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Indianapolis International Airport

Indianapolis International Airport (IATA: IND, ICAO: KIND, FAA LID: IND) is a public airport located seven miles southwest of the central business district of Indianapolis, a city in Marion County, Indiana, United States. It is owned by the Indianapolis Airport Authority and is presently operated by British airport operator BAA. The airport is the largest in Indiana and a major hub for FedEx. This facility occupies approximately 7,700 acres, about 12 square miles, of land in Wayne and Decatur Townships of Marion County, all within the city of Indianapolis, Indiana. It is also a focus city for AirTran Airways and Northwest Airlines. As of 2006, it was the only commercial airport in the United States to be completely managed by a private firm; however, the management contract is in the process of being terminated, as BAA's new ownership opted not to bid on an extension.

Address for the Indianapolis International Airport

Indianapolis International Airport (IND)
2500 South High School Rd., Suite 100
Indianapolis, Indiana 46241–4941
United States of America

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Contact Information for the Indianapolis International Airport

	GUEST SERVICES: 1-317-487-7243 (Call for general information and paging) Hours are Monday–Friday, 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday–Sunday, 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.
	AIRPORT POLICE: 1-317-487-5084
	ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES: 1-317-487-9594 Hours are Monday–Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. All inquiries will be answered Monday through Friday between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
	Questions about airline tickets: If you want information about the purchase, price, flight days and times, and baggage issues, please contact the airline company of your choice: Air Canada 1-800-247-2262 AirTran 1-800-547-8726 American Airlines 1-800-433-7300 Cape Air 1-800-352-0714 Continental Airlines 1-800-523-3273 Delta Airlines 1-800-221-1212 Frontier Airlines 1-800-432-1359 Midwest Airlines 1-800-452-2022 Northwest Airlines 1-800-225-2525 Southwest Airlines 1-800-435-9792 United Airlines 1-800-864-8331 U.S. Airways 1-800-428-4322

Official Website for the Indianapolis International Airport

http://www.indianapolisairport.com

Getting to the Indianapolis International Airport
Below are directions to IND. Due to the variety of roads traveled on to get to the airport, please double check with another source before traveling.

From the South: (From Scottsburg)
Merge onto I-65 N.
Merge onto I-465 W / I-74 W via EXIT 106.
Take EXIT 11B toward INDIANAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
Merge onto AIRPORT EXPY.
At S HIGH SCHOOL RD follow the signs to the appropriate destination.

	From the North: (From Muncie) Merge onto I-69 S via the ramp on the LEFT. Merge onto I-465 S / US-421 S / US-52 E / IN-37 S via EXIT 0. Merge onto I-70 W via EXIT 44A toward INDIANAPOLIS. Merge onto I-70 W via EXIT 110B toward ST. LOUIS. Merge onto AIRPORT EXPY via EXIT 75 toward INDIANAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. At S HIGH SCHOOL RD follow the signs to the appropriate destination.
	(From Lafayette) Merge onto I-65 S. Keep RIGHT to take I-465 S via EXIT 123 toward INDIANAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. Take EXIT 11B toward INDPLS. INT'LAIRPORT. Merge onto AIRPORT EXPY. At S HIGH SCHOOL RD follow the signs to the appropriate destination.
	From the East: (From Greenfield) Merge onto I-70 W via the ramp on the LEFT. Merge onto I-70 W via EXIT 110B toward ST. LOUIS. Merge onto AIRPORT EXPY via EXIT 75 toward INDIANAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. At S HIGH SCHOOL RD follow the signs to the appropriate destination.
	From the West: (From Crawfordsville) Merge onto I-74 E. Merge onto I-465 S / I-74 E via EXIT 73A. Take EXIT 11B toward INDIANAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. Merge onto AIRPORT EXPY. At S HIGH SCHOOL RD follow the signs to the appropriate destination.

From Downtown Indianapolis
Merge onto I-70 W.
Merge onto AIRPORT EXPY via EXIT 75 toward INDIANAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
At S HIGH SCHOOL RD follow the signs to the appropriate destination.

New Terminal / Future Plans for the Indianapolis International Airport
A state-of-the-art, 1.2 million square foot midfield passenger terminal is currently being constructed between Indianapolis International Airport's two main parallel runways, to the southwest of the existing facilities and the crosswind runway. A new FAA Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) and Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRAC) building, 3rd tallest in the United States, opened in April 2006. The remaining portions of this new terminal complex are scheduled to open to the public in late 2008.

The airport's master plan also calls for a fourth (third parallel) runway to be built southeast of I-70 at some point in the future. Between 2002 and 2004, the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) realigned and rebuilt a portion of this Interstate highway running through the south end of the airport's property. The reconfigured freeway was constructed to allow a future taxiway bridge serving the proposed fourth runway to cross overhead, as well as to provide a new traffic interchange to serve the midfield terminal complex currently under construction. This I-70 exit will soon become the airport's new main entrance, replacing the current "front door" at Sam Jones (nee Airport) Expressway and High School Road. Provisions have also been made to allow for future Light Rail Transit (LRT) access to the new terminal complex.

