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, United States, located roughly six miles west of the city's central business district.
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