Brownsville/South Padre International Airport (IATA: BRO , ICAO: KBRO , FAA LID: BRO ) is a city, a public airport located four nautical miles (7 km) east of Brownsville's business district center, a town in Cameron County, Texas, United States.
The airport is served by two commercial airlines, six air taxis and offers three fixed-based operations (FBO) for general aviation. It is a convenient airport to fly to the Rio Grande Valley and northern Mexico. Most of the city in the Rio Grande Valley is accessible from BRO by car within 30-60 minutes via the US 77, US 83, Interstate 69E and Interstate 2 freeway routes. It is also the nearest commercial airport to South Padre Island.
The airport is included in the National Integrated Airport System Plan for 2011-2015, which is categorized as a premier commercial services facility . According to Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport has 82,723 boarding passengers (enplanements) in 2008 calendar year, 80,350 enplanements in 2009, and 84,401 in 2010.
The National Weather Service forecasting offices for southern Texas is located in the airport grounds. The current airport has scheduled nonstop passenger flights to two destinations in Texas: Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) and Houston (IAH). The new nonstop passenger jet service scheduled to Las Vegas operated by Allegiant Air begins in June 2015; however, Allegiant Air then stops all flights from the airport and no longer serves Brownsville.
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Brownsville is historically the main terminal for air services between the United States and Mexico. In 1929, Pan American World Airways acquired a controlling stake in Mexicana de AviaciÃÆ'³n and started the Ford Trimotor service between Brownsville and Mexico City, which eventually expanded to the Yucatan Peninsula to connect with the Caribbean route network of Pan Am. On March 9, Charles Lindbergh inaugurated the service, landed at BRO after five hours, 38 minutes flight from Mexico City. An event was held on the site in the honor of Lindbergh, with a crowd of over 20,000 welcoming him upon his arrival. Among the audience was Amelia Earhart, for whom the main road in front of the Airport was named. Brownsville became an early hub for technical development in instrument navigation ("blind flying") due to bad weather conditions pilots encountered in the mountains above Mexico.
The Pan Am Service ended in Brownsville, and passengers were initially picked up on the Pacific Pacific Railway to St. Louis. Louis, Missouri for rail connections to the northern United States. In 1931, American Airways flew a multi-stop route from Brownsville to Dallas by connecting services to Chicago, Los Angeles, and other destinations making it possible to travel between many points in the United States and Mexico completely through the air. Braniff Airways began operations in 1934, and Eastern Air Lines began operations in 1939.
During World War II, the airport was redubbed Brownsville Air Force Airfield and was used by the military for pilot training, machine testing and repair.
In the 1950s, Mexico City's Pan Am route extended to Houston, and Brownsville became a mid-term stop. Pan Am service to Brownsville stopped by 1963 as Mexico City service became nonstop from Houston. In the 1960s, the country's 16th weather radar system was installed at BRO.
In 1979, the year after the deregulation of the airline, Brownsville was served by three airlines: Braniff International Airways (727 services to Dallas/Fort Worth), Texas International Airlines (DC-9 service to Houston and McAllen), and Tejas Airlines (commuter service to Corpus Christi, McAllen and San Antonio).
In 1983, the airport was officially renamed Brownsville-South Padre Island International Airport.
In 2014, the extension of the existing foundation to 10,000 or 12,000 feet (3,000 or 3,700 m) was proposed by Brownsville City Aviation Director, and the city purchased an additional 8.2 hectares (3.3 acres) of land for approximately US $ 200,000 .
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Brownsville Army Airfield
During World War II the airport was used by the United States Air Force Air Force, although Air Corps had signed a contract with Pan American Airways in 1940 for aircraft mechanic training at the airport. Shortly after the Attack of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, both the Army and Naval observation aircraft began operating from the antisubmarine missile airport over the Gulf of Mexico.
For the first year of US involvement in combat, Pan American continues to operate the airport, providing training for Ferrying Command and ground mechanics commissioned for the 18th Transitional Transportation Training Detachment. With the reorganization of the Ferry Command into the Air Transport Command on 1 July 1942, plans were made by the Army to take airport jurisdiction. On July 28, 1943, AAF 568 USAAF Base Unit, Air Transport Command was assigned to the newly designated Brownsville Airport B . The mission of the 4th Combat Operations Training Unit at the airport is the pilot training to transport the pursuit aircraft to various war theaters. The training was conducted by AAF instructor pilots, but Pan American Airways maintained operations at the airfield carrying larger 2 and 4 transport machines to the airport as a repair facility. In May 1944, a new mission was developed to train multi-machine pilots at the base. The school started operations in June, and pilots began to transport large numbers of aircraft to Panama for subsequent deliveries by sealing to Australia.
Notes during World War II at Brownsville AAF are:
- The Civil Pilot Training Program was initiated to train military and commercial pilots.