Airlines and Destinations at the Indianapolis International Airport
Concourse A (Gates A1-A8)
Northwest Airlines Gates A1-A8 (Cancún [seasonal], Denver [seasonal], Detroit, Fort Lauderdale [seasonal], Fort Myers [seasonal], Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York-LaGuardia, Orlando, San Francisco [seasonal], Seattle/Tacoma [seasonal], Tampa, Washington-Reagan [seasonal])
Northwest Airlink operated by Pinnacle Airlines (Boston, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Hartford, Kansas City, Memphis, New York-LaGuardia, Philadelphia, Raleigh/Durham, Washington-Reagan)

Concourse B (Gates B1-B6)
American Airlines Gates B1, B2 (Chicago-O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth)
AmericanConnection operated by Trans States Airlines (St. Louis)
American Eagle (Chicago-O'Hare, Miami)
Delta Air Lines Gates B4-B6 (Atlanta)
Delta Connection operated by Chautauqua Airlines (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, New York-JFK)
Delta Connection operated by Comair (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, New York-JFK)
Delta Connection operated by Shuttle America (Atlanta, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky)

Concourse C (Gates C1-C10)
AirTran Airways Gates C1, C2, C4, C10 (Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Las Vegas [begins December 20], Los Angeles [seasonal], New Orleans [begins February 16], Orlando, San Francisco [seasonal], Sarasota/Bradenton, Tampa)
Cape Air (Evansville, South Bend)
Continental Airlines Gates C5-C7 (Houston-Intercontinental, Newark)
Continental Connection operated by CommutAir (Cleveland)
Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Cleveland, Houston-Intercontinental, Newark)
Continental Express operated by Chautauqua Airlines (Cleveland)
Frontier Airlines Gate C3 (Cancún [seasonal], Denver)
Midwest Airlines Gate C1
Midwest Connect operated by Skyway Airlines (Milwaukee)
Southwest Airlines Gates C8, C9 (Baltimore/Washington, Chicago-Midway, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Orlando, Phoenix, Tampa)

Concourse D (Gates D1-D10)
Air Canada Gate D8
Air Canada Jazz (Toronto-Pearson)
United Airlines Gates D7 - D10 (Chicago-O'Hare, Denver)
United Express operated by Chautauqua Airlines (Washington-Dulles)
United Express operated by Shuttle America (Denver, Chicago-O'Hare, Washington-Dulles)
United Express operated by SkyWest (Chicago-O'Hare, Denver [seasonal])
US Airways Gates D1 - D6 (Charlotte, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Washington-Reagan)
US Airways Express operated by Air Wisconsin (Boston, Charlotte, New York-LaGuardia, Philadelphia, Washington-Reagan)
US Airways Express operated by Republic Airlines (Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington-Reagan)
US Airways Express operated by Chautauqua Airlines (Charlotte, New York-LaGuardia, Washington-Reagan)
US Airways Express operated by PSA Airlines (Charlotte, Philadelphia)
US Airways Express operated by Mesa Airlines (Charlotte)

History of the Indianapolis International Airport
Before it got its International designation in 1975, Indianapolis' primary commercial air passenger and cargo facility was called Weir-Cook Airport, after Col. Harvey Weir-Cook of Wilkinson, Indiana, who was a US Army Air Forces pilot in World War I and World War II, where he was killed while flying a P-39 over New Caledonia. He was a flying ace during WWI, with seven victories. The airport opened in 1931 and the name was changed to Weir-Cook in 1944. Since 1962 it has been owned and operated by the Indianapolis Airport Authority (IAA), a eight-member governing board with members appointed by the Mayor of Indianapolis and certain other officials from Marion, Hendricks, and Hamilton counties in central Indiana. The present name was bestowed by the IAA in 1975.

The current terminal opened in 1957 and has been renovated and expanded many times, most notably in 1968 (Concourses A & B), 1972 (Concourse D), and 1987 (Concourse C and the attached Parking Structure). This entire complex, along with the separate International Arrivals Terminal located on the north side of the airfield (off Pierson Drive), will become obsolete once the new Midfield Passenger Terminal currently under construction becomes operational in late 2008.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, USAir (now US Airways) maintained a secondary hub in Indianapolis, with non-stop jet service to locations on the west coast and Florida as well as turbo-prop service to cities throughout the Midwest. With 146 daily departures US Airways was the dominant carrier accounting for 49% of all seats. In the late 1990s, US Airways substantially reduced its service out of Indianapolis.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Indianapolis International Airport became a focus city for ATA Airlines and its regional affiliate, Chicago Express/ATA Connection. However, after the airline entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in late 2004, operations at IND were drastically cut, and service from IND was totally eliminated in 2006. ATA's demise at Indianapolis gave Northwest Airlines the space it needed to grow.