Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

   

Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, formerly Moisant Field, is located in Kenner, Louisiana and serves New Orleans, Louisiana It has the IATA Airport Code MSY.

Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport used to be a major hub for Latin American Travel from the United States. Nowadays, that travel mostly goes through George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport near Dallas, Texas and Fort Worth, Texas, Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida, William B. Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, and JFK International Airport in New York City, New York. MSY has also lost its transatlantic flights it used to have to London Gatwick, Paris Roissy, and Amsterdam.

Despite that, a lot of travel from the United States and Canada still pours into the airport due to tourism.

This airport was named after Louis Armstrong, a famous musician from New Orleans.

History

The airport was originally named after aviator John Moisant, who died in an airplane crash on this land, then devoted to farming, in 1910. The abbreviation MSY was derived from Moisant Stock Yards.

Plans for Moisant Field were begun in 1940, as New Orleans older airport Souchon (now New Orleans Lakefront Airport, still serving private planes) was in need of expansion or replacement. With World War II the land became a government air base. It was returned to civilian control after the war, and commercial service began at Moisant Field in May of 1946.

Airlines that serve MSY

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