Boeing 787 Landing Austin, Texas

Lufthansa Boeing 787 Landing Austin–Bergstrom Airport, Texas Austin–Bergstrom International Airport, is an international airport in Austin, Texas, serving the Greater Austin metropolitan area. Located about 5 miles (8 km) southeast of downtown Austin, it covers 4,242 acres (1,717 ha) and has two runways and three helipads. The airport lies on the site of what was Bergstrom Air Force Base, named after Captain John August Earl Bergstrom, an officer who was the first person from Austin to be killed in World War II. The base was decommissioned in the early 1990s, and the land reverted to the city, which used it to replace Robert Mueller Municipal Airport as Austin's main airport in 1999. The airport is the third busiest in Texas, after Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston–Intercontinental, as well as the 27th busiest airport in the United States by passenger traffic. As of 2018, there are 510 arrivals and departures on the typical weekday to 76 destinations in North America and Europe. RWY 18R is 12,250 ft / 3,734 m