Orlando International Airport is located six miles
southeast of the central business district of Orlando, a city in Orange
County, Florida, United States. It is the busiest airport in Florida.
The airport serves as a mini-hub for Delta Connection
carriers Chautauqua Airlines and Freedom Airlines and a focus city for AirTran
Airways, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways. The airport
also hosts AirTran's corporate headquarters, though the airline maintains its
main hub of operations at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in
Atlanta, Georgia. The airport will also be home to a JetBlue training
facility.
Floridians joke that the airport code MCO stands for
"Mickey's Corporate Office" – Orlando being the location of the Walt Disney
World Resort – but it actually stands for the airport's former name, McCoy Air
Force Base, named for Colonel Michael N. W. McCoy, who died during an annual
competition held at the base.
