Albuquerque International Sunport: Difference between revisions

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Southwest Airlines is the dominant carrier at the airport.  The Sunport is also served by Delta, United, America West, American, Northwest, Continental, and United.  Regional carriers include SkyWest (Delta Connection and United Express), Mesa (Mesa Airlines, America West Express, and United Express), Horizon (Frontier JetExpress), ExpressJet (Continental Express) and Chautauqua (United Express).  Great Lakes as a few scheduled flights in and out of the Sunport as well. Traffic on the weekends is noticibly less than during the week.

With Kirtland Air Force Base occupying much of the western portion of the airfield, you are garunteed to spot some type of military aircraft.  The most dominant of these being helicopters.  Spotting these may be difficult, as they depart from the base itself and fly south to the "Aux Field" and controled firing areas.  The base also plays host to the New Mexico Air National Guard equiped with F-16Cs.  The 58th Special Operations Wing operates from Kirtland as well, affording the opportunity to see many C-130s.

The US Department of Energy maintains a ramp on the Kirland portion of the field.  Although flights are infrequent, they do afford an opportunity to spot "baby" DC-9s and deHavilland Twin Otters.

In addition to base traffic, transient military traffic is a regular occurance at the Sunport.  Anything is possible, from T-6A Texan IIs to F/A-18 Hornets.  Royal Air Force VC-10s have been spotted a couple of times as well.