Lehigh Valley International Airport (formerly Allentown–Bethlehem–Easton International Airport) is a domestic airport located in Hanover Township in

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. Lehigh Valley International Airport is located in the center of the

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, roughly northeast of

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, northwest of

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, and southwest of Easton. Lehigh Valley International Airport is the fourth busiest airport in Pennsylvania behind the

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, and

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international airports and the only public airport located in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania's third most populous metropolitan region. As of 2020, the airport is utilized by 851,000 passengers annually. The airport is also heavily utilized for the transport of air cargo due to growth of e-commerce and its close proximity to major population centers on the East Coast. As of 2016, the airport ships more than 126 million pounds of cargo annually with growth of nearly 166% in cargo tonnage shipped between 2015 and 2016. Companies such as

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are using the airport, a major factor in its growth.

History

Lehigh Valley International Airport opened in 1929. Scheduled airline flights began on September 16, 1935 with flights by

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s. The airport hangar initially served as the passenger terminal. The first terminal building at the airport was built in 1938 as part of a

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project. During

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, the

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's V-5 flight training program was conducted at the airport in conjunction with ground training held at

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in nearby

. In addition, the headquarters of Group 312 of the Civil Air Patrol was at Allentown–Bethlehem Airport. One of its activities was to provide a courier service for cargo defense plants. Allentown CAP pilots also patrolled the

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coastline and were active in recruiting young men for the

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's air cadet program. By January 1944, work on a new runway was completed and a Class A United States Weather Bureau station had been installed. About 1,000 Naval Aviation Cadets were trained in 1943, and civil and military air traffic had increased. In late July, the

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approved the construction of a second story addition to the administration building. The building housed the Lehigh Aircraft Company, the weather bureau station, the Civil Aeronautic communications station, and the office and waiting room of United Air Lines. In August, the V-5 flight training program ended when the Navy decided to move all flight training to naval air bases under Navy pilots. In April 1946, the Lehigh Airport Authority was created to own and manage the airport. The October 1946 command and general staff diagram shows four runways forming an asterisk: runway 1 was 2680 feet long, runway 6 was 4000 feet, runway 9 was 3800 feet and runway 14 was 3100 feet. Construction on a new passenger terminal began in 1948 and was finished in 1950. Allentown–Bethlehem–Easton (ABE) Airport, as it was then called, had flights on United, Trans World Airlines since 1947, and

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since 1949–50. DC-4s and DC-6s appeared after runway 6 was extended to 5,000 feet. TWA left in 1967, replaced by Allegheny Airlines; Colonial's successor Eastern Air Lines remained until 1991.

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' DC-9's offered nonstop flights to

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and were continued by

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after Northwest's acquisition of Republic. Northwest also offered one-stop flights to

with a stop in

. Regional partners replaced successor Northwest around 2003.

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started nonstop flights to

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and

in 1991 and later added flights to

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, initially operated by Delta until changing to Delta Connection carrier Comair. In 2012, Frontier Airlines started twice a week nonstop A319 flights to Orlando International Airport; they ended in 2013.

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now flies nonstop from Lehigh Valley to

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via

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(SFB) in nearby Sanford, Florida. Construction began on the present terminal in 1973. The project, designed by Wallace & Watson, was completed in 1976. The most recent terminal renovations were completed in two phases: * Phase I (April 2009). Cost: $7,253,235;

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grant amount: $3 million; general contractor: Lobar, Inc. ( Dillsburg, PA); architect: Breslin, Ridyard, Fadero Architects ( Allentown, PA); square footage of the Phase I project: 24,000 sq.ft., 7,000 sq.ft. of which is new space. * Phase II (November 2010). Cost: about $7,225,000; PENNDOT grant amount: $3.5 million; general contractor: E.R. Stuebner Construction, Inc. (

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); architect: Breslin, Ridyard, Fadero Architects (Allentown, PA); square footage of renovated space: 33,600 sq.ft. On May 26, 2016, Solar Impulse 2 (SI2), piloted by Bertrand Piccard, completed the 13th leg (from

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) of the first around the world (43,041 km) fuel-less flight by this solar-powered plane with a landing at ABE. On June 11, 2016, André Borschberg began the 14th leg (ABE to JFK, which included a dramatic Statue of Liberty flyover). While at ABE, an open house was held for public viewing of the SI2 aircraft. The

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(FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2019–2023 categorizes Lehigh Valley International Airport as a non-hub primary commercial service facility. In previous years, the FAA categorized the airport as a "small hub." After several years of falling passenger counts in the early 2000s, the airport has lately experienced a significant rebound in passenger totals due to it being an alternative to congested airports in Philadelphia and Newark, its facility improvements, a rapidly growing regional population, carrier expansions (especially

), and multiple new routes being added for popular destinations and major hubs across the country. The airport was utilized by 911,970 passengers in 2019, which represents an increase of 15.01% over its use the previous year, in 2018. Much of this growth has been driven by Allegiant Airlines' expansion at the airport. One of the shortest scheduled jet flights in the contiguous US operated between Lehigh Valley (ABE) and Philadelphia International (PHL) airports.

