Elmira Corning Regional Airport
Elmira Corning Regional Airport is in Chemung County, New York, northwest of Elmira and east of Corning. It is in the Big Flats census-designated place and in the town of Big Flats, while its mailing address gives the location as Horseheads, New York. The airport was formerly Elmira Regional Airport.
Situated just north of the Southern Tier Expressway, the airport serves the Southern Tier of New York and Northern Tier of Pennsylvania with airline flights, general aviation, and glider activities. Other airports in the area include Greater Binghamton Airport and Ithaca Tompkins International Airport, with Greater Rochester International Airport and Syracuse Hancock International Airport lying farther afield.
Facilities
The airport covers at an elevation of 954 feet. It has three runways: 6/24 is 8,001 by 150 feet asphalt; 10/28 is 5,404 by 150 feet asphalt; 5/23 is 2,017 by 150 feet turf.The airport had three paved runways about 4000 feet long in a north–south, east–west and northeast–southwest orientation in the early years, but the northeast–southwest runway
was 4702 feet in length by 1960, was extended to 5604 feet by the 1960s with later extensions to 7000 feet and 7600 feet before its present length of 8001
feet. The east–west runway was extended to about 5200 feet by the early 1980s and the north–south runway was abandoned and the additional roughly 200 feet of the east–west runway was added by converting part of the overrun on the east end of the runway to usable pavement, but then the landing threshold was displaced about 400 feet.
In the year ending June 30, 2013 the airport had 22,164 aircraft operations, average 61 per day: 51% general aviation, 33% air taxi, 13% airline and 2% military. 33 aircraft were then based at the airport: 52% single-engine, 15% multi-engine, 30% jet, and 3% helicopter. Airport services include free wireless Internet, automatic teller machines, conference rooms, and a restaurant.
Airlines
There were 2 passenger and 3 cargo airlines as of late 2024. The passenger airlines are:Low-cost carrier Allegiant Air has the only scheduled mainline flights, on Airbus A319s, Airbus A320s, and 737 MAXs. Delta Connection service is flown with Canadair CRJ-200s, CRJ-700s, and CRJ-900s.
Mohawk /Allegheny/USAir flew to Elmira until 2001 when its affiliate took over; Elmira's first jets were Mohawk BAC-111s in 1965. The airport had flights on Capital Airlines, which merged with United in 1961; United left Elmira in 1966.
United Airlines regional flights to Chicago-O’hare started in 2014 and ended in 2016. In 2018 United served a new route to Newark. The route was eventually switched to Washington-Dulles; that ended January 6, 2020.