45-839: Interstate 480 ( I-480 ) is a 41.77-mile-long (67.22 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway of I-80 in the US state of Ohio that passes through much of the Greater Cleveland area, including the southern parts of the city of Cleveland . I-480 is one of 13 auxiliary Interstate Highways in the state. The western terminus of I-480 is an interchange with I-80 and the Ohio Turnpike in North Ridgeville . Starting east through suburban Lorain County , I-480 enters Cuyahoga County , then approaches Cleveland Hopkins International Airport , which serves as
90-403: A Continental President's Club lounge, and a new Baggage Claim area. In 1999, the airport completed an $ 80 million expansion that included the construction of the new Concourse D (now closed), which was built to accommodate Continental Express and Continental Connection flights. In June 1999, Continental Airlines launched flights to London 's Gatwick Airport aboard a Boeing 757-200. This
135-426: A circle that intersects the parent route at two locations. Some routes connect to the parent route at one end but to another route at the other end; some states treat these as spurs while others treat them as bypasses. Like the primary Interstate Highways , auxiliary highways meet Interstate Highway standards (with rare exceptions ). The shorter auxiliary routes branch from primary routes; their numbers are based on
180-632: A flight attendant and pilot base as well as maintenance facilities. United also remains the largest carrier at Hopkins. Regional airline CommuteAir , which flies exclusively on behalf of United Express , is headquartered in nearby North Olmsted . Icelandair and Wow Air inaugurated flights to Reykjavík in May 2018. Wow Air employed Airbus A321s on the route, while Icelandair used a Boeing 737 MAX. Wow Air left Cleveland in October 2018 amid financial troubles. Icelandair decided to make its service seasonal, with
225-402: A new concourse would be built to replace Concourse D. Cleveland Hopkins covers an area of 1,717 acres (695 ha) and has three runways : Cleveland Hopkins is home to both crew and maintenance bases for United Airlines . The airport is also home to one of five kitchens operated by airline catering company Chelsea Food Services , a subsidiary of United Airlines . Cleveland Airmall,
270-409: A new drainage system. Rental car operations are located at a consolidated rental car facility off the airport property. Shuttle services are provided between the airport and the facility. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2021, the airport had 91,615 aircraft operations, an average of 251 per day. This was 79% commercial , 14% air taxi , 7% general aviation , and <1% military . For
315-505: A place where the highway mileage resets to zero. Beltways are also preceded by an even number in the first digit. Some examples of beltways include: Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Cleveland Hopkins International Airport ( IATA : CLE , ICAO : KCLE , FAA LID : CLE ) is a city-owned international airport in Cleveland, Ohio , United States, and is the primary airport serving Greater Cleveland and Northeast Ohio . It
360-462: A post-merger United would reduce or close its hub in Cleveland and instead route passengers through the new United's Chicago-O'Hare and Washington-Dulles hubs. On November 10, 2010, Continental CEO Jeff Smisek stated in a speech in Cleveland that "Cleveland needs to earn its hub status every day" and added that overall profitability would be the determining factor in whether the new United kept or closed
405-458: A state. There are three states that have no auxiliary Interstate Highways: Alaska, Arizona, and New Mexico. North Dakota has an auxiliary route, but it is unsigned , and Wyoming's does not meet Interstate Highway standards. Auxiliary Interstates are divided into three types: spur , loop , and bypass routes. The first digit of the three digits usually signifies whether a route is a bypass, spur, or beltway. The last two digits are derived from
450-424: A unit of Fraport USA , manages the retail and dining locations at the airport. Tenants include Johnston & Murphy , Great Lakes Brewing Company , Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum Store , Bar Symon , and Sunglass Hut . A former Sheraton Hotel also occupies the airport grounds immediately east of the terminal. Built in 1959, it had 243 rooms and was a popular layover point for passengers and crews during
495-557: Is in Cuyahoga County . Auxiliary Interstate Highway Auxiliary Interstate Highways (also called three-digit Interstate Highways ) are a subset of highways within the United States' Interstate Highway System . The 323 auxiliary routes generally fall into three types: spur routes , which connect to or intersect the parent route at one end; bypasses , which connect to the parent route at both ends; and beltways , which form
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#1732880981867540-453: Is of particular importance to the history of commercial air travel due to a number of first-in-the-world innovations that would eventually become the global standard. Founded on July 1, 1925, it was one of the first municipality -owned facilities of its kind in the United States. It was the site of the first air traffic control tower , the first ground-to-air radio control system, and the first airfield lighting system , all in 1930; and it
