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Glacier Park International Airport is in Flathead County, Montana, six miles northeast of Kalispell.〔 The airport is owned and operated by the Flathead Municipal Airport Authority, a public agency created by the county in 1974. The airport's ICAO code was KFCA, and most airlines still use that code for reservations purposes. Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Glacier Park International Airport is GPI to the FAA and FCA to the IATA (which assigned GPI to Guapi Airport in Colombia. ==History== The airport was built in 1942 as Flathead County Airport. Airline flights started around 1950, on Northwest; traffic remained low for years. In 1970 the airport was designated for international traffic and got the current name. In the 1970s and 1980s traffic picked up, as Hughes Airwest (previously Air West), Western Airlines, Delta Airlines (which acquired Western), the original Frontier Airlines and Horizon Air offered new jet service. Past types include the Boeing 727-200, Boeing 737-200, Boeing 757-200, Douglas DC-9-30 and Fokker F28. The terminal was upgraded in 1981, and upgrades to the terminal, runways and other facilities occurred in the 1990s. Between 1974 and 1998 passenger traffic increased more than fivefold. () Service to Phoenix, Arizona on US Airways (formerly America West Airlines before it merged with US Airways) ended in 2007. West Coast Airlines served the airport in the 1960s with Fairchild F-27s to Spokane, Seattle and Great Falls before this carrier merged with Bonanza Airlines and Pacific Air Lines to form Air West which continued F-27 service from Kalispell. Air West became Hughes Airwest which introduced Douglas DC-9-30s. The original Frontier Airlines operated Boeing 737-200s in the 1970s Kalispell-Missoula-Bozeman-Salt Lake City-Denver-St. Louis. By the 1980s, Frontier continued to operate Boeing 737-200s Kalispell-Billings-Denver. In the 1990s, Horizon Air, a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, flew Fokker F28s to Spokane and Seattle in addition to operating de Havilland DHC-8 "Dash 8"s, Dornier 328s and Fairchild Swearingen Metroliners. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glacier Park International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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