Fresno Yosemite International Airport Explained

Fresno Yosemite International Airport
Image Alt:Logo of a plane flying past a sequoia tree and Yosemite’s Half Dome in a circle, next to the words Fresno Yosemite International Airport
Iata:FAT
Icao:KFAT
Faa:FAT
Type:Public / Military
Owner:City of Fresno
Operator:City of Fresno Airports Division
City-Served:Fresno, San Joaquin Valley, Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park, Kings Canyon National Park
Elevation-F:336
Elevation-M:102
Coordinates:36.7767°N -119.7189°W
Image Map Caption:FAA airport diagram
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Zoom:9
Mapframe-Wikidata:yes
R1-Number:11L/29R
R1-Length-F:9,539
R1-Length-M:2,907
R1-Surface:Asphalt
R2-Number:11R/29L
R2-Length-F:8,008
R2-Length-M:2,441
R2-Surface:Asphalt
Stat-Year:2023
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations
Stat1-Data:92,361
Stat2-Header:Total Passengers
Stat2-Data:2,449,418
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Fresno Yosemite International Airport is a joint military–public airport in Fresno, California, United States. It is the primary commercial airport for the San Joaquin Valley and three national parks: Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon. It offers scheduled passenger flights to several major airline hubs in the United States and international service to Mexico. The facility opened in June 1942 as Hammer Field, a military airfield. The airport is owned and operated by the city of Fresno and operates two runways on a property spanning 1728acres. Its airport code "FAT" stands for Fresno Air Terminal, a former name for the airport.

Due to its central location within the state, the airport is home to several military, law enforcement, firefighting, and medical air units. The Fresno Air National Guard Base on the southeast corner of the airport is home to the 144th Fighter Wing of the California Air National Guard. The Fresno Air Attack Base on the eastern side of the airport supports aerial firefighting aircraft. Other government and military operators with facilities at the airport include the California Army National Guard, the California Highway Patrol, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, and the Fresno Police Department.

Fresno is home to a large operations base for SkyWest Airlines, the nation's largest regional airline.

History

Military beginnings

The Fresno Yosemite International Airport opened as a military airfield in June 1942, just six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, leading the United States to enter World War II. The new airfield was named Hammer Field and was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training facility for the new pilots of the Fourth Air Force. It had a single northwest/southeast oriented runway with a length of 7,200 feet (now runway 11L/29R).[1]

Night fighter training, using Northrop P-61s, was moved to Hammer Field in January 1944, initially with the 481st Night Fighter Operational Training Group, replaced by the 319th Wing in May 1944. Training for the Bell P-59 Airacomet was added to the 319th mission in 1944, as well, confirmed Col. Ralph H. Snavely, commanding officer of the 319th Wing.[2]

At the time, civil and commercial aviation used Chandler Field that had opened in November 1929.[3] Chandler is west of downtown Fresno, on a small site. Less than a decade after it opened, it was clear that the small runway at Chandler would not be able to accommodate coming larger airliners.

Conversion to civil use

After World War II, Hammer Field was inactivated by the Army Air Forces and the city of Fresno saw an opportunity to use the site to create a commercial airport much larger than Chandler Field. In 1946 the War Assets Administration reallocated the property to the city, which immediately began construction on a passenger terminal on the northeast side of the airfield. In 1948, the newly renamed Fresno Air Terminal (FAT) opened. Trans World Airlines (TWA) and United Airlines flights to San Francisco/Oakland and Los Angeles moved from Chandler Field to the newly opened airport. Chandler Field was retained by the city of Fresno as a reliever airport and continues to operate as the Fresno Chandler Executive Airport.[4]

Strategic Air Command facilities for Convair B-36 operations were initially proposed for “Hammer Air Force Base”, but objections from the City of Fresno led them to be changed to Travis Air Force Base instead. The Fresno upgrade was projected to cost $22.3 million.[5]

The California Air National Guard moved to the airport in the 1950s and established the Fresno Air National Guard Base on the southeast corner of the property. The guard also built munition storage bunkers along the northern edge of the airport grounds.[6] The 194th Fighter Squadron moved to the facility in late 1954, followed by the 144th Fighter Wing in 1957.[7] As the guard moved in, a second parallel runway (11R/29L) was constructed and opened to traffic in 1956.

Construction started on a new, larger passenger terminal in 1959 on the south side of the field. The building was a long, simple shape that housed a baggage claim area, a central lobby, and a ticketing area. The $1.5 million terminal had long walls of glass for the baggage claim and the ticketing areas, which book-ended the central lobby of solid masonry block which bears a venetian glass mosaic called "Sky and Ground" from Raymond Rice.[8] [9] From the central lobby, passengers used a tunnel to reach the open-air, remote concourse where they boarded planes from ground level. The terminal opened on March 28, 1962 and shortly after received an award from the San Joaquin Valley Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.[10] Although renovated, the original terminal building is still in use today for the same functions that it was designed for. The current air traffic control tower was built around the same time as the terminal and opened in 1961.

Pacific Air Lines was first to schedule jets to Fresno, with Boeing 727-100s in 1966.[11] United was the dominant carrier at the airport throughout the mid-1970s. At the airlines peak, United operated daily DC-8s jet service to Denver, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Hughes Airwest and PSA jets also served the airport at this time.[12]

The first significant expansion to the passenger terminal came in 1978 when a concourse was built straight out from the central lobby. This building, unlike the original remote concourse, was enclosed and climate-controlled.

The airport saw significant down-gauging of flights following airline deregulation in 1978. By 1983, the airport mainly saw turboprop service from smaller carriers and United Airlines ended intrastate flights from Fresno.[13] Delta Air Lines operated mainline jets to Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Reno in the mid-1990s,[14] but by 1999, the only mainline jet flights remaining at Fresno was the American Airlines service to Dallas/Fort Worth.[15]

In 1996, the airport's name was changed from Fresno Air Terminal to Fresno Yosemite International Airport to attract out-of-state and international visitors to Yosemite National Park to the airport. Despite the new name, scheduled international commercial flights would not begin operating in Fresno for nearly a decade. At the time, airport managers petitioned the FAA for a new identifier code to replace FAT, which they said carries a negative connotation and no longer matched the initials of the airport. The request was denied, with the FAA reaffirming its long-standing policy to only issue a new identifier code when an airport is physically relocated.[16] In recent years, airport managers have embraced the FAT identifier code, naming a major expansion project “FATforward.”[17]

Fresno has been the headquarters for a few airlines throughout its history. In the mid-1980s, Far West Airlines was founded in Fresno and used the airport as a small intrastate hub serving Burbank, Los Angeles, Modesto, Oakland, Orange County, Sacramento, and San Jose.[18] Air 21 was founded in Fresno in January 1994 and operated service between several western cities before ceasing operations in January 1997.[19] Allegiant Air was founded in Fresno in January 1997, and its headquarters were located in the city until it declared bankruptcy in 2000, and the new CEO moved its headquarters to a suburb of Las Vegas.

Expansion and remodeling

At the turn of the 21st century, the city began a series of projects that would expand and remodel the passenger terminal. The first and most notable project was the expansion of the boarding areas. The project, designed by DMJM Aviation extended the concourse further, creating a new two-level section with six jet bridges. Before this project passengers boarded all planes using stairs or ramps. When completed in 2002, the new concourse building received praise for its design and was named one of the top 10 projects in Fresno Architecture for the decade with critics commending the use of steel and the curved glass facade.[20]

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility for international arrivals was added in early 2006, giving federal officials space to check passports and complete customs work. Completion of that facility allowed Fresno to begin receiving scheduled international commercial flights. The first international service started in April 2006 with Mexicana operating flights between Fresno and Mexico City with an intermediate stop in Guadalajara.[21]

With the new concourse extension and new international arrivals facility completed, portions of the original 1960s terminal building were given a major renovation. The project was designed by CSHQA and completed in several phases between 2006 and 2010. While keeping the facility operational, nearly every part of the building was updated including the baggage claim area, security checkpoint, central lobby, ticketing area, and low-level concourse. The centerpiece of the project was “Sequoiascape,” a public art display in the central terminal lobby that depicts life-size, replica sequoia forest, reflecting the airport's role as a gateway to the nearby national parks. The giant trees appear to be supporting the roof of the terminal and are surrounded by fallen logs, and other foliage, surrounded by the split rail fencing and granite curbs that visitors would see at the region’s national parks.[22] [23] [24] [25]

A consolidated rental car facility opened at the airport in 2009. The $22 million project allows customers of most rental car companies to pick up and drop off vehicles just outside the terminal. The project also included the construction of maintenance buildings and storage lots on a nearby, 11-acre site.

