It is the only airport in Washington that is a satellite airport.

Some, like O'Hare, could be relieved by a new runway or a satellite airport now under discussion.

He favors scruffy, older terminals accessible to downtowns, lightly trafficked satellite airports and cities slighted by other carriers.

Class O facilities were created specifically to provide ground-to-ground communication between air traffic controllers and pilots located at satellite airports.

"Reroute the guy either to one of the satellite airports or back to San Antonio--he can't land at DFW, Alliance, or Love."

I'm asking you to divert him to a satellite airport or back to his departure airport.

The alternatives, "satellite" airports, may be farther out of town, perhaps in the opposite direction from the main airport.

"There's no traffic and no parking hassles," Ms. Reum said happily, adding that like MidAmerica, Sanford was a satellite airport for the Orlando area.

Additional traffic flows include Bradley departures traveling southeast and non-jet arrivals landing Boston south satellite airports.

SCT serves the following major airports (Class B), as well as their surrounding satellite airports.