Kansas City International Airport strife and interruptions raised its cost to $250 million. Kansas City renamed the airport Kansas City International Airport (although it kept MCI as its airport code). TWA, Braniff and everyone else moved to MCI. Many design decisions were driven by TWA, which envisioned it would be its hub, with 747s and Supersonic Transports whisking people from America's heartland to all points on the globe. Streets around the airport included Mexico City Avenue, Brasília Avenue, Paris Street, London Avenue and Tel Aviv Avenue. TWA vetoed concepts to model the airport on Washington Dulles International Airport and Tampa International Airport, because those
Garden City Regional Airport Garden City Regional Airport Garden City Regional Airport is nine miles southeast of Garden City, in Finney County, Kansas. It is served by one scheduled airline, subsidized by the federal government's Essential Air Service program at a cost of $2,919,026 (per year). The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a "primary commercial service" airport. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 11,453 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 10,014 in 2009, and 10,155 in 2010. During World War II the United States Army Air Forces used Garden City Airport as a training airfield