Armstrong International is the primary commercial airport for the New Orleans metropolitan area and southeast Louisiana.

Nonstop service to some sixty destinations is provided, including flights to Europe, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.

[1] In September 1947, the airport was shut down as it was submerged under two feet of water in the wake of the 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane's impact.

When commercial service began at Moisant Field in 1946, the terminal occupied a large, makeshift hangar-like building.

The former terminal contained two sections, East and West, connected by a central ticketing alley and baggage claim.

The vaulted arrivals lounge at the head of Concourse C and the adjacent, western half of the ticketing alley are the remaining portions of the airport's 1959 terminal complex.

Retired United States Air Force Major General Junius Wallace Jones served as airport director in the 1950s.

In July 1978, National Airlines began flights to Amsterdam with continuing same-plane service to Frankfurt utilizing widebody McDonnell Douglas DC-10s.

[12] In May 1981, British Airways inaugurated a flight from London's Gatwick Airport to Mexico City that stopped in New Orleans.

[22] In March 2017, British Airways resumed flying to MSY, commencing nonstop service to London's Heathrow Airport using Boeing 787 widebody aircraft.

[31] This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency