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An international airport is equipped with customs and border control, allowing for passenger travel between countries, and typically features larger facilities for heavier aircraft. Since the mid-20th century, these airports have evolved to support international civilian flights, with over 1,200 existing by the 21st century, serving billions of passengers and millions of tonnes of cargo annually. The history of international airports dates back to 1919, with early examples being airfields that facilitated scheduled international services.

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International Airport - Wikipedia

An international airport is equipped with customs and border control, allowing for passenger travel between countries, and typically features larger facilities for heavier aircraft. Since the mid-20th century, these airports have evolved to support international civilian flights, with over 1,200 existing by the 21st century, serving billions of passengers and millions of tonnes of cargo annually. The history of international airports dates back to 1919, with early examples being airfields that facilitated scheduled international services.

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International airport

An international airport is an airport with


customs and border control facilities enabling
passengers to travel between countries.
International airports are usually larger than
domestic airports, and feature longer runways
and have facilities to accommodate heavier
aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and the Airbus
A380 commonly used for international and
intercontinental travel. International airports
often host domestic flights, which helps feed
both passengers and cargo into international
ones (and vice versa). San Francisco International Airport in November 2005 at
night, with departure gates radiating out from the
Buildings, operations, and management have terminal building, aerobridges, apron and parked planes
become increasingly sophisticated since the
mid-20th century, when international airports
began to provide infrastructure for international civilian
flights. Detailed technical standards have been developed
to ensure safety and common coding systems implemented
to provide global consistency. The physical structures that
serve millions of individual passengers and flights are
among the most complex and interconnected in the world.
By the second decade of the 21st century, over 1,200
international airports existed with around 3.8 billion[1]
international passengers as of January 2023 along with 50 Renovated Simón Bolívar International
million metric tonnes of cargo passing through them Airport (Santa Marta, Colombia) in 2019
annually.

History
In August 1919, Hounslow Heath Aerodrome, in London, England, was the first airport to operate
scheduled international commercial services. It was closed and supplanted by Croydon Airport in
March 1920.[2][3] In the United States, Douglas Municipal Airport in Arizona became the first
international airport of the Americas in 1928.[4]

The precursors to international airports were airfields or aerodromes. In the early days of
international flights, infrastructure was limited, "although if engine problems arose there were
plenty of places where aircraft could land".[5] Since four-engined land planes were unavailable for
over-water operations to international destinations, flying boats became part of the solution. At the
far end of the longest international route (which became the Kangaroo Route), on-water landing
areas were found in places such as Surabaya and in the open sea off Kupang. In Sydney, Rose Bay,
New South Wales, was chosen as the flying-boat landing area.[5]

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