Maine became Northeast Airlines,
which eventually merged with
Delta Air Lines in 1972.
K
MHT Manchester – Boston
Regional Airport Manchester,
NH
Manchester–Boston Regional
Airport (IATA: MHT, ICAO:
KMHT, FAA LID: MHT),
commonly referred to as
Manchester Airport, is a public
airport 3 miles south of the central
business district of Manchester,
New Hampshire, on the border
of Hillsborough and Rockingham
counties. The airport lies in two
communities, Manchester and
Londonderry.
and all American airports were
required to close.
Throughout the 1990s, Manchester
outpaced almost every other
similarly-sized airport in terms
of passenger growth. In 2003,
Runway 17/35 was extended from
7,001 feet (2,134 m) to 9,250 feet
(2,820 m), allowing non-stop
service to Las Vegas.
In April 2006, the aldermen of
the city of Manchester voted to
change the name of the airport
to “Manchester–Boston Regional
Airport” in an effort to increase its
visibility to travelers around the
Founded in 1927, it moved more
than 1 million passengers in a
year for the first time in 1997. It
handled 3.72 million passengers
in 2008, down from its all-time
high of 4.33 million in 2005. It
remains New England’s fourthlargest airport by passenger
volume, behind Boston Logan
in Massachusetts, Bradley
International in Connecticut, and
T. F. Green in Rhode Island.
Certified for Cat III B Instrument
Landing operations, the airport
has a reputation for never
surrendering to bad weather. The
airport has closed only once, when
the national airspace was shut
down for two days following the
September 11 terrorist attacks,
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