Albuquerque International Sunport - Facilities and Aircraft

Facilities and Aircraft

Albuquerque International Sunport Airport covers an area of 2,039 acres (825 ha) which contains four runways. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 192,520 aircraft operations, an average of 527 per day: 41% scheduled commercial, 23% air taxi, 23% general aviation and 16% military. There are 322 aircraft based at this airport: 33% multi-engine, 30% single-engine, 18% military, 13% jet and 7% helicopter. ABQ's terminal, which was expanded to its present size in the late 1980s and again in 1996, encompasses 574,000 sq ft (53,300 m²). of space. The airport has a Pueblo Revival style passenger terminal which houses two concourses and an area for commuter airline gates. The count of passengers at the Sunport has seen an average per year increase of 2% over the last 15 years.

The largest passenger aircraft normally scheduled into the Albuquerque International Sunport is the Boeing 757, operated by Delta Air Lines on flights to and from Atlanta during the spring and summer months, and during the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in October; Delta also uses the 757 to Minneapolis during this time. United also uses a 757 on the first flight of the day to Denver during Thanksgiving time. The largest overall aircraft the Sunport usually sees is a UPS Airbus A300 to Louisville and Ontario. In the past, however, the airport has seen regularly scheduled Lockheed L-1011 service operated by Trans World Airlines.

More recent data from the FAA shows the annual operations for the five year period from 2005–2009 are:

2005: 196,699; 2006: 192,241; 2007: 190,780; 2008: 180,553; 2009: 158,529

The airport's freight center moved 67,000 tons of cargo in 2008.