Asheville Regional Airport - Definition and Overview

Asheville Regional Airport is an airport by Interstate 40 and Interstate 26 in Fletcher, North Carolina, near Asheville, North Carolina. It has the IATA airport code AVL, and ICAO airport code KAVL.

The following airlines fly to Asheville Regional Airport:

• Atlantic Coast Airlines dba Delta Connection
• Atlantic Southeast Airlines dba Delta Connection
• Chautauqua Airlines dba Delta Connection
• Comair dba Delta Connection
• Continental Express
• Mesa Airlines dba US Airways
• Piedmont Airlines dba US Airways
• Pinnacle Airlines dba Northwest Airlink

Non-stop service is available to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina, Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport in Kentucky, Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport in South Carolina, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Michigan, George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, Newark Liberty International in New Jersey, and soon to Minneapolis/Saint Paul International Airport in Minnesota.

Disasters

On July 19, 1967, Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, a Boeing 727, collided in mid-air with a Cessna 310 just south of the airport in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The collision happened just moments after the 727 took off from the Asheville Airport. All 82 people on both planes were killed.

External links

• Asheville Regional Airport Homepage (http://www.flyavl.com/)