,068 637,310 Accidents and incidents On June 6, 1982, a Douglas C - 47 A ( N95C ), of Fromhagen Aviation, was written off after the starboard engine failed during the takeoff for a training flight. All five people aboard survived. On September 30, 2015, the pilot of a Piper PA - 30, registered to Jet Aircraft Management, crashed and died while practicing takeoffs and landings. On June 1, 2016, Allegiant Air flight 871 made an emergency landing at the airport, its scheduled destination. The plane departed from Moline, Illinois. No injuries were reported, and the airline declined to comment on the mechanical failure. See also Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater List of airports in the Tampa Bay Area Pinellas Army Air Field Florida portal Aviation portal References ^ Jump up to : FAA Airport Master Record for PIE ( Form 5010 PDF ). Federal Aviation Administration. effective November 9, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Fact Sheet 2012 '' ( PDF ). St. Petersburg -- Clearwater International Airport. Retrieved December 31, 2012. Jump up ^ `` IATA Airport code Search ( PIE : St. Pete / Clearwater ) ''. International Air Transport Association. Retrieved December 31, 2012. Jump up ^ `` List of NPIAS Airports '' ( PDF ). FAA.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2017. Jump up ^ http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/news/2015/01/09/st-pete-clearwater-airport-set-passenger-record-in.html Jump up ^ `` Tony Jannus -- An Enduring Legacy of Aviation ''. Tony Jannus Distinguished Aviation Society. Archived from the original on February 4, 2008. Retrieved April 25, 2008. ^ Jump up to : McCarthy, Kevin M. ( 2003 ), Aviation in Florida, Illustrated by William Trotter ( illustrated ed. ), Pineapple Press Inc, pp. 159 -- 164, ISBN 9781561642816 External link in publisher = ( help ) Jump up ^ Anderson, Anne W. ( 2010 ), Insiders ' Guide to the Greater Tampa Bay Area : Including Tampa, St. Petersburg, & Clearwater, Insiders ' Guide Series, Globe Pequot, p. 16, ISBN 9780762753475 Jump up ^ http://www.departedfligthts.com, Florida Express route map Jump up ^ ' Other ' airport gets facelift, St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 2007. Jump up ^ `` Silver Airways aborts flights to St. Pete - Clearwater International Airport '' ( Archive ). Tampa Bay Times. Thursday 31 March 2015. Retrieved on April 3, 2015. ^ Jump up to : https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2017/06/20/major-expansion-allegiant-unveils-28-new-routes-3-new-cities/103027250/ Jump up ^ http://ir.allegiantair.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=197578&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2281839 Jump up ^ https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2017/06/06/allegiant-airs-newest-destination-providence/102537002/ ^ Jump up to : `` St. Petersburg, FL : St. Petersburg - Clearwater International ( PIE ) ''. Bureau of Transportation Statistics ( BTS ), Research and Innovative Technology Administration ( RITA ), U.S. Department of Transportation. November 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2018. Jump up ^ Passenger Statistics & Reports. Jump up ^ `` N95C Accident report ''. Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved July 25, 2010. Jump up ^ `` Pilot killed in small plane crash at St. Pete - Clearwater International Airport ''. Bay News 9. September 30, 2015. Retrieved 2016 - 12 - 28. Jump up ^ `` Pilot dies in plane crash at St. Pete - Clearwater Airport ''. 10NEWS. Retrieved 2015 - 10 - 25. Jump up ^ Staff ( June 1, 2016 ). `` Allegiant flight declares emergency at St. Pete - Clearwater Airport ''. Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2016 - 12 - 28. Other sources This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/. Bickel, Karl A. -- The Mangrove Coast, 1942 by Coward McCann, Inc., Fourth Edition in 1989 by Omni Print Media, Inc., p. 265 External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to St. Petersburg - Clearwater International Airport. St. Petersburg -- Clearwater International Airport St. Petersburg -- Clearwater International Airport real - time ATC feed FAA Airport Diagram ( PDF ), effective February 1, 2018 FAA Terminal Procedures for PIE, effective February 1, 2018 Resources for this airport : AirNav airport information for KPIE ASN accident history for PIE FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker NOAA / NWS latest weather observations SkyVector aeronautical chart for KPIE FAA current PIE delay information Airports in Florida Primary Daytona Beach Destin -- Fort Walton Beach Fort Lauderdale -- Hollywood Gainesville Jacksonville Key West Miami Northeast Florida Northwest Florida Beaches Orlando Orlando Melbourne Orlando Sanford Palm Beach Pensacola Punta Gorda St. Pete -- Clearwater Sarasota -- Bradenton Southwest Florida Tallahassee Tampa Vero Beach Reliever Avon Park Executive Boca Raton Clearwater DeLand -- Taylor Fort Lauderdale Executive Herlong Jacksonville Executive Kissimmee Gateway Knight Lakeland Linder Lantana Miami Executive Naples New Smyrna Beach North Palm Beach North Perry Opa Locka Orlando Executive Ormond Beach Page Tampa Executive Venice Whitted General Airglades Apalachicola Arcadia Bartow Belle Glade Brooksville -- Tampa Bay Calhoun County Cecil Cross City Crystal River Dade - Collier DeFuniak Springs Destin Dunn Dunnellon -- Marion County Everglades Fernandina Beach Flager Hilliard Homestead Immokalee Inverness Keystone Heights LaBelle Lake City Gateway Lake Wales Leesburg Lewis Marathon Marco Island Marianna Merritt Island Miami Seaplane Ocala Okeechobee County Pahokee Palatka -- Larkin Perry -- Foley Plant City Pompano Beach Prince Quincy St. Lucie County Sebastian Sebring Sikes Space Coast Suwannee County Tri-County Umatilla Valkaria Wauchula Williston Winter Haven Witham Zephyrhills Public use Carrabelle - Thompson Fort Walton Beach Jack Browns Massey Ranch Orlando Apopka South Lakeland Tavares Wakulla County Private use Ames Buckingham Gardner Hidden Lake Jumbolair Kathrinstadt Ocean Reef Club Osborn Ridge Landing Sandy Creek NASA / Shuttle Landing Facility Spruce Creek Wellington Military Avon Park AFR Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater ( at St. Petersburg - Clearwater IAP ) Coast Guard Air Station Miami ( at Opa Locka Airport ) Duke Field Eglin AFB Homestead ARB Hurlburt Field Jacksonville Air National Guard Base ( at Jacksonville IAP ) NAS Jacksonville ( Towers Field ) NAS Key West MacDill AFB NS Mayport ( McDonald Field ) Patrick AFB NAS Pensacola ( Sherman Field ) Tyndall AFB NAS Whiting Field North Field South Field NOLF Choctaw NOLF Santa Rosa NOLF Saufley NOLF Spencer Defunct All - American Bushnell AAF NAS DeLand ( now DeLand - Taylor ) Disney Drew AAF ( now Tampa IAP ) Epcot Jacksonville -- Imeson McCoy AFB ( now Orlando IAP ) NAS Cecil Field ( now Cecil Airport ) NAAS Corry Field NAS Ellyson Field NAS Pensacola - Chevalier Field Naval Air Station Sanford ( now Orlando - Sanford IAP ) Opa - locka West Panama City -- Bay County NAS Richmond Tampa Bay Executive Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St._Pete -- Clearwater_International_Airport&oldid = 827001578 '' Categories : 1941 establishments in Florida Airports in Florida Airports in the Tampa Bay area Transportation buildings and structures in Pinellas County, Florida Transportation in the Tampa Bay Area Clearwater, Florida Buildings and structures in St. Petersburg, Florida Transportation in St. Petersburg, Florida Airports established in 1941 Hidden categories : CS1 errors : external links Use mdy dates from May 2014 Coordinates on Wikidata All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from December 2015 Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency Talk Contents About Wikipedia Cebuano Deutsch Español فارسی Français Italiano Norsk Suomi Тоҷикӣ اردو Edit links This page was last edited on 22 February 2018, at 05 : 24. 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Question: who flies out of clearwater st pete airport
Answer: Allegiant Air