585-476: Is the largest and busiest airport in the state, as well as in the top fifty largest airports in the U.S. by passenger numbers. Located in Cleveland's Hopkins neighborhood 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Downtown Cleveland , it is adjacent to the Glenn Research Center , one of NASA 's ten major field centers. The airport has been at the forefront of several innovations that are now commonplace. It
630-582: The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) started a $ 120-million (equivalent to $ 149 million in 2023) widening project in 2016, separating I-271 traffic from I-480 traffic. The project was completed in 2020. The Valley View Bridge , which is 212 feet (65 m) high and spans 4,150 feet (1,260 m), carries I-480 across the Cuyahoga River valley. It is the busiest crossing in the state of Ohio with approximately 180,000 cars per day. I-480
675-501: The Red Line Rapid Transit station beneath the terminal. The airport has a dedicated taxi service of 110 vehicles. In 2023, the airport received $ 3.2 million in federal funding to renovate, among other terminal facilities, the public transportation tunnel to the airport. This will include modernizing wall surfaces, replacing the tunnel ceiling and waterproof membrane in the tunnel tramway, structural repairs, and installation of
720-556: The recession and an inability to obtain affordable seasonal slots at Heathrow. The company was also about to join the Star Alliance , to which United Airlines belonged. Consequently, London-bound passengers would be able to transit through United's Chicago hub instead of Cleveland. The cancellation of the route left the city without a direct link to Europe until 2018. In 2010, Continental and United Airlines announced that they would merge operations. The merger prompted concerns that
765-455: The Cleveland hub. United continued to reduce its capacity in Cleveland following the merger, which already had been substantially reduced in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis . On February 1, 2014, United announced that the airline would shut down its Cleveland hub, stating as justification that the airline's hub at Cleveland "hasn't been profitable for over a decade." By June 5, 2014, United had effectively terminated its hub operation at
810-561: The airport and declared Cleveland a focus city. New routes connected Cleveland with destinations as far as Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico . In November 2023, Frontier Airlines announced it would make Cleveland a crew base in March 2024, employing up to 110 pilots, 250 flight attendants, and 50 aircraft maintenance personnel. Other low-cost airlines such as Spirit Airlines and Allegiant Air began new service to
855-451: The airport as well, and existing airlines such as American Airlines , Delta Air Lines , and Southwest Airlines also increased their number of daily flights and destinations. As a result, by 2017, the airport's passenger count exceeded levels achieved during the last full year that United maintained a hub in Cleveland. Despite the closure of its hub, as of 2017 United still maintained roughly 1,200 employees in Greater Cleveland , including
900-564: The airport demolished its aging, 2,600-space Long Term Garage, replacing it with a 1,000 space surface lot for $ 24 million. This in turn created a parking shortage and daily lot closings when parking lots would become full. The airport's Twitter account became a daily update of parking closures at the airport. The airport converted the Short Term Garage to a so-called Smart Garage and valet parking garage. The airport eliminated its free half-hour courtesy parking perk, and began to charge $ 3 for
945-463: The airport in the 1990s and 2000s. After United and Continental merged in 2010, United closed the Cleveland hub, though it still has a flight attendant base, pilot base, and maintenance facilities at the airport and is its largest carrier by passenger count. When United stopped using Cleveland as a hub, it closed Concourse D, but the airline kept paying to lease the facility. However, United's hub closure created an opening for low-cost carriers to enter
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#1732880981867990-492: The airport made the Ground Transportation Center a permanent fixture in May 2017. This angered many travelers, who complained on various social media platforms, as well as local media outlets, garnering negative publicity for the airport's plans. In March 2019, the pick up and drop off locations for most of the shuttles (except for limo shuttles) have moved to the north end of the baggage claim level. In May 2013,
1035-405: The airport's largest tenant and eventually accounting for upwards of 60 percent of passenger traffic. Continental and the airport both made substantial operational and capital investments in the airport's infrastructure. In 1992, the airport completed a $ 50 million renovation of Concourse C, which housed all of Continental's flights. The renovation included the installation of a continuous skylight,
