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Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport:PHX logo
IATA: PHX - ICAO: KPHX - FAA: PHX
Summary

<tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Airport type</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Public</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Operator</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">City of Phoenix</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Serves</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Phoenix, Arizona</td></tr>

Elevation AMSL1,135 ft (345.9 m)
Coordinates33°26′03″N, 112°00′42″W
Runways
DirectionLengthSurface
ftm
8/2611,4893,502Concrete
7L/25R10,3003,139Asphalt
7R/25L7,8002,377Concrete
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport:KPHXAD
PHX redirects here. For other uses of PHX, see PHX (disambiguation).

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (IATA: PHX, ICAO: KPHX, FAA LID: PHX) is a public airport located three miles (4.8 km) east of the central business district (CBD) of Phoenix, a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. It is Arizona's main international airport and one of the largest aviation facilities in the American Southwest.

Sky Harbor has been operating under its unique name since prior to 1935, when it was purchased by the City of Phoenix. In the 1950s it was serviced by four airline companies. Today, the airport serves as a hub for Phoenix-based US Airways, and also serves as a focus city for Dallas-based Southwest Airlines.

In 2005, the airport served 41.2 million passengers, making it the eighth largest in the United States[1], and fourteenth largest airport in the world,[2] in terms of passengers. On a daily basis the airport handles 1,498 aircraft that arrive and depart, along with 108,200 passengers daily. Sky Harbor has grown so rapidly that Phoenix is in the process of utilizing Williams Gateway Airport in Mesa as a secondary airport.

Sky Harbor's private airplane area also serves as one of eight service centers for the Medevac airline Air Evac.

A new air traffic control tower is under construction. When it is completed in 2007, it will be the tallest structure in the airport complex, at 335 feet (102 m).


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Terminals, Airlines and Destinations

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport has three terminals, which are numbered 2, 3 and 4. Terminal 1, the original terminal from 1952, was torn down in 1990. The airport administration states that the designation Terminal 1 has been "retired," similar to the number of a famous athlete, and that it did not wish to renumber the other terminals since passengers were already familiar with the numbers in place.

Free wireless Internet access is available in all terminals.


Terminal 2

Terminal 2, opened in 1962, provides 16 gates on 1 concourse, and the Red Carpet Club, operated by United Airlines.

Gates C, D, 1 - 5, 6A, 6B, 7 - 13

Terminal 3

Terminal 3 opened in 1979 and provides 16 gates on 2 concourses, as well is the Crown Room Club, operated by Delta Air Lines.

South Concourse: Gates 2, 4 - 7, 9, North Concourse: Gates 15 - 20, 23 - 26


Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport:PHXterminal4

Terminal 4

Terminal 4, opened in 1990 and named after former Arizona Senator and 1964 Presidential candidate Barry M. Goldwater, provides 84 gates on 7 concourses. There are three US Airways Clubs in Terminal 4, at gates A7, A19 and B5.

Concourse A: Gates A1 - A14, A17 - A30, Concourse B: Gates B1(A,B,C) - B14, B15(A,B,C) - B28, Concourse C: Gates C1 - C20, Concourse D: Gates D1 - D8


New Service

Airport security

Sky Harbor is scheduled to become one of the first airports that uses Backscatter X-ray technologies for screening passengers. This technology allows screeners to tell if passengers are carrying hidden weapons by allowing them to see through passengers clothes. For this reason, these devices, which are available both as freestanding equipment and mobile 'cameras' have been dubbed 'naked machines' by some civil rights advocates[citation needed] concerned that the devices essential show screeners nude images of passengers and have been deployed without making passengers aware of this infringement on their privacy.

Aircraft incidents

Sky Harbor has not had any major accidents occur at or near the airport. On August 16, 1987, Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which was flying from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport near Detroit, Michigan, to John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California, with an intermediate stop at Sky Harbor, crashed on takeoff in Detroit, killing all of the passengers – including a large number of Phoenix-area residents – except for a young girl.

References

  1. ^ North America's largest airports by number of passengers. Retrieved on September 12 2006.
  2. ^ World's largest airports by number of passengers. Retrieved on September 12 2006.

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