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(American Eagle) regularly operated an ERJ-145 on the 55-mile route. The average time in the air was 20 minutes. It was the shortest flight in the Contiguous United States until 2017, when it was surpassed by

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route in 2017, which has an average time in the air of 16 minutes. The ABE-PHL flights ended in 2020.

Facilities

The airport covers at an elevation of 393 feet (120 m). It has two

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: 6/24, 7,599 by 150 feet (2,316 x 46 m) and 13/31, 5,800 by 150 feet (1,768 x 46 m). The airport has nine gates to service the passengers. The airport has six holding spots for cargo aircraft. Mainly Boeing 757 cargo aircraft fly in and out of the airport for FedEx along with Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767s. In the year ending December 31, 2018 the airport had 75,231 aircraft operations, an average of 206 per day: 73%

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, 14% commercial airline, 12%

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, and <1% military. In May 2020, 137 aircraft were based at the airport: 73 single-engine, 11 multi-engine, 52 jet, and 1

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. In the year ending March 2020 the airport handled about of

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. The Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority also operates two nearby

airports, Allentown Queen City Municipal Airport in

and Braden Airpark in Easton.

Fire department

Aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) is provided by the LNAA ARFF Department, which consists of seven full-time and three part-time personnel, operating from a 13,000 sq.ft. facility commissioned in October 2003.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Cargo

uses the Lehigh Valley International Airport (LVIA) as one of only 11 locations in the country for their

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shipping service. LVIA was one of the first airports selected for the pilot concept of the program due to its close proximity to large population centers, cost-effectiveness, robust infrastructure, and comparative ease of use. This location now ships more merchandise, has more flights and serves more people (over 75 million from

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, as of late 2016) for Amazon than any other facility in the country. Both Amazon and LVIA continue to invest heavily in the local area to better support the ever-increasing demand for air cargo driven in large part by the explosive growth of

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and the need for faster, more efficient delivery of merchandise. Due to the same aforementioned reasons for Amazon increasing its operations at the airport,

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has selected an area near LVIA to construct its largest terminal in the country. ABE currently has six cargo parking spots for cargo operations. Former carriers *

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(November 2002–August 2012) * AirTran Airways (April 2009–August 2012) *

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, Air Toronto,

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(until 2012) * Trans World Airlines (November 1993-____) *

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* Frontier Airlines *

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, Allegheny Airlines *

* Continental Airlines,

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, Piedmont Connection * Presidential Airways * Colgan Airways * Suburban Airlines * Altair Airlines *Monmouth Airlines *Canadian Partners, Ontario Express *

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Bus service

Trans-Bridge Lines runs several daily buses from ABE to

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, stopping at both Newark (EWR) and New York (JFK) Airports. Travel time to EWR is about 75 minutes.

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also has a bus service to Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR). Continental Airlines, which later merged into United, previously operated flights from

to Newark but switched to a bus service in 1995 due to constant delays from

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. The distance is . , the service was eight times daily. Today, the service is offered three times daily. By February 2010, bus was the only form of service offered by Continental after it cancelled its Allentown to

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flights.

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operates a bus service to Philadelphia International Airport. LANta provides local bus service to the airport with routes 215 (

), 319 (

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-Bethlehem Square), and 325 (Allentown).

Statistics

Annual traffic

Carrier shares

Top destinations

Incidents and accidents

* On May 5, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 175, a

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en route to Washington National Airport, was hijacked by Frederick Hahneman. The plane eventually landed in Honduras after the hijacker parachuted in mid-flight with $300,000 in ransom money. There were no fatalities or injuries. * On September 19, 2008,

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Flight 7138,

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, was forced to make a high-speed aborted takeoff and swerve in order to avoid a collision with a Cessna 172 that had yet to exit the runway after landing. There were no fatalities or injuries. * On November 16, 2008,

Flight 4551, a

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de Havilland Dash 8 turboprop operated by

, took off from Lehigh Valley International Airport at 8:20 am heading to Philadelphia International Airport, and then had to make an

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. The flight crew indicated that the front nose gear had not come down, and the plane had to make a flyover of the

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for confirmation. All 35 passengers and three crew members were uninjured. * On June 27, 2009,

Flight 746, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft, made an emergency landing after flames were observed coming from the aircraft's left engine. The flight was bound for

. During takeoff, one of the aircraft's tires had shredded and a piece was sucked into the engine, causing it to fail and momentarily catch on fire. The airliner landed safely minutes later with no injuries reported.

Notable visits

In 1960, then U.S. Vice President

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and Senator

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made campaign stops at ABE. President George H. W. Bush visited ABE in 1992 onboard Air Force One, a

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(747). President

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made two campaign stops at ABE in May and October 2020.

References

External links

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