Midwest Airlines Lands at RDU

RDU Airport, NC – Officials at Raleigh-Durham International Airport today welcomed Midwest Airlines and its nonstop service between the Research Triangle Region and Milwaukee. The airline will offer two daily departures on 76-seat Embaer-170 aircraft. The airline will operate from gate C-25 in RDU’s Terminal 2. ”We are happy to announce that 74 of theRead More

RDU Announces New Service to Los Angeles

RDU Airport, NC – Delta Airlines today announced that it will begin nonstop service between Raleigh-Durham International Airport and Los Angeles. The service will begin on Thursday, June 10 and will operate Sun. through Fri. on the airline’s 148-seat Airbus 320. Tickets go on sale March 20. ”RDU is excited to welcome back service toRead More

RDU Holds Emergency Preparedness Exercise

RDU Airport, NC – Raleigh-Durham International Airport today held an emergency preparedness exercise to test its response to a major aircraft incident. The exercise tested RDU’s response procedures and RDU Emergency Services equipment, as well as that of fire and rescue units and emergency personnel from Durham and Wake Counties. The drill involved a simulated aircraftRead More

RDU Kicks Off 2010 with Growth in Passengers

RDU Airport, NC – Raleigh-Durham International Airport kicked off 2010 with an increase in passengers. In January, RDU experienced a more than 1 percent increase in passenger traffic compared to the same month last year. A total of 628,979 passengers traveled through RDU in January 2010 compared to 617,904 passengers in January 2009. The numbersRead More

Architect Behind RDU’s Terminal 2 Receives Prestigious Honor

RDU Airport, NC – Curtis Fentress, the architect behind Raleigh-Durham International Airport’s Terminal 2, will receive the American Institute of Architects’ Thomas Jefferson Award at the group’s 2010 national convention. The prestigious honor is the organization’s highest award for public architecture. Fentress, a native of Burlington, N.C., led the design of RDU’s first new terminalRead More