Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport (IATA Airport Code STL) is the primary airport for Saint Louis, Missouri and the surrounding area. In 2002, over 25 million passengers traveled through the airport.

It is named after Major Albert Bond Lambert, an aviation pioneer who bought a plane from the Wright brothers and later purchased the airfield which over the years grew into the airport as it is today.

The airport is the starting point for the famous flight that Charles Lindbergh made to Paris in 1927.

Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport was once the hub of Trans World Airlines. That airline was acquired by American Airlines in 2000, and for a while, Lambert became a reliever hub for American's O' Hare International Airport hub. Capacity cutbacks, the latest in effect as of November 2003, have reduced the number of nonstop flights out of St. Louis down to less than 70, resulting in the closure of two concourses in Terminal 1.

Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport has two terminals.

Terminals

Terminal 1

Concourse A

• Air Canada Jazz Gates A18, A19, A21
• America West Gate A16
• Chautauqua Airlines dba US Airways Express Gate A15
• Comair dba Delta Connection Gates A2, A4, A6
• Continental Airlines Gate A14
• Continental Express Gate A14
• Delta Air Lines Gates A2, A4, A6
• Frontier Airlines Gate A10
• Mesa Airlines dba United Express Gates A18-A19, A21
• Mesa Airlines dba US Airways Express Gate A15
• Mesaba Airlines dba Northwest Airlink Gates A3, A5
• Northwest Airlines Gates A3, A5
• PSA Airlines dba US Airways Express Gate A15
• Trans States Airlines dba United Express Gates A18-A19, A21
• Trans States Airlines dba US Airways Express Gate A15
• United Airlines Gates A18-A19, A21

Concourse B

• (Closed as of November 2003)

Concourse C

• American Airlines All Gates
• American Eagle All Gates
• Chautauqua Airlines dba American Connection All Gates
• Corporate Airlines dba American Connection All Gates
• Trans States Airlines dba American Connection All Gates

Concourse D

• (Closed as of November 2003)

Terminal 2

Concourse E

• Southwest Airlines Gates E2-E24
• Skyway Airlines Gate E31

The airport is served by two Metrolink light rail stations, which offer direct service to downtown St. Louis and the suburbs in Illinois.

Lambert Airport is in the first phase of a major expansion, the largest capital improvement project in St. Louis history. It is expected to be completed in the first part of 2006. The first phase includes:

• construction of a nearly two-mile-long third parallel runway;
• the purchase of more than 1500 acres of land and over 1900 residences, primarily in Bridgeton;
• relocating seven major roads;
• building Missouri's first traffic tunnel;
• moving a Missouri Air National Guard facility and several airport support operations; and
• funding the design and construction of a new school in the Pattonville School District.

The $1.1 billion first phase is funded by fees collected from users of the aviation system.