Columbus Metropolitan Airport
Airport in Georgia, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Columbus Airport[1] (IATA: CSG, ICAO: KCSG, FAA LID: CSG) (formerly Columbus Metropolitan Airport) is four miles northeast of Columbus, in Muscogee County, Georgia, United States.[2] Serving Georgia's second largest city, it is Georgia's fourth busiest airport.
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Columbus Airport Commission | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Columbus, Georgia | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 397 ft / 121 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 32°30′59″N 084°56′20″W | ||||||||||||||
Website | www.FlyColumbusGA.com | ||||||||||||||
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FAA records say the airport had 51,288 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,[4] 48,526 in 2009 and 63,726 in 2010.[5] The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).[6]
Eastern Airlines flights began about 1944, Delta arrived in 1947 and Southern in 1949; Eastern and Southern pulled out in 1979 and Delta's last mainline flights were in 1995–96.
In 1968 Southern was allowed to start nonstop DC-9s Columbus to Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C., three a day, all continuing to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. The flights continued (two to four a day) until 1979.