Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport
Airport in Mesa, Arizona, United States, serving the Greater Phoenix area / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport (IATA: AZA, ICAO: KIWA, FAA LID: IWA), formerly Williams Gateway Airport (1994–2008) and Williams Air Force Base (1948–1993), is an international airport in the southeastern area of Mesa, Arizona, 20 miles (17 nmi; 32 km) southeast of Phoenix, in Maricopa County.[1] The airport, owned and operated by the Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport Authority, is a reliever airport for Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. It is a base for Allegiant Air.
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
Owner/Operator | Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport Authority | ||||||||||||||||||
Serves | Phoenix metropolitan area | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Mesa, Arizona | ||||||||||||||||||
Operating base for | Allegiant Air | ||||||||||||||||||
Built | 1941 | ||||||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 1,384 ft / 422 m | ||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°18′28″N 111°39′20″W | ||||||||||||||||||
Website | gatewayairport | ||||||||||||||||||
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The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007–2011 called Phoenix–Mesa Gateway a reliever airport, which is a general aviation airport used to relieve congestion at a large airline airport.[3] Allegiant Air began scheduled service from Mesa in October 2007.[4] Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport reports the airport had 1,772,678 passenger boardings in 2019. Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport has different codes for each. The aviation community generally uses the FAA code of IWA, while commercial passenger-flight organizations use the IATA code of AZA.[5]