Facilities and Aircraft
Shreveport Regional Airport covers an area of 1,625 acres (658 ha) at an elevation of 258 feet (79 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 14/32 is 8,351 by 200 feet (2,545 x 61 m) and 5/23 is 6,202 by 150 feet (1,890 x 46 m).
The airport opened a $30 million cargo terminal in 2009, serving as an anchor for the Aero Park Industrial Park. Cargo tenants include UPS, FedEx, Integrated Airline Solutions USA Jet and Empire Airlines.
The recently renovated terminal now features wireless access and a restaurant between the two security checkpoints. The airport is also an alternate destination for American Airlines flights that cannot land at Dallas-Fort Worth Int'l and United Airlines that cannot land it Houston Intercontinental Airport due to bad weather. Shreveport is also the home to the maintenance hangar for regional feeder ExpressJet Airlines for its fleet of Embraer aircraft.
For the 12-month period ending February 28, 2009, the airport had 56,713 aircraft operations, an average of 155 per day: 54% air taxi, 38% general aviation and 9% military. At that time there were 64 aircraft based at this airport: 41% single-engine, 28% multi-engine, 28% jet and 3% helicopter.
Shreveport Regional Airport was awarded the "2009 Louisiana Airport of the Year." It is Shreveport's third time winning the award.
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