Rankings
Airport Data
Rank | Airport | Location | 2021 Landed Weight (millions of lbs.) |
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1 | Ted Stevens Anchorage International | Anchorage, Alaska | 25,219 |
2 | Memphis International | Memphis, Tenn. | 24,867 |
3 | Louisville Muhammad Ali International | Louisville, Ky. | 17,506 |
4 | Los Angeles International | Los Angeles | 14,789 |
5 | Miami International | Miami | 11,284 |
6 | Chicago O'Hare International | Chicago | 8,591 |
7 | Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International | Hebron, Ky. | 8,478 |
8 | Indianapolis International | Indianapolis | 7,160 |
9 | Ontario International | Ontario, Calif. | 5,345 |
10 | John F. Kennedy International | Queens, N.Y. | 5,021 |
11 | Dallas-Fort Worth International | DFW Airport, Texas | 3,915 |
12 | Metro Oakland International | Oakland, Calif. | 3,901 |
13 | Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International | Atlanta | 3,651 |
14 | Chicago/Rockford International | Rockford, Ill. | 3,410 |
15 | Daniel K. Inouye International | Honolulu | 3,349 |
16 | Philadelphia International | Philadelphia | 3,249 |
17 | Newark Liberty International | Newark, N.J. | 3,149 |
18 | Seattle-Tacoma International | Seattle | 2,920 |
19 | Phoenix Sky Harbor International | Phoenix | 2,430 |
20 | Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance | Fort Worth, Texas | 2,417 |
21 | Portland International | Portland, Ore. | 2,374 |
22 | George Bush Intercontinental | Houston | 2,263 |
23 | Denver International | Denver | 1,833 |
24 | Luis Muñoz Marín International | San Juan, Puerto Rico | 1,667 |
25 | Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall | Glen Burnie, Md. | 1,519 |
26 | Rickenbacker International | Columbus, Ohio | 1,450 |
27 | Orlando International | Orlando, Fla. | 1,374 |
28 | Salt Lake City International | Salt Lake City | 1,331 |
29 | Tampa International | Tampa, Fla. | 1,324 |
30 | San Francisco International | San Francisco | 1,313 |
31 | General Edward Lawrence Logan International | Boston | 1,289 |
32 | Bradley International | Windsor Locks, Conn. | 1,228 |
33 | Piedmont Triad International | Greensboro, N.C. | 1,156 |
34 | Minneapolis-St. Paul International | Minneapolis | 1,150 |
35 | Mexico City International | Mexico City | 1,140 |
36 | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County | Detroit | 947 |
37 | San Antonio International | San Antonio | 892 |
38 | San Bernardino International | San Bernardino, Calif. | 873 |
39 | Sacramento International | Sacramento, Calif. | 859 |
40 | Toronto Pearson International | Toronto | 857 |
41 | Pittsburgh International | Pittsburgh | 813 |
42 | Charlotte/Douglas International | Charlotte, N.C. | 786 |
43 | El Paso International | El Paso, Texas | 754 |
44 | Lakeland Linder International | Lakeland, Fla. | 739 |
45 | Raleigh-Durham International | Raleigh, N.C. | 736 |
46 | Kansas City International | Kansas City, Mo. | 695 |
47 | San Diego International | San Diego | 694 |
48 | Boeing Field/King County International | Seattle | 694 |
49 | Austin-Bergstrom International | Austin, Texas | 684 |
50 | Richmond International | Highland Springs, Va. | 660 |
51 | Reno/Tahoe International | Reno, Nev. | 659 |
52 | Greenville-Spartanburg International | Greer, S.C. | 658 |
53 | Lehigh Valley International | Allentown, Pa. | 652 |
54 | Laredo International | Laredo, Texas | 630 |
55 | Manchester-Boston Regional | Londonderry, N.H. | 618 |
56 | Vancouver International | Vancouver, British Columbia | 614 |
57 | Jacksonville International | Jacksonville, Fla. | 610 |
58 | Albuquerque International Sunport | Albuquerque, N.M. | 607 |
59 | General Mitchell International | Milwaukee | 607 |
60 | St. Louis Lambert International | St. Louis | 591 |
61 | Billings Logan International | Billings, Mont. | 570 |
62 | Washington Dulles International | Dulles, Va. | 546 |
63 | Eppley Airfield | Omaha, Neb. | 545 |
64 | Spokane International | Spokane, Wash. | 544 |
65 | Columbia Metropolitan | Columbia, S.C. | 539 |
66 | Sacramento Mather | Mather, Calif. | 538 |
67 | Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International | Fort Lauderdale, Fla. | 526 |
68 | Harrisburg International | Harrisburg, Pa. | 523 |
69 | Louis Armstrong New Orleans | Kenner, La. | 503 |
70 | Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field | Boise, Idaho | 491 |
71 | Nashville International | Nashville, Tenn. | 475 |
72 | Cleveland-Hopkins International | Cleveland | 458 |
73 | Ellison Onizuka Kona International at Keahole | Kailua Kona, Hawaii | 454 |
74 | Syracuse Hancock International | Syracuse, N.Y. | 446 |
75 | Harry Reid International | Las Vegas | 444 |
76 | Kahului | Kahului, Hawaii | 428 |
77 | Rafael Hernández | Aguadilla, Puerto Rico | 428 |
78 | Hector International | Fargo, N.D. | 420 |
79 | Tulsa International | Tulsa, Okla. | 408 |
80 | Joe Foss Field | Sioux Falls, S.D. | 404 |
81 | Lubbock Preston Smith | Lubbock, Texas | 398 |
82 | Guadalajara International | Guadalajara, Jalisco | 397 |
83 | The Eastern Iowa | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | 389 |
84 | March ARB | Riverside, Calif. | 381 |
85 | Guam International | Tamuning, Guam | 377 |
86 | Buffalo Niagara International | Buffalo, N.Y. | 360 |
87 | Frederick Douglass-Greater Rochester International | Rochester, N.Y. | 355 |
88 | New York Stewart International | Newburgh, N.Y. | 327 |
89 | McGhee Tyson | Alcoa, Tenn. | 316 |
90 | Stockton Metropolitan | Stockton, Calif. | 316 |
91 | Shreveport Regional | Shreveport, La. | 307 |
92 | Huntsville International-Carl T. Jones Field | Huntsville, Ala. | 306 |
93 | Lihue | Lihue, Hawaii | 277 |
94 | Will Rogers World | Oklahoma City | 263 |
95 | Des Moines International | Des Moines, Iowa | 262 |
96 | Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National | Wichita, Kan. | 261 |
97 | Capital Region International | Township of Clinton, Mich. | 253 |
98 | Southwest Georgia Regional | Albany, Ga. | 249 |
99 | Gerald R. Ford International | Grand Rapids, Mich. | 245 |
100 | Valley International | Harlingen, Texas | 245 |
Data for U.S. airports is for calendar year 2021 from the Federal Aviation Administration Air Carrier Activity Information System. For Mexican airports, data is from the Mexico Federal Civil Aviation Agency for the period of Jan. 2021-Nov. 2021. For Canadian airports, data reflects 2021 volumes and comes from the respective airport authorities. Airports that show different rankings but the same poundage are rounded. |
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