Owned by the City of New Orleans, it is the primary international airport for the New Orleans metropolitan area and Southeast Louisiana. There is a single terminal with three concourses and 35 gates. In , there were 78, aircraft operations.
It had become clear in that New Orleans needed a new airport, so Moisant Field was built. It was named after daredevil aviator John Moisant, who had died in in an airplane crash on the land where the airport was built. As with many other airports, it became a government air base during WWII and was returned to civil control after the war, allowing commercial service to begin in May Upon the initiation of commercial service, the terminal was a large, hangar-like building.
Clearly, this makeshift building would be insufficient in the long run, and a new terminal complex debuted in the core of this facility was in use until November By this point in time, the airport was known as Moisant International Airport.
The terminal contained two sections East and West , with four concourses and a total of 47 gates what remains of the original terminal today is the vaulted arrivals lounge at the head of Concourse C and the adjacent western half of the ticketing alley.
Whereas in the s, there were discussions revolving around the relocation of the airport now known as New Orleans International Airport, has had its name changed in , it was instead decided in the early 70s that the airport should be expanded instead these deliberations appeared again multiple times over the years, only to be met with the same fate.
