Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport

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Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Kenton County Airport Board
Operator Kenton County Airport Board
Serves Cincinnati, Ohio/Covington, Kentucky
Location 2939 Terminal Drive
Hebron, Kentucky
Hub for
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 896 ft / 273 m
Coordinates {{#invoke:Coordinates|coordinsert|39°02′56″N 084°40′04″W / 39.04889°N 84.66778°W / 39.04889; -84.66778|type:airport}}
Website www.cvgairport.com
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Statistics (2015)
Total passengers 6,316,332
Aircraft operations 133,068
Sources: Airport website[4]

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CVG Airfield Layout Diagram (2016 - FAA)

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport Template:Airport codes is a public international airport located in Hebron, Kentucky, United States. It serves the Greater Cincinnati metropolitan area. The airport's code, CVG, comes from the nearest major city at the time of its opening, Covington, Kentucky.[5] CVG covers an area of 7,000 acres (28.3 km2). CVG is the only airport in Indiana, Kentucky, or Ohio that features nonstop service to Europe. The airport's international destinations include Cancún, Freeport, Montego Bay, Paris, Punta Cana, and Toronto. The airport is the busiest in Kentucky and the second busiest serving an Ohio metropolitan area.

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is the second smallest domestic hub for Delta Air Lines and plays host to the headquarters and main maintenance base for Delta Private Jets. The airport is the largest base for Allegiant Air that is not a vacation destination, largest market for Vacation Express, and the 8th largest market for Frontier Airlines. In addition to a rapidly diversifying list of passenger airlines, CVG is the fastest-growing cargo airport in North America. It is one of three global hubs for DHL Aviation and DHL Express, ranking 6th in North America and 34th in the world for total cargo operations. The airport is headquarters and hub for Southern Air, which operates flights around the world for DHL Aviation.[6] The airport offers non-stop passenger service to 56 destinations with 186 average daily departures.[7]

History

President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved preliminary funds for site development of the Greater Cincinnati Airport February 11, 1942. This was part of the United States Army Air Corps program to establish training facilities during World War II. At the time, air traffic in the area centered on Lunken Airport just southeast of central Cincinnati.[8] Lunken opened in 1926 and was located in the Ohio River Valley. Due to its location, the airport frequently experienced fog, and the 1937 flood completely submerged its runways and two-story terminal building.[9] While federal officials wanted an airfield site that would not be prone to flooding, Cincinnati officials hoped to build Lunken into the premier airport of the region.[10]

A coalition of officials from Boone, Kenton and Campbell Counties in Kentucky took advantage of Cincinnati's short-sightedness and lobbied Congress to build an airfield there.[11] Boone County officials offered a suitable site on the provision that Kenton County paid the acquisition cost. In October 1942, Congress provided $2 million to construct four runways.[8]

The field officially opened August 12, 1944, with the first B-17 bombers beginning practice runs on August 15. As the tide of the war had already turned, the Air Corps only used the field until 1945 before it was declared surplus. On October 27, 1946, a small wooden terminal building opened and the airport prepared for commercial service.[8]

The first commercial flight, on an American Airlines DC-3 from Cleveland, Ohio, landed at the airport January 10, 1947, at 9:53 am. A Delta Air Lines flight followed moments later.[12] The April 1957 Official Airline Guide shows 97 weekday departures: 37 American, 26 Delta, 24 TWA, 8 Piedmont and 2 Lake Central. As late as November 1959 the airport had four 5,500 ft (1,700 m) runways at 45-degree angles, the north–south runway eventually being extended into today's runway 18C/36C.

