Orlando Airport - Orlando International Airport
- MCO
Orlando International Airport is the number
one gateway to sunny Florida. Whether you are traveling
for business or pleasure, Orlando International
Airport is easily accessible to all major Florida
cities, business centers, attractions, and world
famous beaches. MCO Orlando International Airport
serves over 30-million domestic passengers each
year - more than any other Florida airport. Orlando
Airport serves the greatest travel destination in
the world,
Orlando,
Florida.
 Orlando
International Airport is served by more than 80
airlines and has scheduled service to 69 U.S. destinations
and 27 international destinations. MCO Orlando Airport
is home to 44 shops and services, 20 restaurants,
6 bars, a micro-brewery and a hotel. Over 80,000
passengers use this award-winning airport each day.
Orlando International Airport serves as a hub
for AirTran Airways and a focus city for Southwest
Airlines, and JetBlue Airways. The airport hosts
AirTran's corporate headquarters and operations
center, though the airline maintains its main hub
of operations at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International
Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Southwest Airlines
is currently Orlando International Airport's largest
carrier in terms of passengers traveled; SWA carried
one-fifth of all passenger traffic at MCO in 2006.
They will increase their presence at the airport
once they complete their merger with AirTran. The
airport code MCO stands for the airport's former
name, McCoy Air Force Base, a Strategic Air Command
(SAC) installation named for Colonel Michael Norman
Wright McCoy, USAF, commander of the 321st Bombardment
Wing at the then-Pinecastle Air Force Base. In the
early 1960s, with the advent of commercial jet airline
service to the Orlando area, the installation became
a joint civil-military facility. Following the Vietnam
War, McCoy AFB was identified for closure and all
permanent party Air Force flight operations ceased
in early 1975. The facility was briefly known as
Orlando-McCoy Jetport until being renamed as
Orlando International Airport.
|
