The Dubuque Regional Airport.

The Dubuque Regional Airport is a regional airport located near Dubuque, Iowa. The airport is about seven miles south of the city along U.S. Highway 61 on a parcel of land that is about 1,100 acres large. There are two runways for this airport. Downtown Dubuque and the Riverfront Dubuque is a city located in Dubuque County, Iowa. ... United States Highway 61 is the official designation for a United States highway that once ran from New Orleans through Memphis and Iowa through Duluth, Minnesota all the way to Thunder Bay, Ontario in Canada. ... An acre is a measure of land area in Imperial units or U.S. customary units. ...

The airport is owned by the city of Dubuque, and is operated as a department of the city government. The city council appoints people to the Airport Commission board, which oversee the airport. People on the Airport Commission serve four year terms. For day to day operations, the Commission hires an airport manager to run the airport.

American Eagle Airlines provides service to and from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. They offer four flights per day, which generally take under an hour. Currently American Eagle is the only airline serving the airport. There is also a charter service which is run by Preister Aviation. The airport also offers maintainance and refuling services, including services for jets. The University of Dubuque has a flight operations center at the airport. This operations center provides for pilot training in the school's aviatation programs. This includes both ground school and actual flight training. Note: For the arenas named after this company, see American Airlines Arena (Miami, Florida), or American Airlines Center (Dallas, Texas). ... OHare International Airport (IATA:ORD, ICAO:KORD) is an airport located in Chicago, Illinois, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of the Chicago Loop. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States and the largest inland city in the country, with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... The University of Dubuque is a private, coeducational college located in Dubuque, Iowa, commonly referred to in the community as UD. It is one of three post-secondary four year institutions in the city of Dubuque. ...

External Links

• The Dubuque Regional Airport (http://www.flydbq.com)
• American Airlines (http://www.aa.com)
• Preister Aviation (http://www.priesterav.com)