Airport location, terminals and transportation
Memphis International Airport is located in the territory of the eponymous city in the United States, in the state of Tennessee. It is situated 5 kilometres from the city centre. The airport was opened in 1929. During the Second World War, the air terminal was used for preparing aircraft and sending them overseas. The airport services roughly 4 million passengers per year. The passenger terminal is divided into 3 concourses, which are A, B and C. The airport comprises 4 runways.
You can get to Memphis by public transport from Terminal C (the baggage claim level), where a bus stop is placed. The bus stop has the MATA City Bus sign. Bus number 64 runs to the city.
Rental offices, how to find them, where to return car
At Memphis International Airport, the car rental services are provided in the Rental Car Facility, which features several operators. The following companies are found in the Rental Car Facility: Alamo rent a car, Avis rent a car, Budget, Dollar, Enterprise, Hertz, National car rental, and Thrifty. The offices of these companies are positioned on the 1st and the 2nd levels of the economy parking lot. The cars are collected from and returned to the parking garage. There is a separate access to the parking garage for those who return rental vehicles.
In order to get to the car rental counters in the Ground Transportation Center, you should go one level below the baggage claim hall after you have left it, using an escalator or elevator. Then proceed to the Ground Transportation Center following the signs that read “Economy parking/Rent a car”. You should check with the selected car rental company for hours of operation in good time, because not all the operators work at night and on weekends. Advance online booking is available to clients 24 hours a day. Supplementary equipment is provided at an additional cost upon customers' request.
Long-term and short-term parking, hotels nearby
At Memphis International Airport, parking spaces are provided in the parking lots of several types. Short-term and long-term parking lots are stationed in front of the passenger terminal. The 7-level Ground Transportation Center where economy parking is available is placed behind them. There is a parking lot in the territory of the airport, which is used when the main parking lots are full as well as for oversized vehicles. Parking is free in all the parking lots for the first 30 minutes. Economy parking (on the 1st level) is connected to Terminal B by a pedestrian walkway. Various reward programs are accessible to parking users.
The majority of the hotels, nestled in the vicinity of Memphis International Airport, offer shuttle services between the hotel and the airport. The information on the location of shuttle parking lots is found on the informative signs in the baggage claim areas. The hotels which provide a shuttle service to or from the airport are the Comfort Suites, the Comfort Inn & Suites, the Courtyard Memphis, the Crowne Plaza Memphis East, the Holiday Inn Memphis Airport, the Memphis Hilton, and the Hyatt Place Memphis.