Tampa International Airport Information
Tampa International Airport (IATA: TPA) is a major public airport located six nautical miles (11 km) west of the central business district of Tampa, in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. This airport is publicly owned by Hillsborough County Aviation Authority.
Tampa Bay was the birthplace of commercial airline service, when pioneer aviator Tony Jannus flew the inaugural flight of the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line on January 1, 1914, from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Tampa using a Benoist Flying Boat — the first scheduled commercial airline flight in the world using a heavier-than-air airplane.
The United States Army Air Force took over Drew Field during World War II and expanded and modernized the airport. The airfield was used by Third Air Force and renamed it Drew Army Airfield.
Here are some of the major Airlines that service Tampa International Airport:
- Air Canada
- AirTran Airways
- American Airlines
- British Airways
- Cayman Airways
- Continental Airlines
- Continental Connection operated by Gulfstream International Airlines
- Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines
- Delta Air Lines
- Delta Connection operated by Comair
- Delta Connection operated by Mesaba Airlines
- Frontier Airlines
- Frontier Airlines operated by Republic Airlines
- JetBlue Airways
- Southwest Airlines
- Spirit Airlines
- Sun Country Airlines
- United Airlines
- US Airways
- WestJet
This information was source by Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_International_Airport