In the 1950s, Cincinnati city leaders began pushing for a major expansion of a site in Blue Ash to compete with the Greater Cincinnati Airport and replace Lunken as the city's primary airport.[13] The city purchased Hugh Watson Field in 1955, turning it into Blue Ash Airport.[14] The city's Blue Ash development plans were hampered by community opposition, three failed Hamilton County bond measures,[15] political infighting,[16] and Cincinnati's decision not to participate in the federal airfield program.[17]

Airport diagram for December 1958

Jet age

On December 16, 1960, the jet age arrived in Cincinnati when a Delta Air Lines Convair 880 from Miami completed the first scheduled jet flight. The airport needed to expand and build more modern terminals and other facilities; the original Terminal A was expanded and renovated. The north–south runway was extended Template:Convert/to. In 1964, the board approved a $12 million bond to expand the south concourse of Terminal A by Template:Convert/sqft and provide nine gates for TWA, American, and Delta.[8] A new east–west runway crossing the longer north–south runway was constructed in 1971 south of the older east–west runway.

Comair hub

In 1977, before the Airline Deregulation Act was passed, CVG, like many small airports, anticipated the loss of a lot of flights; creating the opportunity for Patrick Sowers, Robert Tranter, David and Raymound Muller to establish Comair to fill the void. The airline began service to Akron/Canton, Cleveland, and Evansville.

In 1981, Comair became a public company, added 30-seat turboprops to its fleet, and began to rapidly expand its destinations. In 1984, Comair became a Delta Connection carrier with Delta's establishment of a hub at CVG. That same year, Comair introduced its first international flights from Cincinnati to Toronto. In 1992, Comair moved into Concourse C, as Delta Air Lines gradually continued to acquire more of the airlines stock. In 1993, Comair was the launch customer for the Canadair Regional Jet, which it would later operate the largest fleet in the world. By 1999, Comair was the largest regional airline in the country worth over $2 billion, transporting 6 million passengers yearly to 83 destinations on 101 aircraft. Later that year, Delta Air Lines acquired the remaining portion of Comair's stock, causing Comair to solely operate Delta Connection flights.[18]

Enterprise Airlines hub

In 1988, two founders of Comair, Patrick Sowers and Robert Tranter, launched a new scheduled airline from CVG named Enterprise Airlines, that served 16 cities at its peak. The airline spearheaded the regional jet revolution and used 10-seat business jets in scheduled service. The flights became popular with Cincinnati companies. The airline served destinations including Baltimore, Boston, Cedar Rapids, Columbus (OH), Green Bay, Greensboro, Greenville, Hartford, Memphis, Milwaukee, New York–JFK, and Wilmington (NC).[19] The airline also became the first international feed carrier by feeding the British Airways Concorde at JFK. In 1991, the airline ceased operations because of high fuel prices and the suspension of the British Airways contract after the first Gulf War.

Delta hub

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CVG-based Comair CRJ-100 landing at Cincinnati with Cincinnati Jet Hub Livery

In the mid-1980s, Delta created a hub in Cincinnati and constructed Terminal C and D, with 22 gates. Delta built the CVG hub in order to gain a presence in the Midwest, after it had stuck to the southern United States for so long. It was chosen because the city had many Fortune 500 companies, and because many midwestern cities such as Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and St. Louis already had large hubs. In 1992, Delta made Cincinnati its number two hub and spent $500 million constructing Terminal 3 with Concourse A and B, in addition to adding a $50 million Concourse C for Comair. Also, another $350 million was used to expand and construct four much longer runways. During the 1990s, Delta operated a lot of mainline flights out of the airport, however during the late 1990s, ramped up Comair's operations, and established Delta Connection. This dramatically increased the aircraft operations from around 300,000 to 500,000 yearly aircraft movements. In turn, passenger volumes doubled within a decade from 10 million to 20 million. This expansion prompted the building of runway 18L/36R and the airport began making preparations to construct Concourse D, while adding an expansion to Concourse A and B. At its peak, CVG became Delta's second-largest hub, handling over 670 Delta and Delta Connection flights daily in 2005.[20] Delta served over 130 destinations with over 450 connection and 220 mainline flights in 2005. During this time, it was the fourth largest hub in the world for a single airline, based on departures, ranking only behind Atlanta, Chicago, and Dallas.[21] The hub served everything from the 64 mile CVG-DAY, to a daily non-stop to Honolulu and Anchorage, to numerous transatlantic destinations including Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, London–Gatwick, Munich, Paris–Orly, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Rome, and Zürich.[22] Delta was also planning on launching Asia service to CVG, beginning with Beijing–Capital, then expanding to Tokyo–Narita and Shanghai–Pudong eventually, however launch plans were delayed in 2002 due to slot restrictions and eventually stopped after the bankruptcy in 2005.[23]

