Rankings
Airport Data
| Rank | Airport | Location | 2019 Landed Weight (millions of lbs.) |
|---|
| 1 | Memphis International | Memphis, Tenn. | 24,344 |
| 2 | Ted Stevens Anchorage International | Anchorage, Alaska | 18,306 |
| 3 | Louisville Muhammad Ali International | Louisville, Ky. | 15,599 |
| 4 | Miami International | Miami | 9,235 |
| 5 | Los Angeles International | Los Angeles | 7,459 |
| 6 | Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International | Hebron, Ky. | 7,238 |
| 7 | Chicago O'Hare International | Chicago | 6,543 |
| 8 | Indianapolis International | Indianapolis | 5,301 |
| 9 | Dallas-Fort Worth International | DFW Airport, Texas | 4,740 |
| 10 | Ontario International | Ontario, Calif. | 4,491 |
| 11 | Metropolitan Oakland International | Oakland, Calif. | 3,672 |
| 12 | John F. Kennedy International | Queens, N.Y. | 3,181 |
| 13 | Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International | Atlanta | 3,107 |
| 14 | Newark Liberty International | Newark, N.J. | 3,053 |
| 15 | Daniel K. Inouye International | Honolulu | 2,827 |
| 16 | Philadelphia International | Philadelphia | 2,819 |
| 17 | Seattle-Tacoma International | Seattle | 2,479 |
| 18 | George Bush Intercontinental | Houston | 2,402 |
| 19 | Chicago/Rockford International | Rockford, Ill. | 2,372 |
| 20 | Phoenix Sky Harbor International | Phoenix | 2,211 |
| 21 | Portland International | Portland, Ore. | 2,021 |
| 22 | Denver International | Denver | 1,644 |
| 23 | Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall | Glen Burnie, Md. | 1,380 |
| 24 | Tampa International | Tampa, Fla. | 1,346 |
| 25 | Orlando International | Orlando, Fla. | 1,285 |
| 26 | Bradley International | Windsor Locks, Conn. | 1,261 |
| 27 | Rickenbacker International | Columbus, Ohio | 1,230 |
| 28 | Luis Muñoz Marín International | San Juan, Puerto Rico | 1,225 |
| 29 | Salt Lake City International | Salt Lake City | 1,202 |
| 30 | Mexico City International | Mexico City | 1,163 |
| 31 | Minneapolis-St. Paul International | Minneapolis | 1,116 |
| 32 | San Francisco International | San Francisco | 1,027 |
| 33 | General Edward Lawrence Logan International | Boston | 1,024 |
| 34 | Fort Worth Alliance | Fort Worth, Texas | 1,015 |
| 35 | Toronto Pearson International | Toronto | 962 |
| 36 | San Antonio International | San Antonio | 960 |
| 37 | Piedmont Triad International | Greensboro, N.C. | 934 |
| 38 | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County | Detroit | 893 |
| 39 | Charlotte/Douglas International | Charlotte, N.C. | 783 |
| 40 | Boeing Field/King County International | Seattle | 754 |
| 41 | Sacramento International | Sacramento, Calif. | 706 |
| 42 | Lehigh Valley International | Allentown, Pa. | 646 |
| 43 | Vancouver International | Vancouver, British Columbia | 643 |
| 44 | Reno/Tahoe International | Reno, Nev. | 640 |
| 45 | El Paso International | El Paso, Texas | 631 |
| 46 | San Diego International | San Diego | 613 |
| 47 | General Mitchell International | Milwaukee | 601 |
| 48 | Kansas City International | Kansas City, Mo. | 576 |
| 49 | Jacksonville International | Jacksonville, Fla. | 563 |
| 50 | Raleigh-Durham International | Raleigh, N.C. | 556 |
| 51 | Manchester-Boston Regional | Londonderry, N.H. | 554 |
| 52 | Pittsburgh International | Pittsburgh | 551 |
| 53 | Albuquerque International Sunport | Albuquerque, N.M. | 546 |
| 54 | Sacramento Mather | Mather, Calif. | 545 |
| 55 | Austin-Bergstrom International | Austin, Texas | 542 |
| 56 | Rafael Hernández | Aguadilla, Puerto Rico | 530 |
| 57 | Richmond International | Highland Springs, Va. | 527 |
| 58 | Laredo International | Laredo, Texas | 510 |
| 59 | Billings Logan International | Billings, Mont. | 488 |
| 60 | Columbia Metropolitan | Columbia, S.C. | 478 |
| 61 | Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International | Fort Lauderdale, Fla. | 475 |
| 62 | Washington Dulles International | Dulles, Va. | 473 |
| 63 | Eppley Airfield | Omaha, Neb. | 470 |
| 64 | Spokane International | Spokane, Wash. | 460 |
| 65 | Tulsa International | Tulsa, Okla. | 450 |
| 66 | Syracuse Hancock International | Syracuse, N.Y. | 436 |
| 67 | Cleveland-Hopkins International | Cleveland | 434 |
| 68 | Lubbock Preston Smith | Lubbock, Texas | 431 |
| 69 | Harrisburg International | Harrisburg, Pa. | 423 |
| 70 | Huntsville International-Carl T. Jones Field | Huntsville, Ala. | 418 |
| 71 | Greenville Spartanburg | Greer, S.C. | 415 |
| 72 | McCarran International | Las Vegas | 415 |
| 73 | Stockton Metropolitan | Stockton, Calif. | 414 |
| 74 | St. Louis Lambert International | St. Louis | 404 |
| 75 | Charleston AFB/International | Charleston, S.C. | 398 |
| 76 | Louis Armstrong New Orleans | Kenner, La. | 392 |
| 77 | Hector International | Fargo, N.D. | 391 |
| 78 | The Eastern Iowa | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | 377 |
| 79 | Joe Foss Field | Sioux Falls, S.D. | 375 |
| 80 | Valley International | Harlingen, Texas | 365 |
| 81 | Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field | Boise, Idaho | 363 |
| 82 | San Bernardino International | San Bernardino, Calif. | 351 |
| 83 | March ARB | Riverside, Calif. | 349 |
| 84 | Buffalo Niagara International | Buffalo, N.Y. | 339 |
| 85 | Ellison Onizuka Kona International at Keahole | Kailua Kona, Hawaii | 319 |
| 86 | Guadalajara International | Guadalajara, Jalisco | 318 |
| 87 | Kahului | Kahului, Hawaii | 305 |
| 88 | Greater Rochester International | Rochester, N.Y. | 293 |
| 88 | Nashville International | Nashville, Tenn. | 293 |
| 90 | McGhee Tyson | Alcoa, Tenn. | 285 |
| 91 | Snohomish County/Paine Field | Everett, Wash. | 281 |
| 92 | Shreveport Regional | Shreveport, La. | 271 |
| 93 | Des Moines International | Des Moines, Iowa | 265 |
| 94 | Will Rogers World | Oklahoma City | 263 |
| 95 | New York Stewart International | Newburgh, N.Y. | 258 |
| 96 | Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower | Wichita, Kan. | 249 |
| 97 | Gerald R. Ford International | Grand Rapids, Mich. | 244 |
| 98 | Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International | Montreal, Quebec | 239 |
| 99 | Norman Y. Mineta San Jose | San Jose, Calif. | 238 |
| 100 | Capital Region International | Township of Clinton, Mich. | 230 |
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