Salt Lake City International Airport (IATA: SLC, ICAO: KSLC, FAA LID: SLC) is a joint civil-military international airport located about 4 mi (6.4 km; 3.5 nmi) west of Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

The airport sees 343 scheduled nonstop airline departures per day to 93 cities in North America and Europe.

World-famous aviator Glenn H. Curtiss brought his newly invented Seaplane to the carnival, a type of airplane that had never been demonstrated to the public.

Western Air Express, the first private company to carry U.S. mail, began flying from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles via Las Vegas.

The April 1957 Official Airline Guide (now OAG) shows 42 weekday departures: 18 on Western, 17 United and 7 Frontier.

Western Airlines, with ties to Salt Lake City since its inception, increased service into hub status on May 1, 1982.

Terminal 2 was designed by Montmorency Hayes & Talbot and built solely for Western and had several murals by artist LeConte Stewart.

[10] In 2001, Concourse E was expanded for additional gates and SkyWest Airlines opened its new maintenance hangar and training facility.

In 2002, the airport saw heavy crowds as Salt Lake City welcomed over one million visitors for the Winter Olympics.

In June 2008, Delta Air Lines began service to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on a Boeing 767.

[16] Delta also added the first flight from Salt Lake City to Asia, a link to Tokyo's Narita Airport, the following June.

[25] Phase 2 of the project included the eastern portion of concourse A with 22 gates and additional concession options.

[29] The Concourse B Plaza includes the reinstalled floor world map that was featured in the former terminal, as well as a 30-foot-long replica of an allosaurus fossil.

[30] Future features of Phase 3 will include 5 gates in the eastern portion of concourse B and an additional Delta Sky Club.

Ground transportation is available from the airport to ski resorts and locations throughout Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, Utah, and Summit counties.

The airport has facilities for air ambulance, law enforcement, as well as state and federal government aircraft.

Additionally, the airport is home to several flight training facilities, including one operated by Westminster College.

Accident history for SLC at Aviation Safety Network In the 1974 film Airport 1975, Captain Alan Murdock (played by Charlton Heston) lands a crippled Boeing 747 at SLC which was involved in a midair collision with a Beechcraft Baron which crashed into the cockpit of the 747, killing most of the flight crew.

Other notable films with scenes shot on location at SLC: This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency