Glacier Park International Airport

Glacier Park International Airport; IATA: FCA, ICAO: KGPI, FAA LID: GPI, is a public airport located in Flathead County, Montana. The airport is approximately 6 miles northeast of Kalispell. FCA is under the public ownership, and the Flathead Municipal Airport Authority operates it. The Flathead county created this federal agency in 1974.

Glacier Park International Airport

General Information

Glacier Park International Airport; IATA: FCA, ICAO: KGPI, FAA LID: GPI, is a public airport located in Flathead County, Montana. The airport is approximately 6 miles northeast of Kalispell. FCA is under the public ownership, and the Flathead Municipal Airport Authority operates it. The Flathead county created this federal agency in 1974.

History

Glacier Park International Airport was built in 1942. The original name of the airport was Flathead County Airport, from which today IATA code was derived. From 1950 Northwest Airlines started operating flights at FCA, but for many years there was no significant passenger traffic. By the time of 1970, the airport became international, and in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the passenger amount increased. After the airport started serving international flights, many airlines such as Hughes Airwest, Western Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Horizon Air also began their service at FCA.

iN 1981 the airport administration upgraded the terminal, and later in the 1990s, they also renovated the runways and other facilities.

Capacity

Glacier Park International Airport covers 1,525 acres, which is approximately 617 HA. The airport thas two runways, both of them have an asphalt surface. One of them is 9,006 feet long when another one is 3,504 feet in length.

According to the statistics given by the Federal Aviation Administration, in 2007, FCA had 51,925 aircraft operations, 142 transfers per day. At that time, there were 159 based aircraft at the airport, including 3% helicopter, 3% jet, 16% multi-engine, and 78% single-engine. In the year 2011, Glacier Park International Airport served 355,927 passengers in total.