1080-591: The airport, reducing its daily departures by more than 60%. United also closed Concourse D and consolidated all of its remaining operations in Concourse C, although it is required to continue to pay the airport $ 1,112,482 a month in rent for the facility until 2027. The airport initially experienced a sharp decline in passenger counts following the closure of United's hub in 2014. Several other airlines, however, increased their service to Cleveland in subsequent years. Frontier Airlines significantly increased its service to
1125-589: The airport’s hub days with United and Continental. The hotel closed in June 2022 after its ownership group defaulted on its loans. The airport subsequently acquired the building and intends to demolish it in 2024. The airport has two lounges: a United Club in Concourse C and The Club CLE near the entrance to Concourse B in the Main Terminal. The airport is connected to the Cleveland Rapid Transit system with
1170-472: The designation of I-587 and the completion of the Greensboro Urban Loop. This is because I-80 was concurrent with I-271 until 1971, when I-80 was routed back on to the turnpike and replaced by I-480. Due to the convergence of these high traffic roads, congestion is common during peak times. They run concurrently through Bedford Heights , Bedford , and Oakwood in Cuyahoga County . Because of that,
1215-452: The east and west ends of I-480 was finished in August 1987. Interstate 480N ( I-480N ) is officially designated as the spur freeway connecting I-480 to I-271 and US Route 422 (US 422) by ODOT . The highway lacks conventional confirming markers ; the only shields for the route are on milemarkers. Other guide signs only refer to the routes at I-480N's termini. The entire route
1260-563: The first season ending in October. In March 2019, however, the carrier announced it would not be returning. The Boeing 737 MAX had been grounded , and some analysts said Icelandair might have been dissatisfied with the route's performance. In 2021, the airport received $ 32.5 million from the Federal Aviation Administration to provide economic relief funds for costs related to operations, personnel, cleaning, sanitization, janitorial services, debt service payments, and combating
1305-633: The governor of Ohio, George Voinovich , gave I-480 the additional name of the "Senator John Glenn Highway", in honor of the former NASA astronaut and US senator from Ohio for 24 years. Parts of I-480 were to have been I-271 and/or I-80N . The freeway runs concurrently with I-271 for two miles (3.2 km). I-271 and I-480 were the only two auxiliary Interstates in the nation that ran concurrently with each other for any distance until 2022, when concurrencies between I-587 and I-795 and I-785 and I-840 in North Carolina were established with
1350-435: The highway's middle section. I-480 between I-80 and I-71 was completed in 1983. The two miles (3.2 km) of the route north and northeast of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport proved the most difficult to plan due to existing high levels of traffic on Brookpark Road and the expansion requirements of the airport. The final $ 115-million (equivalent to $ 296 million in 2023), 2.5-mile (4.0 km) segment linking
1395-550: The main Interstate Highway. For instance, I-115 contains an odd number in the first digit (1), which indicates that this freeway is a spur. The last two digits signify the highway's origin. In this case, the "15" in I-115 shows that it is a supplement to I-15 . Exceptions to the standard numbering guidelines exist for a number of reasons. In some cases, original routes were changed, extended, or abandoned, leaving discrepancies in
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1440-488: The market, which had previously had among highest average fares in the country. Within a few years after United closed the hub, passenger traffic rebounded to where it was before the closure. Cleveland Hopkins offers non-stop passenger service to 43 destinations. Cleveland Hopkins is operated by the Cleveland Department of Port Control, which also operates Burke Lakefront Airport located downtown. Cleveland Hopkins
1485-541: The mid-1980s, when it closed its Cleveland hub and moved capacity to a new hub at Washington–Dulles . Following the closure of the United hub, Continental Airlines (which at the time was a separate carrier and lacked a Midwest hub) responded by adding capacity to Cleveland, as did USAir , which was the dominant carrier at the airport from 1987 until the early 1990s. While USAir soon reduced its schedule from Cleveland, Continental substantially increased its hub capacity, becoming
1530-489: The parent route's number. All of the supplement routes for Interstate 95 (I-95) are designated with a three-digit number ending in "95": I-x95. With some exceptions, spur routes are numbered with an odd hundreds digit (such as I-395 ), while bypasses and beltways are numbered with an even hundreds digit (such as I-695 ). Because longer Interstates may have many such supplemental routes, the numbers can repeat from state to state along their route, but they will not repeat within
