Quad City International Airport - Definition

The Quad City International Airport in Moline, Illinois, is an airport that serves the Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa. Its IATA code is MLI.

The airport currently serves no international destinations, the term international refers more to the fact that some of the flights out of MLI connect with international flights from other cities. The airport's director is Bruce Carter.

In 2004, Northwest Airlines announced major expansion plans for MLI, with their feeder carrier, Northwest Airlink, using smaller jet airplanes. The only bigger jet service to this airport is provided by AirTran, which uses Boeing 717 planes to fly from Quad City to Atlanta, Georgia, Las Vegas, Nevada and Orlando, Florida. It shall be clarified that most aviation experts generally use the term bigger jets to describe any airplane from the Boeing 717 to the Airbus A380, which is scheduled to make its maiden flight in 2007.

Since the airport is small when compared to other airports, the privilege of having bigger jets servicing this airport could be considered to be premium by airlines. In the past, other big jet servers to Quad City have included Northwest and Pan Am.

Airlines currently serving MLI

• AirTran
• American Eagle
• ATA Connection
• Delta Connection
• Northwest Airlink
• United Express

External link

• Official website (http://www.qcairport.com)