Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

Austin–Bergstrom International Airport or ABIA is a Class C international airport located in Austin, Texas, United States (the capital of Texas), and serving the Greater Austin metropolitan area, the 31st-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Located about 5mi southeast of Downtown Austin, it covers 4242acre and has two runways and three helipads. It is on the site of what was Bergstrom Air Force Base. The airport and Air Force base were named after Captain John August Earl Bergstrom, an officer who served with the 19th Bombardment Group. The airport replaced Robert Mueller Municipal Airport as Austin's main airport.A total of 12,436,849 passengers traveled through the Austin–Bergstrom International Airport in 2016. The airport is now the 34th busiest airport for total passengers in the United States--the busiest airport in Texas outside of Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. Annual passenger total in 2016 increased by 4.5% from the previous record year of 2015.Scheduled passenger service began at the airport on Sunday, May 23, 1999. Currently, there are over 250 daily arrivals and 260 daily departures on the typical weekday to 63 destinations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe.