LOUISVILLE AIRPORT 1998-2008-2018

LOUISVILLE 1998-2008-2018

SDF-KSDF

LOUISVILLE  is the largest city in the commonwealth of  Kentucky and was founded in 1778  by George Rogers Clark  The city took its name after Louis XVI of France . Today, the city is known as the home of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), the University of Louisville and its Cardinals, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Fortune 500 companies: Humana, Kindred Healthcare, and Yum! Brands. The population of the city stands at 620.118 (consolidated 770.557) according to the 2018 census. The metro area is the 45th in the USA ar 1,297,310  inhabitants


LOUISVILLE  international airport was named in January 2019 after one of its most famous son the boxer Muhammad Ali. Previously it was named for  Dr. Elisha David Standiford, a local businessman and politician, who was active in transportation issues and owned part of the land.
 Standiford Field was built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1941 on a parcel of land south of Louisville that was found not to have flooded during the Ohio River flood of 1937. The field remained under Army control until 1947, when it was turned over to the Louisville Air Board for commercial operations.Until around 1947 Bowman Field was Louisville's main airport Scheduled jet flights (Eastern 720s to Idlewild) began in January–February 1962.
Louisville airport  covers 1,500 acres (610 ha) at an elevation of 501 feet (153 m). It has three concrete runways: 17R/35L is 11,887 by 150 feet (3,623 x 46 m); 17L/35R is 8,578 by 150 feet (2,615 x 46 m); 11/29 is 7,250 by 150 feet (2,210 x 46 m) .

1998

3,730,114  passengers flew in and out of SDF  Airport on 1998. The majority of them flew on regular flights , Non scheduled flights accounted only for 0.3% of passengers .70000 tons of freight and mail were handled at this airport

 

Top passenger carriers were Southwest airlines ( 30.2% market share) , Delta group (27%) and US Airways (13.7% market share).

Top freight carrier was UPS with 66% market share

 

  
97.9% of the passengers flew on jets  and prop planes constituted only 8.3% of flights, 2.1% of passengers flown  and only 0.12% of freight and  mail

Most popular jet planes were the Boeing 737-100/200 (24% market share) 
operated by Southwest Airlines, Delta, United and US Airways

followed  by the DC9-30 (15.7% market share ), undder the flying colors of 




By Cory W. Watts from Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America - the noon nine arrival, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link





By JetPix - Gallery page http://www.airliners.net/photo/Continental-Airlines/McDonnell-Douglas-DC-9-31/0215732/L Photo http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/2/3/7/0215732.jpg, GFDL 1.2, Link



By Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland - USAir DC-9-31; N963VJ@DCA;19.07.1995, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link



By Jon Proctor - Gallery page https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/5947117 Photo https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/2/15625_1175090941.jpg, GFDL 1.2, Link


the Boeing 727-200 (15.4%), flying mainly under the colors of Delta and United Airlines




By Peter Duijnmayer - Gallery page http://www.airliners.net/photo/Delta-Air-Lines/Boeing-727-232-Adv/0990522/L Photo http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/2/2/5/0990522.jpg, GFDL 1.2, Link





By JetPix - Gallery page http://www.airliners.net/photo/United-Airlines/Boeing-727-222-Adv/0220910/L Photo http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/0/1/9/0220910.jpg, GFDL 1.2, Link



the B737-300  (13.2%) operated by Southwest, United and US Air

and finally, the Mc Donnel DC9-80 all series (10.8%) sporting the liveries of American Airlines, Delta Airlines , USAir and TWA





By aeroprints.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link





Most popular prop plane was the EMB 120 Brasilia. operated by both Atlantic Southeast Air lines on the route to Atlanta and ExpressJet to Cleveland




By JetPix - Gallery page http://www.airliners.net/photo/ASA---Atlantic/Embraer-EMB-120RT-Brasilia/0215776/L Photo http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/6/7/7/0215776.jpg, GFDL 1.2, Link





Most popular freighters the B767-300 and the Mc Donnel DC8-73


By Dylan Ashe from San Jose, USA - Second Uploaded by benchill, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link



By JetPix - Gallery page http://www.airliners.net/photo/Emery-Worldwide/McDonnell-Douglas-DC-8-73CF/0208062/L Photo http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/2/6/0/0208062.jpg, GFDL 1.2, Link





By Felix Goetting - Gallery page http://www.airliners.net/photo/United-Parcel-Service/McDonnell-Douglas-DC-8-73AF/1001398/L Photo http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/8/9/3/1001398.jpg, GFDL 1.2, Link



 

The most travelled routes were (see below) for which there were virtually no competition  except for Louisville-Dallas-Fort-Worth , Louisville-Orlando and  Louisville-Saint Louis.

  The only foreign destination with traffic > 10000 is Louisville-Cancun operated on a non-cheduled basis by UPS and carried  10231 passengers

Highest load factor was achieved by Southwest on the route Louisville-Baltimore and the worst one by Delta Airlines on Louisville-Nashville.


44.6% of freight + mail tonnage was import/export of goods and best freight foreign markets were Koln in Germany, London and East-Middlands in the United kingdom

Comparing point to point and market tables it becomes evidently clear that Nashville is a transit point chosen by both Delta air lines and Southwest to connect to other cities : Point to point :49,690 passengers , market 4,243 passengers.

Three new markets : Los Angeles, Kansas City and New Orleans emerged for which Southwest  held a quasi monopoly.