Direct international service from Fresno briefly ended in August 2010 when Mexicana went bankrupt. International service resumed, with more flights, less than a year later when both Aeroméxico and Volaris added service between Fresno and Guadalajara in April 2011.[26] [27]

The secondary runway (11R/29L) was widened, lengthened and strengthened in a $30 million project completed in October 2012.[28]

Southwest Airlines began serving the airport on April 25, 2021, the first time the airline provided services at Fresno's airport, with daily flights to Las Vegas and Denver.[29]

The airport added a 917-space, four-level parking garage in November 2021. The project cost $32 million.[30]

Future expansion

Fresno Yosemite International Airport is currently working on a $127 million expansion project that will make several changes to the terminal, including the addition of a new concourse building with two new gates that can be used for both domestic and international flights, enlarging the screening area for arriving international passengers, expanding the luggage-handling and sorting area for outbound flights, new shopping/dining areas, and expanding the Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint.[31] [32]

Airport managers initially anticipated that construction on the terminal expansion would begin in early 2021 and be operational before the summer 2022 travel season.[33] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the process was delayed, and construction did not start until spring 2023 and is now scheduled to be completed in fall 2025.[34] The air traffic control tower is also expected to be replaced by 2024 in a $30 million project.

The airport's primary runway (11L/29R) is scheduled to be reconstructed between 2025 and 2027, a $45 million project.

Airline service

Many of the scheduled commercial flights to Fresno use smaller regional jet aircraft operated by regional airlines, and the airport is home to a significant operations base for SkyWest Airlines, the nation's largest regional airline. Fresno does still see mainline jet service on the busiest routes, and while only a few international flights operate to Mexico each day, they are some of the airport's most well patronized.[35]

SkyWest carries about 30% of the passenger traffic at Fresno, more than any other carrier. The regional airline operates under contract with mainline partners as American Eagle, Alaska Airlines, Delta Connection and United Express. SkyWest has a 17-acre maintenance and overnight parking facility on the east side of the airfield with 21 aircraft positions, and an approximately 92,000 square foot hangar. SkyWest also uses Fresno as a crew base for pilots and flight attendants.[36]

Additionally, Alaska Airlines, Allegiant Air, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines operate narrow-body aircraft from either the Airbus A320 family or the Boeing 737 family of jets.

Aeroméxico and Volaris both operate international service between Fresno and Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city and a major airline hub in the country. Additionally, Volaris also operates service to Morelia, the capital of and largest city in Mexico's Michoacán state and León, the largest city in Mexico's Guanajuato state. Direct international service from Fresno began on April 1, 2006, and are now some of the busiest flights from the airport. As of 2016, international service on Aeroméxico and Volaris accounted for about 6% of all flights to Fresno, but carried more than 13% of all passengers flying to the airport, a combined total of almost 201,000 people.

The carrier that has the longest continuous operation out of the Fresno Yosemite International Airport is United Airlines, which began serving the airport on its opening day; however, some of the flights are operated by SkyWest.

Infrastructure

Airfield

Fresno Yosemite International Airport covers 1728acres at an elevation of 336feet above mean sea level, with two paved asphalt runways. The primary runway, 11L/29R, is 9539feetby150feetft (byft) and the secondary runway, 11R/29L, 8008feetby150feetft (byft).[37] [38]

Aircraft

In 2022, 2.1 million passengers passed through the Fresno Yosemite International Airport, representing an 11% increase from the previous record set in 2021, when 1.94 million passengers flew in and out of the airport, and breaking the record for most passengers, previously set in 2019.[39] [40]

For the year ending February 28, the airport had 92,361 aircraft operations, an average of 253 per day: 54% general aviation, 26% scheduled commercial, 11% air taxi and 8% military. At that time there were 187 aircraft based at the airport: 100 single-engine, 33 multi-engine, 24 military, 11 jet and 19 helicopter.

