Sunday, February 12, 2017

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

TWA at KSTL:


Lambert Airport was a major TWA hub. The city built a third runway (wiping out most of a town) to accommodate increased traffic and Illinois built an airport not far away in Belleville to suck traffic from relieve congestion at Lambert, which was handling 30 million passengers a year.

But then American Airlines took over TWA and wiped it out of existence. The hub of TWA's routes was moved to O'Hare. The Belleville airport was without airline service for a number of years. Allegiant now flies maybe a dozen or so flights a week out of Belleville. The new runway at Lambert is rarely used. Lambert nowadays handles about 13 million passengers a year; Southwest is the predominant carrier. Belleville handles maybe one-one-hundredth as many passengers
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3 comments:

  1. Old NFO2/12/2017 1:51 PM

    Made a many a connection there flying back to DC from the left coast during my Navy Days... One helluva good Bloody Mary at the Ambassador's Club there too!

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  2. 2minw2/12/2017 7:07 PM

    lived northeast of Lambert in the 50's --- noise from propeller planes (DC4's, Electra's, Constellations) was livable - Boeing 707 and McDonell Phantom jet noise plain woke you up even if you were awake

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  3. BOB PAGE2/12/2017 9:37 PM

    I worked the 7-2 with the Rams helmet paint job on several occasions while I was at TPA. It was good to see it again.

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