FAIRBANKS AIRPORT ASSISTANCE

History of Fairbanks International Airport

The airport opened in 1951 and took over existing scheduled airline traffic to Fairbanks, which had previously used Ladd Army Airfield. Alaska Airlines used Fairbanks as its main hub in the 1950s, with service to Seattle and Portland as well as intrastate service to Anchorage, Nome, and other destinations. By 1967, however, the airline shifted its Alaska hub to Anchorage; its Anchorage-Fairbanks service continues to this day.

In the mid-1970s, following the development of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Alaska Airlines and Braniff International offered interchange service between Fairbanks and Houston via Anchorage, Seattle, and Dallas. In 1982, following airline deregulation, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines began a similar interchange service using Boeing 727s.Pan American World Airways has also served Fairbanks since 1932. The station was originally opened after the acquisition of Pacific International Airways and used for short-haul services to Juneau, Seattle, Ketchikan, Whitehorse, and other destinations. Pan Am intended to use Fairbanks as a stop for service to Asia as early as 1931, but initial difficulty in negotiating landing rights with the Soviet Union, followed by the outbreak of World War II, delayed these plans until decades later. Pan Am service to Fairbanks continued through the opening of FAI until 1965, when the Civil Aeronautics Board terminated Pan Am's rights to serve Alaska.

Pan American World Airways eventually used Fairbanks as a stopover for transpacific service from New York and Seattle to Tokyo starting in September 1969. In 1974, Pan Am agreed to transfer its Fairbanks-Seattle service to Western Airlines and requested that the CAB allow its New York-Tokyo service to be suspended starting in April 1975. Other carriers, such as Japan Airlines and Korean Air, began to use Fairbanks as a technical stop for transatlantic cargo flights in the late 1970s.

Facilities Fairbanks International Airport

The terminal building, situated on the northwest side of the airport, contains seven gates: two for commuter carriers and five for larger carriers.

Runways

Fairbanks International Airport covers an area of 3,470 acres (1,404 ha) at an elevation of 439 feet (134 m) above mean sea level. It has four runways.

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