Columbus Metropolitan Airport
Columbus Airport (IATA: CSG, ICAO: KCSG, FAA LID: CSG) (formerly Columbus Metropolitan Airport) is four miles northeast of Columbus, in Muscogee County, Georgia, United States. Serving Georgia's second largest city, it is Georgia's fourth busiest airport.
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Columbus Airport Commission | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Columbus, Georgia | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 397 ft / 121 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°30′59″N 084°56′20″W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.FlyColumbusGA.com | ||||||||||||||
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Sources: Airport, FAA, Georgia DOT | |||||||||||||||
FAA records say the airport had 51,288 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 48,526 in 2009 and 63,726 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).
Eastern Airlines flights began about 1944, Delta arrived in 1947 and Southern in 1949; Eastern and Southern pulled out in 1979 and Delta's last mainline flights were in 1995–96.
In 1968 Southern was allowed to start nonstop DC-9s Columbus to Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C., three a day, all continuing to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. The flights continued (two to four a day) until 1979.