John Wayne Airport
John Wayne Airport
John Wayne Airport (IATA: SNA , ICAO:
KSNA, FAA LID: SNA) is an international
airport in Orange County, California, United States, with its mailing address
in the city of Santa Ana, hence the IATA airport code. The entrance to the
airport is off MacArthur Blvd in Irvine, the city that borders the airport on
the north and east. Newport Beach and Costa Mesa form the southern and western
boundaries along with a small unincorporated area along the Corona del Mar (73)
Freeway. Santa Ana is just north, not actually touching the airport. Originally
named Orange County Airport, the county Board of Supervisors renamed it in 1979
to honor actor John Wayne, who lived in neighboring Newport Beach and died that
year.
The National Plan of Integrated
Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service
airport since it has over 10,000 passenger boardings per year. Federal Aviation Administration records say
the airport had 4,584,147 enplanements in calendar year 2014, an increase from
4,450,628 in 2013.
John Wayne International Airport is
the sole commercial airport in Orange County. General aviation operations
outnumber commercial operations and several facilities at the airport serve the
general aviation and corporate aviation community. The other general aviation
airport in the county is Fullerton Municipal Airport. Other commercial airports
nearby are Hollywood Burbank Airport, Long Beach Airport, Los Angeles
International Airport and Ontario International Airport. In 2014, John Wayne
Airport was the second busiest airport in the Greater Los Angeles area (by
passenger count) with over 9 million total passengers.
As of 2015, the largest airlines at
John Wayne Airport were Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, United Airlines,
Alaska Airlines, and Delta Air Lines.
The main runway, at 5,701 feet (1,738
m), is one of the shortest of any major airport in the United States, and
passenger airliners at the airport have never been larger than the Boeing 757.
(Some larger cargo aircraft fly from SNA, such as the FedEx A310/300.) Some
gates are built to handle planes up to the size of a Boeing 767, which could
operate with payload/fuel load restrictions. No wide-body passenger airliners
have ever been scheduled at SNA.
John Wayne Airport is 14 miles (23 km)
from Orange County's main attraction – the Disneyland Resort. (Los Angeles
International Airport is 35 miles (56 km) from Disneyland.)
A statue of John Wayne, the airport's
eponym, welcomes passengers in the arrivals area on the lower level.
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