Pittsburgh International Airport | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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Pittsburgh International Airport


00:02:37 1 Overview
00:05:46 2 History
00:05:55 2.1 Early years
00:09:40 2.2 Growth of a major airport
00:14:13 2.3 Decline of US Airways
00:16:14 2.4 Rise of other carriers
00:19:26 2.5 Airport property development
00:21:10 3 Passenger complex
00:21:38 3.1 Landside terminal
00:23:01 3.2 Airside terminal
00:24:04 3.2.1 Terminal information
00:24:26 3.2.1.1 Concourse A
00:25:12 3.2.1.2 Concourse B
00:26:08 3.2.1.3 Concourse C (International Concourse)
00:27:28 3.2.1.4 Concourse D
00:27:47 3.2.1.5 Concourse E (Defunct)
00:28:30 3.2.1.6 Missing Gate Numbers
00:28:54 3.2.2 Airline lounges
00:29:16 4 Airlines and destinations
00:29:25 4.1 Passenger
00:29:34 4.2 Cargo
00:31:00 4.2.1 International food cargo hub
00:31:47 5 Statistics
00:31:56 5.1 Top destinations
00:32:05 5.2 Airlines ranked by number of flights
00:32:15 5.3 Airline market share
00:32:24 5.4 Annual traffic
00:32:33 6 Ground transportation
00:32:42 6.1 Roads
00:33:25 6.1.1 Parking
00:34:42 6.2 Public transit
00:35:17 6.3 Future rail
00:36:08 7 Innovations
00:36:17 7.1 Wi-Fi
00:37:11 7.2 AirMall concept
00:38:18 7.3 Service
00:39:06 7.4 Aviation
00:39:21 7.5 Control tower
00:39:41 7.6 Public terminal access ("myPITpass")
00:40:23 8 Runways
00:42:14 9 Additional operations
00:42:24 9.1 FAA facilities
00:43:00 9.2 Fire school
00:44:48 9.3 Free trade zone
00:45:07 9.4 General aviation
00:45:51 9.5 Jetway maintenance
00:46:09 10 Future
00:47:21 11 Media portrayals
00:47:34 12 Accidents and incidents
00:47:44 13 See also



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Pittsburgh International Airport (IATA: PIT, ICAO: KPIT, FAA LID: PIT), formerly Greater Pittsburgh International Airport, is a civil–military international airport in the eastern United States, in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is located in Findlay and Moon townships of Allegheny County, about twenty miles (30 km) west of downtown Pittsburgh, at an approximate elevation of 1,200 feet (365 m) above sea level.
It was built to replace Allegheny County Airport, which was closer to Pittsburgh but too small to handle the growing passenger traffic. The new airport construction began in 1946 and opened in 1952. Over the decades, passenger traffic increased for the airport, especially as US Airways developed it as a major hub and expanded its services both domestically and internationally. Additional runways were added or lengthened and changes made in the terminal. Traffic continued to increase. It is now the first U.S. airport to allow non ticketed passengers to the air side terminal since the September 11 attacks.
A major, nearly billion dollar expansion and improvements were undertaken by the county and airport authority in 1987 at the request of US Airways, which operated a hub there and took on major financing of the changes. The new facilities opened in 1992 and have been ranked highly by travelers and industry journals, with some of the design becoming a model for other airports. In the early 21st century, airlines struggled with changing financial conditions, and US Airways began scaling down its local operation, shifting to Philadelphia and Charlotte. It was carrying debt and was unable to negotiate the terms for lower landing fees at the airport. Its reduction in flights through the end of the decade resulted in the partial closure of two concourses.
Since 2015, the airport has had success in attracting new low-cost carriers, including Allegiant Air, Frontier Airlines, and Spirit Airlines, along with international carriers Condor, British Airways, and Wow Air.
After United Airlines shifted flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Washington–Dulles at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport, Pittsburgh became the last airport in Pennsylvania to have non-stop flights into EWR.

Pittsburgh International Airport is the busiest airport in western Pennsylvania and the second-busiest airport in the state, after Philadelphia International ...