But the old airport’s close connection to the city that towers above it is still clearly visible in the same view today. TWA is, of course, long gone, and the terminal buildings shown in the postcard were “updated” in the 1950s. In 2002, it was renamed to honor Mayor Charles B. In 1961 an FAA memo labeled it America’s “most dangerous major airport” because it sat so close to the downtown skyline.Īfter Kansas City International opened in 1972, Municipal continued to serve a sizable number of private and corporate customers (including Air Force One) as the Kansas City Downtown Airport. The mystery surrounding the opening of the new 1.5 billion Kansas City International Airport Terminal hit the airwaves on Wednesday when a radio advertisement on Sports Radio 810 WHB. No carrier of the era did more to help bring air travel into the mainstream, to the point that Municipal was sometimes called the “Air Hub of America.”īusiness was brisk for the next few decades but as the volume, and size, of air traffic increased, the airport’s logistics proved increasingly problematic.
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