1575-586: The primary airport for Northeast Ohio . After traversing Brooklyn and crossing the Cuyahoga River on the Valley View Bridge , the highway continues east toward the communities of Bedford and Twinsburg toward its eastern terminus at I-80 and the Ohio Turnpike in Streetsboro . On its route, I-480 crosses I-71 and I-77 and is concurrent with I-271 for approximately four miles (6.4 km). In 1998,
1620-415: The same Interstate, some states treat these as bypasses while others treat these as spurs—see Spur route above. A beltway (also known as a loop route ) completely surrounds a metropolitan city, and it is often connected with multiple junctions to other routes. Unlike other auxiliary Interstate Highways (and by extension, all primary Interstate Highways ), beltways do not have termini; however, they have
1665-402: The same time period, 43 aircraft were based at the airport: 37 jets , 4 military aircraft , and 2 multi-engine airplanes . In May 2015, the airport moved the pick-up and drop off location for most shuttles to the former limo lot, requiring most passengers to take two escalators underneath the former shuttle parking in the arrivals lane at the airport. Originally meant to be a temporary fix,
1710-571: The spread of pathogens during the COVID-19 pandemic . In May 2023, Aer Lingus launched flights between Cleveland and Dublin on Airbus A321LR aircraft. It is currently the only nonstop transatlantic flight between Europe and Cleveland. In 2023, Cleveland was one of the areas where United Airlines pilots picketed in pursuit of a better contract. Frontier overtook United for the #1 spot in passengers carried monthly in June 2024. Cleveland Hopkins consists of one two-level passenger terminal, which
1755-516: The system. In other cases, it may not be possible to use the proper number because the limited set of available numbers has been exhausted, causing a "non-standard" number to be used. A spur route 's number usually has an odd number for its first digit. It is usually one of the following: Examples include: Sometimes, a three-digit Interstate Highway branches off from another three-digit Interstate Highway. These spurs do not connect directly with their parent highways, but are associated with them via
1800-472: The three-digit highways they do intersect with. Examples include: A bypass route may traverse around a city, or may run through it with the mainline bypassing. In a typical 3-digit Interstate Highway, bypasses usually have both its two termini junctioned with another Interstate highway. Bypass routes are preceded by an even number in the first digit. Examples include: In the case of an auxiliary Interstate highway which has both ends at Interstates but not
1845-508: Was Cleveland's first scheduled transatlantic service. The carrier suspended the link after the September 11 attacks and resumed it in April 2002. The following year, Continental made the route seasonal. Continental began flying into London's Heathrow Airport instead of Gatwick in May 2009; Heathrow offered more connecting flights. The airline discontinued the service four months later, citing
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1890-452: Was completed in 1978, and renovated in 2016. There are four concourses, three of which are currently in use. In 2022, the airport began discussions for a $ 2 billion renovation. The airport wanted to expand security and check-in counters, add an improved checked baggage inspection system, expand gate waiting areas, and add 8 new gates to be able to accept additional flights. Concourses A and C will be renovated, concourse B would be rebuilt, and
1935-767: Was conceived as a means of giving motorists a faster way of crossing Cleveland's southern borders and suburbs. The first segment of the route was partially concurrent with I-271 and constructed simultaneously with that highway in 1965. Planning for the route was largely finished by 1968, and construction began on its first mile (1.6 km) began at the highway's interchange with I-77 in 1970. The segment from Bedford west to Maple Heights opened in November 1976. The segment from Maple Heights west to Brooklyn Heights opened in January 1978. Construction from west to east began as political controversies and engineering work were resolved on
1980-449: Was the first U.S. airport to be directly connected to a local or regional rail transit system, in 1968. It was also the first airport to employ a two-level terminal design separating arrivals from departures. The airport was named after its founder, former city manager William R. Hopkins , on his 82nd birthday in 1951. United Airlines established its easternmost domestic hub in Cleveland after World War II, which it maintained until
2025-459: Was the first airport with an air traffic control tower and a two-level design separating arrivals from departures. It was also the first airport in North America to be directly connected with a rail transit line. Cleveland was a hub for United Airlines from the post–World War II era until the mid-1980s. After United moved out, Continental Airlines moved in, making it the dominant carrier at
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