Hopkins International Airport

Hopkins International Airport is an airport located approximately ten miles southwest of Cleveland, Ohio.

Named after former City Manager William Hopkins, it was founded in 1925 - the first municipally owned airport in the United States. The airport has been the site of many airport firsts - the first airfield lighting system and the first air traffic control tower - both in 1930 - and the first U.S. airport to be connected to a rail mass transit system - in 1968.

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport handled 10,555,387 passengers in 2003. The airport is hub to Continental Airlines and has the IATA Airport Code CLE.

Here are a list of airlines that fly to Hopkins International:

Transit connections

As noted above, Hopkins International Airport is connected to Cleveland's mass transit system. Passengers can board Red Line trains at the airport terminal.

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