Toledo Express Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Toledo Express Airport

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caption = FAA diagram of Toledo Express Airport
IATA = TOL
ICAO = KTOL
type = Public
owner = Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority
city-served = Toledo, Ohio
location = Swanton, Ohio
elevation-f = 684
elevation-m = 208.5
coordinates = coord|41|35|12.5|N|83|48|28.2|W|type:airport
website = [http://www.toledoexpress.com/ www.toledoexpress.com]
r1-number = 7/25
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r1-width-f = 150
r1-width-m = 46
r1-surface = Asphalt
r2-number = 16/34
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r2-surface = Asphalt
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Toledo Express Airport Airport codes|TOL|KTOL is a public airport located 10 miles (16 km) west of the city of Toledo in Lucas County, Ohio, USA. As well as being a main airport for Toledo, it is also a secondary airport for Detroit, Michigan, and serves as a regional hub for smaller communities and rural areas in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. The airport is operated by the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority.

The 180th Fighter Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard leases 135.4 acres at the airport, housing combat-ready F-16C fighter jets and their support units.

Toledo Express also serves as the main North American hub for BAX Global, an international air cargo company. BAX leases a convert|300000|sqft|m2|-4|sing=on warehouse facility with direct access to the runways at Toledo Express. BAX operates over 30 flights each night from across the United States. As a result, Toledo Express was ranked the 31st busiest cargo airport in the United States in 2005 with over 985M pounds landed.

On October 29, 1960 a chartered plane carrying the Cal Poly football team, hours after a loss to Bowling Green State University, crashed on takeoff at the Toledo Express Airport. Eighteen of the forty-eight people on board were killed, including sixteen players, the team’s student manager, and a Cal Poly football booster.

In 2007, TOL so far has completed an expansion and renovation of the central gate area and has promoted former Springfield, IL Airport Director Eric Frankl to the head position at KTOL. As of July 2007, the airport was still awaiting to secure an airline to operate service to New York after being awarded $400,000 in grant money through the DOT's Small Community Air Service Development program in 2006.

Facilities

Toledo Express Airport covers convert|2345|acre|ha|0 and has two runways:
* Runway 7/25: 10,600 x 150 ft (3,231 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt
* Runway 16/34: 5,599 x 150 ft (1,707 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt

Airlines and destinations

* Allegiant Air Gate 2 (Orlando-Sanford, St. Petersburg/Clearwater)
* American Airlines Gate 3
** American Eagle (Chicago-O'Hare)
* Northwest Airlines Gate 4
** Northwest Airlink operated by Mesaba Airlines (Detroit)
* Direct Air
** Direct Air operated by Virgin America (Fort Myers/Punta Gorda) Starts November 24, 2008

Cargo

*BAX Global (Atlanta, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Kansas City, Laredo, Los Angeles, Memphis, Minneapolis, Montreal, Monterrey, Nashville, Newark, Philadelphia, Raleigh/Durham, Rochester, Rockford, Saltillo, San Diego, San Jose, Seattle, Toronto)
*British Airways (operated by Global Express)
*Grand Aire Express - various charter destinations
*Qantas (operated by Atlas Air in cooperation with BAX Global)
**Sydney, Australia (via Honolulu)
*Emirates Airline (operated by Emirates SkyCargo/AtlasAir in cooperation with BAX Global) [ [http://www.toledofreepress.com/?id=5714 The Toledo Free Press - A tradition for Toledo's future ] ]
**Dubai, UAE (via Frankfurt, Germany)

2006 and 2007 security changes

* December 15 2006 - Security heightened when Toledo Express Airport noted there was a bomb threat. A note that was found in the commuter aircraft simply put it as 'bomb' and that was enough for the airport to take the necessary precautions. They later learned there was no explosives on board of the aircraft.

* January 12 2007 - A bomb threat was called to 911 on a cell phone that American Eagle Flight 4359 flying out of the Toledo Express Airport had a bomb on board. This caused Toledo officials to heighten security at the airport. The plane had pushed away from the terminal and was getting ready to take off for Chicago-O'Hare when the 911 call was made at around 10:30 a.m. The plane had 30 passengers and three crew members on board, and no injuries were reported. The plane had sat isolated on a runway for about an hour before the fire trucks and other vehicles approached. The FBI and city fire officials did not know whether the caller was the one making the threat. The FBI are continuing to determine who sent the call in, but they also determined later in the day that the bomb threat was a hoax. American Eagle is a regional service for American Airlines.

* January 16 2007 - A second bomb threat within four days at the Toledo Express Airport had been declared another hoax. The bomb threat was sent through email to the airport.

External links

* [http://www.toledoexpress.com/ Toledo Express Airport] (official site)
* [http://www.toledoportauthority.org/default_f.asp Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority] (official site)
* [http://www.ohtole.ang.af.mil/ 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard] (official site)
* [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/toledo.htm Toledo Express Airport (ANG)] (GlobalSecurity.org)
* [http://www.flytol.com/ FlyTOL - formerly FlyToledo.Com]
*US-airport|TOL
**FAA-diagram|00184

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