Mid Continent Air Express' service was replaced by Varney Speed Lines in 1934. TAT and WAE merged in 1930 to form Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA). At first the airlines operated from the Albuquerque Airport but within the first year had moved to the West Mesa Airport where they stayed for most of the 1930s decade. The first airlines to serve the airports were Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT), Western Air Express (WAE), and Mid Continent Air Express, all inaugurating service in 1929.

The Albuquerque Airport, later known as Oxnard Field, opened in 1928, and the West Mesa Airport, later known as the TWA airport, opened in 1929. See also: Old Albuquerque Municipal Airport BuildingĪlbuquerque was first served by two private airports. The low-lying structure and Pueblo Revival architecture of the airport reference Albuquerque's Tiquex and Hispano heritage and New Mexico's Pueblo and Nuevo México roots. It also includes regional gift shops and local eateries such as Black Mesa Coffee, Rio Grande Brew Pub & Grill, and New Mexican cuisine restaurants like Tia Juanita's and Comida Buena. Restaurants and shops within the airport include national brands like Hudson News and Book Sellers and Panda Express. The city is the center of the Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZAB), and the airport is designated Class C airspace with additional military operations area classification due to connected United States Air Force runways. Cargo airlines serving the airport are FedEx Express, UPS Airlines, Empire Airlines (a FedEx Feeder carrier), Ameriflight, Amazon Prime Air (operated by Silver Airways), and South Aero. The airport serves as a focus airport for Southwest Airlines and is also served with domestic commercial flights by Advanced Air, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Boutique Air, Delta Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue, Spirit Airlines and United Airlines. It is located in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, between the Rio Grande river and the Sandia Mountains, east of Old Town Albuquerque and Barelas, 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Downtown Albuquerque, south of the University of New Mexico and directly to the west of Sandia National Laboratories and Kirtland Air Force Base.

state of New Mexico, the Albuquerque metropolitan area, as well as the larger Albuquerque– Santa Fe– Las Vegas CSA, handling 5,467,693 passengers in 2018.

Albuquerque International Sunport ( IATA: ABQ, ICAO: KABQ, FAA LID: ABQ) is the primary international airport serving the U.S.

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