Philadelphia International Airport

Philadelphia International Airport is an airport located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a hub of US Airways and has the IATA Airport Code PHL.

The airport has service to other destinations in the United States, as well as Canada, Latin America, and Europe. Philadelphia International Airport has a relatively large airport mall between concourses B and C. SEPTA stations at Terminals A, B, C and D, and E provide passengers a fast and traffic-free connection between the airport and central Philadelphia. SEPTA designates the Airport Line as the R1 Regional Rail Line.

Table of contents

1 History
2 Layout

2.1 Concourse A West
2.2 Concourse A East
2.3 Concourse B
2.4 Concourse C
2.5 Concourse D
2.6 Concourse E
2.7 Concourse F

3 Ground transportation
4 External Links

History

Starting in 1925, the Pennsylvania Air National Guard used the PHL site as a training field for its pilots. The site was dedicated as the "Philadelphia Municipal Airport" by Charles Lindbergh in 1927. However, there was no proper terminal building until 1940, so airlines used an airfield in nearby Camden, New Jersey. Once the terminal was completed, four airlines (American, Eastern, TWA, and United) started flights to the airport. Philadelphia Municipal became Philadelphia International in 1945, when American Overseas Airways began flights to Europe.

US Airways became the dominant carrier at PHL through the 1980s and 1990s. In 2004, its dominance was challenged when Southwest Airlines announced it would begin flights from PHL to several key airports in the Southeast, challenging US Airways in most of the major's important north-south markets.