Aspen Aspen Airport Information
Aspen-Pitkin County Airport (IATA: ASE), also known as Sardy Field, is a public airport located three miles (5 km) northwest of the central business district (CBD) of Aspen, a city in Pitkin County, Colorado, USA. The airport covers 573 acres (2.32 km2) and has a single runway.
Walter Paepcke and John Spachner founded the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport as a privately owned, public use gravel landing strip in 1946. The original facility consisted of a log cabin terminal building and a gravel runway. In 1956, Aspen Airport Corporation officially deeded the Airport to Pitkin County making it a publicly owned public use airport, one of the requirements for federal participation in airport development.
Here are some of the major Airlines that service Aspen-Pitkin County Airport:
- Delta Connection operated by SkyWest Airlines
- Frontier Airlines operated by Lynx Aviation
- United Express operated by SkyWest Airlines
The above mentioned information is taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Airport.