Airline Highway
Airline Highway is a divided highway in the U.S. state of Louisiana, built in stages between 1925 and 1953 to bypass the older Jefferson Highway. It runs , carrying U.S. Highway 61 from New Orleans northwest to Baton Rouge and U.S. Highway 190 from Baton Rouge west over the Mississippi River on the Huey P. Long Bridge. US 190 continues west towards Opelousas on an extension built at roughly the same time.

The highway was named "Airline" because it runs relatively straight on a new alignment, rather than alongside the winding Mississippi River. (Compare with the similar term "air-line railroad".) The name later became even more fitting, as both Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport were built along the highway. Airline Highway also runs close to the site of the old Baton Rouge airfield (near the intersection of Airline and Florida Boulevard, now a park and government office complex), which brings it within blocks of the similarly named Airport Avenue and Airway Drive.
Q1302778
divided highway
Concept
Q35657
U.S. state
Concept
Q1588
Louisiana
LOC
Q819018
Jefferson Highway
LOC
Q409964
U.S. Highway 61
LOC
Q34404
New Orleans
LOC
Q28218
Baton Rouge
LOC
Q4816910
U.S. Highway 190
LOC
Q1497
Mississippi River
LOC
Q14628994
Huey P. Long Bridge
LOC
Q1154039
Opelousas
LOC
Q1497
Mississippi River
LOC
Q4697625
air-line railroad
UNK
Q1461076
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
LOC
Q810875
Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport
LOC
Q2397868
Airline Highway
LOC
Q2397868
Airline Highway
LOC
1925-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1925
DATE
1953-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1953
DATE
+61^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
61
NUMBER
instance of
located in the administrative territorial entity
inception
crosses