Fort Wayne International Airport | |||||||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
Owner/Operator | Fort Wayne-Allen County Airport Authority | ||||||||||||||||||
Serves | Fort Wayne, Indiana | ||||||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 814 ft / 248 m | ||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°58′42″N 085°11′43″W / 40.97833°N 85.19528°WCoordinates: 40°58′42″N 085°11′43″W / 40.97833°N 85.19528°W | ||||||||||||||||||
Website | www.FlyFWA.com | ||||||||||||||||||
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Location of airport in Indiana/United States | |||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration
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Aircraft operations | 40,961 |
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Based aircraft | 84 |
Fort Wayne International Airport (IATA: FWA, ICAO: KFWA, FAA LID: FWA) is eight miles southwest of Fort Wayne, in Allen County, Indiana, United States. It is owned by the Fort Wayne-Allen County Airport Authority.
The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport since it has over 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) per year.Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 323,252 enplanements in calendar year 2014, 9.59% more than 2013. Based on passenger enplanements, Fort Wayne International ranked #151 out of the 550 airports in the United States that received scheduled passenger airline service in 2014. As such, the airport is classified by the FAA as a "nonhub", or an airport that has between 10,000 and 400,000 enplanements per year.
The airport has one terminal, the Lieutenant Paul Baer Terminal. Passenger flights reach seven airline hubs of Atlanta, Chicago, Charlotte, Dallas-Fort Worth, Detroit, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and Newark Liberty International Airport (beginning September 2016) along with flights to Orlando, Punta Gorda (serving Fort Myers and Sarasota), Tampa, Phoenix, and seasonal service to Myrtle Beach. Together, flights from the airport to these twelve cities serve over 710,000 combined arriving and departing passengers per year.