Cuts by Delta Air Lines and SkyTeam partners

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Food Court in Concourse B

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Delta hub cuts

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Delta 757-200 parked at Concourse B
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Comair CRJ-700 taxiing from Concourse A

When Delta went into bankruptcy in September 2005, a large reduction at CVG eliminated most early-morning and night flights.[22] These initial cuts caused additional routes to become unprofitable, causing the frequency of low-volume routes to be further cut from 2006-2007. Planning for the new east/west runway stopped, along with all expansions to current terminals and Terminal 1 was closed due to lack of service. In 2008, Delta merged with Northwest Airlines and cut flight capacity from the Cincinnati hub by 22 percent with an additional 17 percent reduction in 2009.[20] Once Delta acquired Northwest, Comair's older fleet, which was costly as a result of rising oil prices, was cut and replaced with other Delta Connection carriers. In 2010, Delta stabilized CVG operations with 63 destinations between mainline and connection flights.[27]

Many businesses in Cincinnati have urged Delta to restore the service level it had in the late 1990s and early 2000s while some, such as Chiquita Banana, Toyota, and Veritiv have already relocated to cities with more available flights.[28] The only remaining intercontinental service by Delta is a daily evening departure to Paris. In addition to serving the heavy international travel demand of local companies such as P&G and GE Aviation, the daily Paris flight is also sustained in great part because it ferries jet-engine parts between factories in Cincinnati and France due to GE Aviation's presence. Each year the flight carries Template:Convert/lb of engine parts.[29] Air France operated flights into CVG for several periods for over a decade before finally terminating the service in 2007. Aeroméxico, Air France, KLM, and WestJet codeshare on Delta's international services out of CVG to Cancun, Paris, and Toronto.[30][31]

In January 2010, Delta's CEO Richard Anderson anticipated that there would be 160–170 daily departures in the summer and that the number would not change through at least the fall.[32][33] Delta closed Concourse A in Terminal 3 on May 1, 2010, and consolidated all operations into Concourse B. This resulted in the layoff of more than 800 employees. Delta, however, says that it will maintain the same amount of departures from CVG.[34]

In June 2011, Delta announced that it would cut another 10% of the CVG hub capacity that summer, offering between 145–165 daily flights.

End of Comair service

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A Comair CRJ-100ER in Concourse B at CVG, bound for Baltimore

In July 2012, Delta announced that its wholly owned and CVG-based subsidiary, Comair, would cease all operations by October of the same year. However, it said, "the discontinuation of Comair's operations will not result in any significant changes to Delta's network, which has enough flexibility to accommodate these changes".[35] Delta transferred Comair's larger planes to other carriers and retired its 50-seat planes. Endeavor Air (formerly Pinnacle Airlines) now has a maintenance base at the airport and is one of the main third party operators for Delta Air Lines at CVG.

Low-cost service expansion

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Frontier A320 taxiing from Concourse A in front of the Delta hangar

CVG has long struggled with high fares because of Delta's dominance at the airport.[36][37] Since 2013, Allegiant Air and Frontier Airlines have been expanding at CVG, giving local travelers low fares without having to commute to Dayton, Louisville or Indianapolis. These fares are often 75% less than other airlines at CVG.[38]

Frontier Airlines announced it would begin service from CVG in October 2012 with a daily flight to Denver. This was the first modern attempt at bringing a low-cost carrier into the CVG region. Shortly there after, Frontier announced it would now offer two daily flights to Denver, and limited weekly service to Trenton/Mercer.[39] Since then, Frontier has announced service to Atlanta, Cancun, Dallas/Ft Worth, Houston–Intercontinental, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Tampa.[40] In addition to the new destinations, Frontier has added larger planes on many routes including Denver, Dallas, Fort Meyers, and Orlando, which use Frontier's new Airbus A321 seating 230 passengers.[41] Most recently, Frontier has expanded service to Cancun and Tampa.[42]

