Mid America St. Louis Airport
MidAmerica St. Louis Airport (IATA: BLV, ICAO: KBLV, FAA LID: BLV) is a public use airport co-located on the grounds of Scott Air Force Base. It is located 14 nautical miles (16 mi, 26 km) east of the central business district of Belleville, in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States.
MidAmerica has operated as a Joint Use Airport since beginning operations in November 1997 and has not been served by any commercial airlines since Allegiant Air pulled out of the airport on January 3, 2009.
However, Allegiant Air advertisements dated August 21, 2012, state that the company will resume operations with direct flights between MidAmerica St. Louis Airport and Orlando Sanford International Airport starting November 7, 2012.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 27,002 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 1,964 enplanements in 2009, and 1,183 in 2010. It was included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport based on enplanements in 2008 (more than 10,000 per year).
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