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MacArthur Airport (IATA: ISP, ICAO: KISP) is located on Long Island in the Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York. Also referred to as Long Island MacArthur Airport, it is the only airport in Suffolk or Nassau County with scheduled service on major airlines. It serves 1.1 million passengers a year and is popular with Long Island residents who wish to avoid the traffic and hassle of Kennedy and LaGuardia in New York or Newark Airport in New Jersey.
History
The airport began in 1942 as three paved runways built by the Civil Aeronautics Administration (predecessor of the Federal Aviation Administration) during World War II. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation built the first hangar at the airport in 1944. The Town of Islip built a terminal in 1949, after taking the airport back from the Army Air Corps at the end of the war. Through the 1950s, MacArthur was used by Sperry Corporation for aviation research. Allegheny Airlines was its first commercial airline in 1960, offering flights to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington. The Douglas MacArthur terminal was completed in 1968 and American Airlines began operating non-stop flights to Chicago in 1971.
Airlines
- Atlantic Southeast Airlines dba Delta Connection (Atlanta)
- Colgan Air dba US Airways Express (Boston)
- Commutair dba Continental Connection (Albany, Boston)
- Piedmont Airlines dba US Airways Express (Philadelphia)
- Southwest Airlines (Baltimore/Washington, Chicago Midway, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Las Vegas, Nashville, Orlando, Tampa, West Palm Beach)
- ATA Airlines has a codeshare with Southwest Airlines on some Las Vegas, Baltimore, and Chicago routes to/from Long Island.
- Comair announces as part of Delta's reorganization to end service from Islip to Cincinnati leaving Delta's presence down to 4 flights a day to Atlanta.
Peter J. McGowan Concourse
On August 4, 2004, Southwest Airlines moved into its own gate area named for current Islip town supervisor Peter J. McGowan. It consists of a pub, a small food court, a CNBC store, four brand new gates, shops and eateries. The new concourse and gates are separate from the rest of the MacArthur Airport terminal. Southwest is currently adding four additional gates to the airport to bring their total to eight gates by summer 2006.The airport is set up with arrivals to the left of the main entrance and parking area, and departures (along with the newly built concourse) to the right.
As of September 2005, the newly formed "Committee to Rename MacArthur Airport Concourse" is calling on the Town of Islip to change the name of MacArthur Airport's Peter J. McGowan Concourse to Veterans Concourse in honor of its servicemen and women [1].
Ground transportation
Ground transportation is primarily accomplished through individuals driving or being dropped off at the airport and by shuttles that connect the airport with the nearby Long Island Rail Road station in Ronkonkoma. Also, taxi and limousine service are also easily available.
External links
- MacArthur Airport (official site)
- MacArthur Airport Facts
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KISP
- ASN accident history for ISP
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for KISP
- FAA current ISP delay information