- The first American jet engine flight was tested at Brownsville Army Air Field.
- B-29 bombers are being renovated on site.
- The airport has one of the largest repair facilities in the country. At the end of the war, Pan American has overhauled nearly 6,000 machines.
With the end of the Pacific War in August 1945, operations at Brownsville AAF were dramatically reduced. Flight operations continued at a reduced rate for the balance of 1945, but in early January the base was declared surplus and inactive on 5 March 1946 and returned to full civilian control.
Facilities and airplanes
The Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport covers an area of ​​1,700 hectares (688 ha) at a height of 22 feet (7 m) above average sea level. It has three runways with asphalt surface: 13R/31L is 7,399 by 150 feet (2,255 x 46 m); 17/35 is 6,000 to 150 feet (1,829 x 46 m); 13L/31R is 3,000 x 75 feet (914 x 23 m).
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2011, the airport had 37,412 aircraft operations, averaging 102 per day: 45% of general aviation, 40% military, 14% air taxi, and 1% commercially scheduled. At that time there were 55 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single engine and 13% multi-machine.
Several types of regional jet aircraft, including Bombardier Canadair CRJ-200 and Embraer Embraer ERJ 145, are each operated by American Eagle (Envoy Air) and United Express (ExpressJet) on behalf of their major airlines, American Airlines and United Airlines to Brownsville.. Previous aircraft operated for scheduled passenger services to airports include Embraer ERJ 135, Embraer ERJ 140 and ATR-42 jet and turboprop aircraft (flown by Chautauqua Airlines, Envoy Airlines, ExpressJet Airlines) and Boeing 737-200, 737-300 and 737- 500 mainstream jet aircraft (operated by Continental Airlines). Additional aircraft information can be found below in the historical flight service section.
Pan American Airways, Inc. (not to be confused with the original Pan Am) is located at 1931 Pan American Airways Building in Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport. The company renovated Pan American Airways Building 1931 with the intention of reopening "Gateway to Latin America" ​​in 2011. However, the reopening never took place and the company no longer exists.
Airlines and destinations
American Eagle operates the Bombardier CRJ-900 jet on their route to Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), with United Express operating the Embraer ERJ-175, Bombardier CRJ-700 and Embraer ERJ-145 regional jets on their route to Houston (IAH). The American Eagle and United Express services are operated through a code sharing agreement with SkyWest Airlines, ExpressJet and Mesa Airlines. When United started a Saturday-only season service to Chicago - O'Hare in November 2018, they will be using Embraer 175 aircraft.
Historical flight service
Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) began serving Brownsville in 1929 with daily flights to Mexico City via Tampico. In 1950, Pan Am operated the Douglas DC-4 propliner service from the airport to Mexico City via Tampico with ongoing services to Guatemala City, Guatemala; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; San Jose, Costa Rica and Panama City, Panama. In 1961, Pan Am operated the Houston Hobby-Brownsville-Mexico City flight twice weekly with Douglas DC-4 and had suspended all services to the airport in 1963. American Airways, a predecessor to American Airlines, served the airport in 1931 with daily flights operated on the Brownsville-San Antonio-Austin-Waco-Fort Worth-Dallas route.
Braniff International Airways and Eastern Air Lines serve Brownsville for many years as well. In 1935, Braniff operated daily the Lockheed Model 10 Electra prop service on the Brownsville-Corpus Christi-San Antonio-Austin-Waco-Fort Worth-Dallas route. In 1940, Braniff operated a flight called the Starlite Express with the Brownsville-Corpus Christi-San Antonio-Austin-Fort Worth-Dallas-Oklahoma City-Ponca-Wichita-Kansas City-Chicago City route flown with a Douglas DC-3. The Eastern system time table dated March 1, 1939, contains this announcement: "New Route to Brownsville and Mexico". In 1941, Eastern operated a flight called "Mexico Silver Sleeper" on the New York City-Washington, D.C.-Atlanta-New Orleans-Houston Hobby Airport-Corpus Christi-Brownsville route. The registered connections in the East region in his schedule through Brownsville to the Pan Am service to Mexico today. In 1958, Eastern operated the convota 340 "Silver Falcon" service daily with the Brownsville-Corpus Christi-Houston Hobby-Beaumont/Port Arthur-Lake Charles-Lafayette-Baton Rouge-New Orleans-Mobile-Pensacola-Montgomery-Birmingham-Atlanta. In 1965, Eastern services became more regional as the airline operated daily with the Convair 440 prop service from the airport on the Brownsville-Corpus Christi-Houston-Beaumont-Lake Charles-Lafayette-Baton Rouge-New Orleans route. Trans-Texas Airways (TTa) also serves Brownsville. In 1952, TTa operated the daily Douglas DC-3 "Starliner" flight with the Brownsville-Harlingen-McAllen-Alice-Corpus Christi-Beeville-Victoria-Houston route. Years later, TTa will eventually be renamed Texas International Airlines
Scheduled passenger jet service arrived in Brownsville during the mid-1960s. In 1966, Braniff International served the airport with British Aircraft Corporation's new BAC One-Eleven twin jet with the daily route of Brownsville-Corpus Christi-San Antonio-Austin-Dallas Love Field-Tulsa-Kansas City. During the summer of 1967, Braniff continued to operate the BAC One-Eleven jet service to the airport with the daily route of Brownsville-Corpus Christi-Houston Hobby Airport-Dallas Love Field-Wichita-Kansas City-Chicago. In 1974, Braniff flew Boeing 727-100 and Boeing 727-200 relentlessly to Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) and Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) with direct services to Washington, D.C., Detroit, Amarillo and Lubbock. In the fall of 1979, Braniff operated three nonstop Boeing 727 flights to Dallas/Ft. Feasible with one-stop direct services to New York City via John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and one-stop direct flights to Chicago O'Hare (ORD) and Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSP). In the spring of 1981, Braniff continued to operate three daily Boeing 727 nonstop flights to Dallas/Ft. Worth.
In the fall of 1979, Texas International Airlines (TI) operated three non-stop flights a day to the Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) with the Douglas DC-9-10 jet. In the summer of 1982, Texas International, then acquired by Continental Airlines, operated two nonstop flights a day to the Houston Intercontinental with Douglas DC-9-10 on behalf of Continental. One of the DC-9 IT flights operates steadily, no service changes to Dallas/Ft. Worth, Albuquerque and Los Angeles (LAX). In 1983, Continental began operating a nonstop service for IAH with Boeing 727-100 jet aircraft and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30. Ozark Air Lines served Brownsville also during the early and mid 1980s with a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 jet aircraft with nonstop flights to Dallas/Ft. Worth and San Antonio with a one-stop service that is continuous to St. Louis (STL) airline. In the fall of 1984, Royale Airlines operated three flights of jet Douglas DC-9-10 a day non-stop to Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) through passenger bait agreement with Continental Airlines. In the summer of 1985, Muse Air operated a non-stop service to Houston Hobby Airport (HOU) with five daily flights and direct service to Dallas Love Field (DAL) and Tulsa with McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50 and McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jet aircraft. Substitute Muse Air, TranStar Airlines, continued to operate the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50 jet service to Houston Hobby Airport in 1986 and 1987 with several flights offering direct services, one stop to Dallas Love Field and New Orleans.
In the fall of 1994, Continental Airlines and its regional affiliates Continental Express operated a combined total of five non-stop flights a day to the Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) with four Continental-operated flights with Boeing 727-200, Boeing 737-500 or McDonnell Douglas MD- 80 and one flight operated by Continental Express with turboprop ATR-42. Continental also operates the current international service from Brownsville with McDimmell Douglas MD-80 daily flights to Mexico City. The Continental service at the same time includes two Boeing 727-200 day trips operated on the Detroit-Houston-Brownsville route and back. In the spring of 1995, Continental Airlines and Continental Express continued to serve Brownsville with a combined total of five non-stop flights a day to the Houston Intercontinental Airport. Continental operates Boeing 737-300 and Boeing 737-500 jets to the current airport while Continental Express operates ATR-42 and ATR-72 turboprop. Continental then joined United Airlines in 2010.
Cargo
This airport is the largest air cargo handling airport in Rio Grande Valley.
Pan American Airways (not to be confused with the original Pan Am) and World-Wide Consolidated Logistics, Inc. will open cargo services to Latin America in 2011. The TSA Certified Cargo Filtering Facility is established by World-Wide Consolidated Logistics, Inc. to facilitate domestic and international cargo filtering to and from the United States with the intention of Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport is "Gateway to Latin America "in 2011 and" Gateway to Africa "(via Southern Routes) in 2012. The plan never worked because the entity owner (PAAWWCL) encountered a legal problem, preventing the airline from starting a service anything new.
Website
Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport is the first airport in Texas that offers flight status notifications via text message via its website.
In addition to aviation status text message notifications, the site also displays current fares to popular routes, including Houston, Atlanta, Toronto, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and QuerÃÆ' Â © taro.
See also
- Second World War II Texas Armies
References
External links
- Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport, official website
- Rio Grande Valley Wing of the Commemorative Air Force
- FAA Airport Chart Ã, (PDF) , effective May 24, 2018
- FAA Terminal Procedure for BRO, valid May 24, 2018
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KBRO
- ASN accident history for BRO
- FlightAware airport information and direct flight trackers
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautics graph for KBRO
- The current BRO delays information
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