The OAG for April 1957 shows 57 weekday departures on Eastern, 7 Piedmont, 6 Capital, 4 Delta and 2 Southern. Delta Air Lines began scheduled passenger service in 1956. Ticketing and baggage claim were on each side of an open space that bisected the building north to south, and a mezzanine restaurant and airline offices overlooked this open space. The terminal had two floors passenger operations were confined to the ground floor. In 1954, a 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m 2) passenger terminal opened and the airport was renamed Douglas Municipal Airport in honor of former Charlotte Mayor Ben Elbert Douglas Sr., who had overseen the airport's opening 20 years earlier. The airfield was used by the Third Air Force for antisubmarine patrols and training.ġ950 to mid-1960s: into the jet age The US military invested more than $5 million in airfield improvements by the time the facility was returned to the City of Charlotte in 1946. The United States Army Air Forces took control of the airport and established Charlotte Air Base in early 1941, which was renamed Morris Field soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The original passenger terminal still exists and is used for offices and training rooms by various aviation-related organizations. In 1936, Charlotte Municipal Airport opened, operated by the City of Charlotte Eastern Air Lines began scheduled passenger service in 1937. The city received Works Progress Administration funding to establish Charlotte's first municipal airport the airport was, at the time, the largest single WPA project in the United States, incorporating a terminal, hangar, beacon tower and three runways. A commercial-civil-military facility, the airport is home to the Charlotte Air National Guard base and its host unit, the 145th Airlift Wing of the North Carolina Air National Guard. The airport has four runways and one passenger terminal with 115 gates across five concourses. Charlotte is a fortress hub for American Airlines, which operates the majority of the airport's flights. In 2021, CLT grew to the sixth busiest airport in the United States. In 2019, CLT was the 11th-busiest airport in the United States in terms of passenger traffic, having processed over 50 million passengers, and fifth-busiest in terms of aircraft operations, ranking sixth globally. In 1982 the airport was renamed again, this time to its current Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
Įstablished in 1935 as Charlotte Municipal Airport, the airport was later renamed for Ben Elbert Douglas Sr., who was mayor of Charlotte when the airport was first built. Operated by the city of Charlotte's aviation department, the airport covers 5,558 acres (2,249 ha) of land. Charlotte Douglas is the primary airport for commercial and military use in the Charlotte metropolitan area. Source: Charlotte Douglas International Airport Ĭharlotte Douglas International Airport ( IATA: CLT, ICAO: KCLT, FAA LID: CLT), typically referred to as Charlotte Douglas, Douglas Airport, or simply CLT, is an international airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, located roughly six miles west of the city's central business district.
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