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![]() ![]() AerLingus, Air Aruba, Air Greenland, El Al, Ghana Airways, Icelandair, KLM, Ladeco, and Mexicana have used BWI in the past. Air Jamaica and British Airways have used BWI for many years. Dulles still deals with most of the region's international flights. In 1997, a new international terminal ( Concourse E) was added. This is something that Washington Dulles International Airport still does not have. The station had easy access to Washington, D.C. BWI became the first airport in the United States to be served by a major rail station. It gave a rail connection to passengers on the Northeast Corridor though Amtrak. To get more passengers from the Washington area, the airport was renamed Baltimore/Washington International Airport in 1973. The Maryland State Aviation Administration took control of the airfield. The State of Maryland bought Friendship International Airport from Baltimore for $36 million in 1972. It dealt with flights across the continent. The early Boeing 707s and Douglas DC-8s could not use Washington National, and Dulles was not built until 1962, so Baltimore became Washington's jet airport. Eastern, Capital, American, National, TWA, United, 2 Delta and Allegheny flew through BWI at that time. In April 1957, the airport had 52 weekday departures. ![]() The airport was opened on June 24, 1950, by President Harry Truman. The airport was first named Friendship International Airport after the Friendship Methodist Church which was next to the land used to build the airport until 1948. The planning to build a new airport on 3,200 acres (1,300 ha) to serve the Baltimore/Washington area began just after World War II. Griesbach Excellence in Airport Concessions Contest. ![]() The airport also won second place for North American airports in the "Best Food and Beverage Program" of the 2010 Richard A. This was based on its 2009 Airport Service Quality survey. passengers) in the world by the Airports Council International. In 2010, BWI was listed as the best airport of its size (15–25 mil. The airport was also 47th in the world in total aircraft movements in 2008. BWI was the 24th busiest airport in North America in 2010. July was the busiest month ever in the airport's history. 21.9 million passengers traveled through BWI in 2010. He is a Baltimore native and the first African American to be on the Supreme Court of the United States.īWI is a focus city for Southwest Airlines and Cape Air. It is about 10 miles (16 km) south of Baltimore and 32 miles (51 km) northeast of Washington, DC. The airport is in northern Anne Arundel County, Maryland. īaltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is an airport serving the Washington Metropolitan Area in the United States. Sources: Federal Aviation Administration and BWI Airport. ![]()
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