Columbia Metropolitan Airport - Definition and Overview

Columbia Metropolitan Airport is the main airport for Columbia, South Carolina, located in the suburb of West Columbia.

Its IATA Airport Code is CAE. Historically, the airport served as the primary training site for crews learning to fly the US Army Air Forces B-25 during World War II. It has also served as the hub for the abortive low-cost carrier Air South and is currently a hub for United Parcel Service. Since the late 1980s, capital improvements have been undertaken, including a renovated and expanded terminal, a new parking garage, the lengthening of the runways, and better interstate access.

The following airlines fly to Columbia Metropolitan Airport:

• Air Wisconsin dba United Express
• Atlantic Coast Airlines dba Delta Connection
• Atlantic Southeast Airlines dba Delta Connection
• Chautauqua Airlines dba Delta Connection
• Comair dba Delta Connection
• Continental Express
• Delta Air Lines
• Independence Air
• Mesa Airlines dba United Express
• Mesa Airlines dba US Airways Express
• Piedmont Airlines dba US Airways Express
• Pinnacle Airlines dba Northwest Airlink
• PSA Airlines dba US Airways Express

Regularly scheduled flights out of the airport fly to cities such as Atlanta, Georgia, Charlotte, North Carolina, Chicago, Illinois, Cincinnati, Ohio, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Detroit, Michigan, Houston, Texas, Newark, New Jersey, New York, New York, Orlando, Florida, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

External links

• Columbia Metropolitan Airport website (http://www.columbiaairport.com)