The airport also serves as the gateway airport to Pinellas County.
The country has several other gateway airports and land borders with every other country in South America except Chile and Ecuador.
While the A380 will haul multitudes between major gateway airports, the Eclipse 500 is meant to carry a few passengers on fairly short routes, like an airborne car service.
An armed security officer must be on board before departing a gateway airport.
It has recently accounted for nearly two thirds of the arrivals and departures at Vietnam's international gateway airports.
These rules were designed to achieve a fairer distribution of traffic between London Heathrow and London Gatwick, the UK's two main international gateway airports.
The secondary destinations avoided the infuriating congestion of the gateway airports, and the smaller planes enabled American to offer the greater frequency of service the traveling public wants.
Money can also be saved by getting to the resort from the gateway airport by train instead of rental car.
For over 70 years, Shannon airport has been the gateway airport between the United States and Ireland.
National is Washington's gateway airport.