Shreveport Regional Airport

Shreveport Regional Airport: IATA: SHV; ICAO: KSHV; FAA LID: SHV, is a public airport located in Shreveport, In Louisiana, United States. The airport is seven kilometers southwest of the central business district of the city. Shreveport Regional Airport is classified as a "small hub" airport by the Federal Aviation Administration. For the years of 2011-2012, SHV was in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, as a primary commercial service airport.

Shreveport Regional Airport

General Information

Shreveport Regional Airport: IATA: SHV; ICAO: KSHV; FAA LID: SHV, is a public airport located in Shreveport, In Louisiana, United States. The airport is seven kilometers southwest of the central business district of the city. Shreveport Regional Airport is classified as a "small hub" airport by the Federal Aviation Administration. For the years of 2011-2012, SHV was in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, as a primary commercial service airport.

History

Throughout the history of the airport, there were several airlines serving jet service at Shreveport Regional Airport. The dominant player in this field was Delta Air Lines, operating 33 flights a day. For the year of 1979, Delta timetable showed ten daily non-stop, direct jet services to Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Little Rock, Birmingham, MS, Jackson, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge.

Other airlines, operating at Shreveport Regional Airport included Frontier Airlines with its Boeing 737-200, flying non-stop, direct flights to Dallas, Fort Worth; Braniff International serving flights to New Orleans, Kansas City, Tulsa, Minneapolis, Chicago; Texas International Airlines serving flights from 1970; American Airlines, and many more.

The airport history goes back to 1931, but the main renovation and expansion happened in the 1970s when the airport added a new terminal, concourses, and administration building, along with parking spaces.

Capacity

Shreveport Regional Airport is spanned on 1,625 acres, which is approximately 658 HA. At an elevation, SHV is on 258 feet above sea level. The airport has two asphalt runways. One of them is 8,351 feet long, and the other one is 6,202 feet in length.

According to statistics from the Federal Aviation Administration, in the year of 2018, Shreveport Regional Airport served 629,309 passengers in total, making 41007 operations in the whole year. By that time, there were 62 based aircraft at Shreveport Regional Airport, including two helicopters, 24 jet, 14 multi-engine, and 22 single-engine.