Amarillo Amarillo International Airport Information
Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport (IATA: AMA) is a public airport located six miles (10 km) east of the central business district of Amarillo, a city in Potter and Randall Counties, Texas, United States.The airport was renamed in 2003 after fallen NASA astronaut and Amarillo native Richard Douglas Husband, who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in February of that year.
Harold English opened this airport as English Field in 1929. Also in 1929, Transcontinental & Western Air (the forerunner to TWA) inaugurated the first commercial airline service through Amarillo.
Here are some of the major Airlines that service Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport:
- American Eagle Airlines
- Executive Airlines
- Continental Express
- Chautauqua Airlines
- Continental Express
- ExpressJet Airlines
- Delta Connection
- Pinnacle Airlines
- Southwest Airlines
The above mentioned information is taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarillo_International_Airport.