Allegiant Air began service from CVG in February 2014 to Sanford/Orlando and Punta Gorda. Within two months of beginning operation, Allegiant announced additional service to Las Vegas, Fort Lauderdale, Myrtle Beach, Phoenix, and Tampa.[43] Since then Allegiant has added routes to Austin, Baltimore, Cancun, Destin/Ft Walton Beach, Jacksonville, Montego Bay, New Orleans, Punta Cana, Savannah/Hilton Head.[40] In July 2015, Allegiant Air announced plans to make CVG its midwestern base of operations with three based Airbus A319s and 90 new jobs for pilots, flight attendants, and service workers. Since the initial announcement, Allegiant has based a fourth A319 at the airport. In Summer 2016, became Allegiant's largest origination city and will be its 5th largest market as of early 2017 with 61 weekly flights.[44][40] Most recently, Allegiant Air added new service from CVG to Newark and San Juan, while adding seasonal 2nd daily flights on Saturdays to Punta Gorda, Tampa/St. Petersburg, and Orlando/Sanford.[45][46]

On January 4, 2017, Southwest Airlines announced it would begin service to CVG, offering a total of 8 peak daily departures. On weekdays, 5 daily flights will be destined for Southwest's largest operation at Chicago–Midway, while only 4 will be offered on weekends, and the other 3 flights will go to Baltimore.[47]

Legacy carrier expansion

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Empty Concourse C seen from taxiway D

In February 2015, Delta announced another 14% cut at CVG, ending flights from 4 cities, while reducing frequency to a dozen other cities, reducing daily departures from 106 to 89. These cuts were a result of Delta's replacement of 50-seat connection airplanes with 150–200-seat planes.[48]

In Fall 2015, PSA Airlines opened a maintenance base at CVG in the old PIMCO hangar and a crew base beginning in January 2016. The new bases have led to additional American Airlines flight at CVG, operated by PSA Airlines including Charlotte, New York–LaGuardia, and Philadelphia. According to Will Smith, General Manager of Envoy, further American expansion at CVG is planned.[49]

In 2015, Delta Air Lines had its first increase in passenger capacity since it began cuts in late 2004. This was mostly due to the retirement of smaller regional aircraft for mainline service.[50][51][52]

In 2016, Delta Air Lines continued to increase seat growth at the airport, mostly as a result of using larger aircraft. Delta has added capacity on routes to Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Fayetteville/Bentonville, Las Vegas, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Newark, Orlando, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seattle/Tacoma, St. Louis, Toronto, and Washington D.C. Delta will add 717 mainline this Spring/Summer to Boston, Denver, Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Washington D.C., add a second daily flight to Orlando, add an eight daily flight to Atlanta, and extend Seattle/Tacoma into November. In total, Delta has increased seats by 7.1%[53] in 2016, maintaining Cincinnati as its smallest domestic hub with 85 peak daily departures.[54]

In the Summer of 2016, United Airlines announced the resumption of mainline flights at CVG to Denver and Chicago–O'Hare. These mainline flights were announced as seasonal, though United has extended the service into May 2017 for Chicago and made Denver year round. In addition, they have removed all 50-seat planes from the airport and are using larger regional jets. Later in August 2016, United Airlines announced new daily mainline flights to San Francisco, beginning on June 8, 2017. The flights will be on A319s leaving CVG early in the evening to allow for one stop service to several cities in Asia. This is continuing UA's trend of expanding mainline flights at CVG and directly competing with Delta on lucrative business routes. In November 2016, United Airlines announced an increase to 3 daily departures to Washington–Dulles beginning on April 3, 2017. As a result, United has grown its seat capacity at CVG by 9.5% in 2016.[53]

Facilities

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Interior view of the atrium
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The People Mover at CVG, which connects Terminal 3 to Concourse A and B



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