Logan International Airport - Quiz
Logan International Airport
  • 1. What is the IATA code for Logan International Airport?
A) KBOS
B) LOG
C) BOSN
D) BOS
  • 2. In which municipalities is Logan International Airport located?
A) Entirely in Boston, Massachusetts
B) South Boston and Revere
C) Mostly in Winthrop and partially in Cambridge
D) Mostly in East Boston and partially in Winthrop, Massachusetts
  • 3. How many acres does Logan International Airport cover?
A) 965 acres
B) 2,384 acres
C) 3,200 acres
D) 1,800 acres
  • 4. How many runways does Logan International Airport have?
A) Five
B) Four
C) Six
D) Seven
  • 5. How many passenger terminals does Logan International Airport have?
A) Four
B) Six
C) Five
D) Three
  • 6. Approximately how many people are employed by Logan International Airport?
A) 43,500
B) 25,000
C) 16,000
D) 10,000
  • 7. How does the FAA categorize Logan International Airport in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems?
A) A secondary reliever airport
B) A large hub primary commercial service facility
C) A small hub general aviation facility
D) A medium hub regional airport
  • 8. In what year did Logan International Airport open?
A) 1952
B) 1943
C) 1936
D) 1923
  • 9. After whom is Logan International Airport named?
A) Joseph Coletti
B) Governor Jeffries
C) Major General Winthrop
D) General Edward Lawrence Logan
  • 10. What is Logan International Airport in terms of size within Massachusetts and New England?
A) The second largest airport by cargo handling only
B) The smallest major regional facility
C) The largest airport in passenger volume and cargo handling
D) The third largest airport by passenger volume
  • 11. Logan is the busiest airport in the Northeastern United States outside of which metropolitan area?
A) Washington metropolitan area
B) New York metropolitan area
C) Baltimore metropolitan area
D) Philadelphia metropolitan area
  • 12. How many passengers did Logan Airport see in 2024?
A) 43.5 million
B) 35.2 million
C) 50 million
D) 16 million
  • 13. Logan is the northeastern hub for which airline?
A) JetBlue
B) Delta Air Lines
C) American Airlines
D) Cape Air
  • 14. What is Logan's role for Delta Air Lines?
A) Cargo-only base
B) Focus city
C) Secondary transatlantic hub
D) Primary domestic hub
  • 15. JetBlue treats Logan International Airport as what type of city?
A) A focus city
B) A secondary transatlantic hub
C) A maintenance base
D) A primary hub
  • 16. Originally, when it opened in 1923, what was the airport mainly used for?
A) Private flying clubs and flight training
B) Commercial passenger flights by Colonial Air Transport
C) The Massachusetts Air National Guard and the United States Army Air Corps
D) Transatlantic mail delivery
  • 17. What was Logan Airport originally referred to as at its opening?
A) Boston Air Port at Jeffries Point
B) Massachusetts State Airfield
C) Winthrop Terminal
D) Logan Field
  • 18. Which airline operated the first scheduled commercial passenger flights at the new airfield starting in 1927?
A) American Overseas Airlines
B) Eastern Air Lines
C) Pan Am
D) Colonial Air Transport
  • 19. What milestone did the airport's weather station reach on January 1, 1936?
A) It recorded the highest temperature in New England history.
B) It became the official point for Boston's weather observations and records by the National Weather Service.
C) It was closed and relocated to downtown Boston.
D) It became the first automated aviation weather station.
  • 20. During the 1940s and 1950s, how many acres of landfill were added to Boston Harbor for the airport?
A) 2,384 acres
B) 1,800 acres
C) 965 acres
D) 500 acres
  • 21. Which islands were sources of landfill used to expand Logan Airport in the 1940s and 1950s?
A) Governors, Noddle's, and Apple Islands
B) Deer, Thompson, and Gallops Islands
C) East, Winthrop, and Jeffries Islands
D) Long, Castle, and Spectacle Islands
  • 22. When was the central terminal added to Logan Airport during its expansion?
A) 1927
B) 1974
C) 1949
D) 1952
  • 23. Which terminals replaced the 1949 central terminal in 1974 and 1967, respectively?
A) Terminals X and Y
B) Terminals A and D
C) Terminals E and F
D) Terminals B and C
  • 24. In what year did the Commonwealth of Massachusetts rename the airport after Maj. Gen. Edward Lawrence Logan?
A) 1943
B) 1956
C) 1954
D) 1923
  • 25. What military conflict did Edward Lawrence Logan serve in as an officer?
