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Miami international airport map
Map of Miami international airport. Miami international airport map (Florida - USA) to print. Miami international airport map (Florida - USA) to download. Miami International Airport (IATA: MIA, ICAO: KMIA, FAA LID: MIA), also known as MIA and historically Wilcox Field, is the primary airport serving the South Florida area. The airport is in an unincorporated area in Miami-Dade County, Florida, eight miles (13 km) northwest of Downtown Miami, in metropolitan Miami, between the cities of Miami, Hialeah, Doral, Miami Springs, the village of Virginia Gardens, and the unincorporated Fountainebleau neighborhood as you can see in Miami international airport map. The airport is a hub for passenger airlines American Airlines, Executive Airlines under the American Eagle name; cargo airlines, UPS Airlines and FedEx Express; and charter airline Miami Air.
Miami International Airport is the largest gateway between the United States and Latin America, and is one of the largest airline hubs in the United States, owing to its proximity to tourist attractions, local economic growth, large local Latin American and European populations, and strategic location to handle connecting traffic between North America, Latin America, and Europe as its shown in Miami international airport map. In the past, it has been a hub for Braniff International Airways, Eastern Air Lines, Air Florida, the original National Airlines, the original Pan Am, United Airlines, and Iberia. Miami International is also the proposed hub of two new start-up airlines, one of which hopes to use the Eastern Airlines name. It is a focus airport for LAN Airlines and its subsidiaries, both for passengers and cargo operations.
Miami International Airport has passenger and cargo flights to cities throughout the Americas and Europe, as well as the Canary Islands off the African coast, and cargo flights to Asia; it is South Florida main airport for long-haul international flights. In 2011 the airport ranked first in the United States by percentage of international flights and second by volume of international passengers, behind only New York-JFK. In 2011, 38,314,389 passengers traveled through the airport, making the airport the 25th-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic as its mentioned in Miami international airport map. The Airport also ranks as the 12th busiest airport in the United States by annual passenger count and is the busiest airport in the state of Florida. The airport also handled more international cargo than any other airport in the United States.
Miami International Airport covers an area of 3,300 acres (1,335 ha) which contains four runways as you can see in Miami international airport map: Runway 8L/26R: 8,600 x 150 ft (2,621 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt, Runway 8R/26L: 10,506 x 200 ft (3,202 x 61 m), Surface: Asphalt, Runway 9/27: 13,000 x 150 ft (3,962 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt, Runway 12/30: 9,354 x 150 ft (2,851 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt. For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2009, the airport had 358,705 aircraft operations, an average of 982 per day: 82% scheduled commercial, 12% air taxi, 5% general aviation and <1% military. There are 28 aircraft based at this airport: 46% multi-engine and 54% jet. Fire protection at the airport is provided by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department Station 12.