text: Television The film was first broadcast on Canada's CTV on October 24, 1973, nearly a month before ABC on November 11. The ABC broadcast became the joint highest-rated film on television, matching Love Story, with a Nielsen rating of 42.3 but with a slightly higher audience share of 63% (compared to Love Story'''s 62%). The record was beaten in 1976 by Gone with the Wind.
  Score
  The film was the final project for composer Alfred Newman. His health was failing and he was unable to conduct the sessions for his music's recording. The job was handled by Stanley Wilson, although the covers of the Decca "original soundtrack album" and the 1993 Varèse Sarabande CD issue credit Newman. Newman did conduct the music heard in the film. He died before the film's release. Newman received his 45th Academy Award nomination posthumously for this film, the most received by a composer at that time.
  Soundtrack
  From the soundtrack, the instrumental, "Airport Love Theme" by Vincent Bell peaked at number thirty-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number two for three weeks on the Billboard Adult contemporary chart.
  Track listing
  Airport (Main Title) (3:11)
  Airport Love Theme (3:30)
  Inez' Theme (1:29)
  Guerrero's Goodbye (2:37)
  Ada Quonsett, Stowaway (1:26)
  Mel And Tanya (2:27)
  Airport Love Theme #2 (2:40)
  Joe Patroni Plane Or Plows? (2:22)
  Triangle! (3:50)
  Inez-Lost Forever (1:45)
  Emergency Landing! (1:38)
  Airport (End Title) (2:36)
  Personnel
  Bud Shank - reeds
  Carol Kaye - electric bass
  Bill Plummer - double bass
  Dennis Budimir, Howard Roberts, Joe Cinderella, Tommy Tedesco - guitar