

They agreed to move their base (as well as commercial flights) to the newly built airport, Mid-Continent International, which opened in 1956. At the time, Trans World Airlines’ main repair and overhaul base was located in Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas-a former B-25 bomber factory. MCI served 10.47 million passengers in 2015, and the mid-size airport hosts daily flights on Southwest and Delta, its two largest carriers.Kansas City’s first airfields were destroyed in the Great Flood of 1951. Also known as MCI (an abbreviation derived from the airport’s earlier moniker, the Mid-Continent International Airport), this international hub is located 15 miles northwest of downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