Airlines and destinations

Cargo

Statistics

Top destinations

Busiest domestic routes from FAT (January 2023 – December 2023)[41]
RankCityPassengersCarriers
1Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas219,000American
2Las Vegas, Nevada212,000Allegiant, Southwest
3Denver, Colorado141,000Southwest, United
4Phoenix, Arizona127,000American
5Seattle–Tacoma, Washington78,000Alaska
6San Francisco, California68,000United
7Salt Lake City, Utah67,000Delta
8San Diego, California57,000Alaska
9Portland, Oregon31,000Alaska
10Los Angeles, California25,000United

Airline market share

Market share at FAT
(November 2022 – October 2023)
RankAirlinePassengersShare
1SkyWest Airlines617,00030.75%
2American Airlines613,00030.55%
3Southwest Airlines361,00017.99%
4Allegiant Air147,0007.31%
5United Airlines140,0006.98%
All others129,0006.41%

Passenger traffic

YearPassengersChangeFresno Yosemite International Airport passenger totals 2002–present (in millions)
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PlotData= color:blue width:22 bar:2002 from:start till:0.908 bar:2003 from:start till:0.915 bar:2004 from:start till:1.031 bar:2005 from:start till:1.092 bar:2006 from:start till:1.189 bar:2007 from:start till:1.248 bar:2008 from:start till:1.273 bar:2009 from:start till:1.128 bar:2010 from:start till:1.146 bar:2011 from:start till:1.159 bar:2012 from:start till:1.240 bar:2013 from:start till:1.328 bar:2014 from:start till:1.391 bar:2015 from:start till:1.392 bar:2016 from:start till:1.541 bar:2017 from:start till:1.539 bar:2018 from:start till:1.766 bar:2019 from:start till:1.965 bar:2020 from:start till:0.991 bar:2021 from:start till:1.948 bar:2022 from:start till:2.182 bar:2023 from:start till:2.449

2003915,911
20041,031,291
20051,092,130
20061,189,967
20071,248,255
20081,273,813
20091,128,695
20101,146,685
20111,159,989
20121,240,286
20131,328,972
20141,390,704
20151,392,070
20161,540,922
20171,538,833
20181,765,963
20191,964,489
2020990,627
20211,948,313
20222,181,841
20232,449,418

Military and government operations

The 144th Fighter Wing of the California Air National Guard is based at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport.[42] The California Army National Guard also has an Aviation Classification Repair Activity Depot (AVCRAD) at the airport. The depot performs high-level maintenance and repair of Army aircraft. Its jurisdiction covers a 15-state region in the Western United States.[43]

The United States Forest Service, Sierra National Forest and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) jointly operate the Fresno Air Attack Base at the airport for fighting forest fires with aerial tankers.[44] The air attack base has a command center and four loading pits where fire retardant is pumped into aircraft with the capacity to load up to 300,000 gallons each day.

Other government operators with facilities at the airport include the California Highway Patrol (CHP), the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, and the Fresno Police Department.

Ground transportation and access

Highways

The airport is located about 1miles north of California State Route 180, with vehicles using Peach Avenue to connect between the airport and the highway.[45] California State Route 180 connects to all of the other freeways in the Fresno area: California State Route 41, California State Route 99, and California State Route 168.[46] Yosemite National Park can be accessed by California State Route 41 and Kings Canyon National Park and Sequoia National Park can be accessed by California State Route 180.[47] [48]

Parking

The city of Fresno offers paid on-site parking in a 900 space parking garage south of the airport terminal, a large lot south of the terminal, and several smaller lots east of the terminal. A separate cell phone waiting lot located on the southeast corner of the airport property has stalls, designated for drivers waiting for arriving passengers.[49] [50]

Public transportation

Fresno Area Express (FAX) operates two public transit bus routes to the airport, each with half-hourly service.[51] Route 26 Palm / Butler runs between the airport and North Fresno via Southeast and Downtown Fresno (where passengers may transfer to other FAX routes). Route 39 FYI/Clinton runs between the airport and West Fresno.

The City of Visalia operates the V-LINE bus between the airport and the Visalia Transit Center (where passengers can connect to Visalia Transit routes) and the Visalia Airport (which offers V-LINE passengers free long-term parking for up to ten days).[52] [53]

Rental car facility

The airport offers a consolidated rental car facility at the west end of the terminal. Nine rental car companies have passenger service counters inside the terminal near the baggage claim area and up to 400 cars can be parked in a lot just west of the terminal building.[54] The 11-acre rental car facility opened in 2009 and was built at a cost of $22 million.

Bicycle

The airport has covered bicycle parking racks located inside the parking garage south of the airport terminal.[55] Nearby roads East Clinton Way and East McKinley Avenue have Class II bike lanes (on-roadway, separated) and they connect to the Class I bike path (off-roadway) that runs alongside North Clovis Avenue.[56]

Accidents and incidents

Notes and References

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