A) Spanish–American War
B) American Civil War
C) World War II
D) World War I
  • 26. Who sculpted the statue of Edward Lawrence Logan that was dedicated on May 20, 1956?
A) Joseph Coletti
B) General Logan
C) An anonymous state artist
D) Paul Revere
  • 27. What distinction did Logan Airport achieve in 1952 regarding rapid transit?
A) It connected directly to the Red Line.
B) It opened the first airport monorail system.
C) It was the first airport with a direct subway station inside the terminal.
D) It became the first in the US with an indirect rapid transit connection.
  • 28. Which rapid transit line served the Airport station that opened in 1952?
A) Blue Line
B) Red Line
C) Orange Line
D) Green Line
  • 29. Which airline began operating a weekly Boston-Shannon-London service shortly after World War II?
A) Air France
B) BOAC
C) Pan Am
D) American Overseas Airlines
  • 30. Pan Am operated nonstop service from Boston to Shannon Airport and which other airport before continuing to Lisbon?
A) Orly Airport in Paris
B) Santa Maria Airport in the Azores
C) Prestwick Airport in Scotland
D) London Heathrow Airport
  • 31. By the early 1950s, which airline started nonstop Stratocruiser service to Glasgow and Prestwick in Scotland?
A) BOAC
B) Alitalia
C) Air France
D) TWA
  • 32. Which airline linked Boston to Orly Airport in Paris using a multi-stop Constellation service?
A) BOAC
B) Aer Lingus
C) Pan Am
D) Air France
  • 33. What type of aircraft did BOAC introduce on direct flights from London Heathrow to Boston as the first commercial jetliner in the world?
A) Boeing 707
B) Douglas DC-8
C) De Havilland Comet
D) Lockheed Constellation
  • 34. According to the Official Airline Guide in April 1957, which domestic airline had the most weekday departures listed for Logan?
A) Northeast Airlines
B) Eastern
C) American
D) United Airlines
  • 35. When did Aer Lingus launch nonstop Constellation service to Shannon?
A) 1943
B) 1954
C) 1958
D) 1952
  • 36. When was the airport officially renamed General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport by an act of the state legislature?
A) January 1, 1936
B) September 8, 1923
C) May 20, 1956
D) April 29, 1954
  • 37. When did the jumbo jet era begin at Logan?
A) Summer of 1970
B) Fall of 1980
C) Spring of 1974
D) Winter of 1960
  • 38. Which airline started daily Boeing 747 service to London Heathrow from Logan in 1970?
A) Lufthansa
B) British Airways
C) Massport
D) Pan Am
  • 39. Until what year was the Boeing 747-400 scheduled on flights to Boston by British Airways?
A) 2006
B) 1994
C) 2020
D) 2015
  • 40. Which airline operated Boeing 747s, including the 747-8, on daily nonstop flights to Frankfurt?
A) Massport
B) British Airways
C) Pan Am
D) Lufthansa
  • 41. What ranking did Terminal E hold as an international arrivals facility in the US when it opened?
A) Largest
B) Second-largest
C) Fourth-largest
D) Third-largest
  • 42. In what year did Terminal E open?
A) 1970
B) 1974
C) 1994
D) 2006
  • 43. What has been one of the fastest growing market sectors at the airport?
A) Domestic cargo shipping
B) Charter bus services
C) International long-haul travel
D) Regional short-hop flights
  • 44. Which organization undertook the Logan Modernization Project?
A) Massport
B) Pan Am
C) British Airways
D) Lufthansa
  • 45. What was used in the modernization project to separate arrival and departure traffic?
A) A separate ring road
B) Two-tiered roadways
C) Underground tunnels
D) Overhead pedestrian bridges
  • 46. When did Massport's relationship with nearby communities become strained?
A) Late 1990s
B) Mid-1960s
C) Early 1970s
D) Early 2000s
  • 47. Whose 46-acre park was taken over by Massport near the northwest side of the airfield?
A) Logan
B) Frederick Law Olmsted
C) British Airways
D) Pan Am
  • 48. The land takeover of Wood Island Park was done to extend which runway?
A) Runway 4L/22R
B) Runway 15R/33L
C) Runway 9/27
D) Runway 14/32
  • 49. What did Runway 15R/33L later become via artificial land?
A) Logan's first terminal
B) Logan's primary cargo hub
C) Logan's only international runway
D) Logan's longest runway
  • 50. What was the name of the street outside Wood Island Park where residents were bought out of their homes?
A) Neptune Road
B) Logan Way
C) Terminal Boulevard
D) Olmsted Avenue
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