Portland International Airport – supporting air services in a hotbed of environmental awareness

Portland, Oregon, is one of the USA's most attractive and liberally minded cities. Its airport, Portland International, is appropriate to the size and economic scope of the city and surrounding area. It serves as an O&D airport and a spoke to large West Coast hubs, having a minor hub role of its own to play and handling mainly full service airlines.

But as the airport grows - it could reach a milestone of 20 million ppa within three years - it will surely come under ever-greater scrutiny for its environmental awareness; perhaps more so than other airports.

This report examines present and future growth trends at the airport, local airport statistics, how the airport matches up to its peers across a range of metrics, at construction activities and at its traditional ownership. It concludes by looking at the environmental measures that have already been put in place.