MacArthur Airport Long Island New York

MacArthur Airport also known as the Islip Airport is a public airport located on Long Island in Ronkonkoma, Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is about seven miles northeast of the central business district of the Town of Islip, which owns and operates the airport. It serves over two million passengers every year. It contains four runways and two helipads.

The airport was opened in 1942 with three paved runways built by the Federal Aviation Administration. In 1944 Lockheed Aircraft Corporation built the first hangar at the airport. The Town of Islip built a terminal building in 1949. Allegheny Airlines was the first commercial airline using the airport in 1960 offering flights to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington DC. The Douglas MacArthur Terminal was completed in 1968 and subsequently American Airlines began operating non-stop flights to Chicago in 1971.

Over the last years MacArthur Airport saw the pull-out of several airlines leading to a considerable decrease of passenger numbers. Continental Express and Continental Connection flew into the airport offering non-stop flights to Albany and to Cleveland, but discontinued service in 2005. Spirit Airlines had scheduled service to Florida and Detroit.

As of 2010 US Airways is the only airlines serving the airport operating short shuttle flights. Southwest Airlines has established services to Florida, Chicago and Las Vegas.