Delta Air Lines started nonstop flights to Atlanta and Harrisburg in 1991 and later added flights to Cincinnati, initially operated by Delta until changing to Delta Connection carrier Comair. Regional partners replaced successor Northwest around 2003.
Northwest also offered one-stop flights to Detroit with a stop in Harrisburg. Republic Airlines' DC-9's offered nonstop flights to Detroit and were continued by Northwest Airlines after Northwest's acquisition of Republic. TWA left in 1967, replaced by Allegheny Airlines Colonial's successor Eastern Air Lines remained until 1991. DC-4s and DC-6s appeared after runway 6 was extended to 5,000 feet. Allentown–Bethlehem–Easton (ABE) Airport, as it was then called, had flights on United, Trans World Airlines since 1947, and Colonial Airlines since 1949–50. The October 1946 command and general staff diagram shows four runways forming an asterisk: runway feet long, runway feet, runway feet and runway feet.Ĭonstruction on a new passenger terminal began in 1948 and was finished in 1950. In April 1946, the Lehigh Airport Authority was created to own and manage the airport. 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. 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 late July, the War Production Board approved the construction of a second story addition to the administration building. About 1,000 Naval Aviation Cadets were trained in 1943, and civil and military air traffic had increased. Allentown CAP pilots also patrolled the Atlantic coastline and were active in recruiting young men for the United States Army Air Forces's air cadet program.īy January 1944, work on a new runway was completed and a Class A United States Weather Bureau station had been installed. One of its activities was to provide a courier service for cargo defense plants. In addition, the headquarters of Group 312 of the Civil Air Patrol was at Allentown–Bethlehem Airport. Navy's V-5 flight training program was conducted at the airport in conjunction with ground training held at Muhlenberg College in nearby Allentown. The first terminal building at the airport was built in 1938 as part of a Works Progress Administration project.ĭuring World War II, the U.S. The airport hangar initially served as the passenger terminal. Scheduled airline flights began on Septemwith flights by United Airlines' Boeing 247s. Lehigh Valley International Airport opened in 1929. The airport is about 75 miles (121 km) from Philadelphia International Airport, 80 miles (130 km) from Newark Liberty International Airport, and 55 miles (89 km) from Trenton–Mercer Airport.Īir traffic control tower at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Hanover Township, February 2015 Companies such as are using the airport, a major factor in its growth. As of 2016, the airport ships more than 126 million pounds of cargo annually with growth of nearly 166% in cargo tonnage shipped between 20. The airport has become popular for the transportation of air cargo due to growth of e-commerce and its close proximity to major population centers on the East Coast. Lehigh Valley International Airport is the fourth busiest airport in Pennsylvania behind the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg international airports and the only public airport located in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania's third most populous metropolitan region with a population of 861,899 as of the 2020 U.S. Lehigh Valley International Airport is located in the center of the Lehigh Valley, roughly 7 miles (11 km) north-northeast of Allentown, 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Bethlehem, and 11 miles (18 km) west-southwest of Easton. Lehigh Valley International Airport ( IATA: ABE, ICAO: KABE, FAA LID: ABE) (formerly Allentown–Bethlehem–Easton International Airport) is a domestic airport located in Hanover Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. Sources: airport website, transtats, and FAA
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