Table 3-13 Top 25 Airports by Landed Weight of All-Cargo Operations: 2000, 2010, and 2012-2014(1)
| Airport | 2014 Rank | Landed weight | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (thousands of short tons) | ||||||
| 2000 | 2010 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | ||
| Memphis, TN | 1 | 6,318 | 9,772 | 10,263 | 10,946 | 11,880 |
| Anchorage, AK (Ted Stevens)2 | 2 | 8,084 | 9,732 | 8,261 | 7,991 | 8,136 |
| Louisville, KY (Standiford Field) | 3 | 3,987 | 5,319 | 5,462 | 5,632 | 5,784 |
| Chicago, IL (O'Hare) | 4 | 2,062 | 2,448 | 2,278 | 3,432 | 3,771 |
| Miami, FL | 5 | 2,929 | 3,453 | 3,574 | 3,424 | 3,596 |
| Indianapolis, IN | 6 | 2,884 | 2,359 | 2,470 | 2,634 | 2,678 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 7 | 2,892 | 1,977 | 2,102 | 2,100 | 2,149 |
| Cincinnati, OH3 | 8 | 912 | 1,216 | 1,594 | 1,711 | 1,822 |
| New York, NY (John F. Kennedy) | 9 | 2,793 | 1,962 | 1,747 | 1,686 | 1,585 |
| Dallas/Fort Worth, TX | 10 | 1,691 | 1,516 | 1,544 | 1,531 | 1,570 |
| Oakland, CA | 11 | 1,811 | 1,324 | 1,323 | 1,362 | 1,477 |
| Newark, NJ (Newark Liberty) | 12 | 1,961 | 1,489 | 1,427 | 1,267 | 1,250 |
| Ontario, CA | 13 | 1,220 | 1,121 | 1,181 | 1,186 | 1,180 |
| Atlanta, GA (Hartsfield-Jackson) | 14 | 1,090 | 1,314 | 1,014 | 1,094 | 1,131 |
| Honolulu, HI | 15 | 692 | 1,062 | 988 | 1,058 | 1,095 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 16 | 1,454 | 994 | 947 | 942 | 942 |
| Houston, TX (George Bush) | 17 | 480 | 763 | 784 | 852 | 867 |
| Seattle, WA (Seattle-Tacoma) | 18 | 1,060 | 697 | 645 | 693 | 787 |
| Phoenix, AZ (Sky Harbor) | 19 | 920 | 607 | 650 | 688 | 718 |
| Denver, CO | 20 | 900 | 619 | 602 | 630 | 657 |
| San Francisco, CA | 21 | 1,267 | 652 | 599 | 596 | 623 |
| Portland, OR | 22 | 882 | 531 | 581 | 569 | 563 |
| Minneapolis, MN (Minneapolis-St Paul/Wold-Chamberlain) | 23 | 622 | 512 | 438 | 366 | 486 |
| Salt Lake City, UT | 24 | 751 | 424 | 438 | 467 | 481 |
| Boston, MA (Logan) | 25 | 703 | 409 | 390 | 433 | 457 |
| Top 25 airports3 | 52,381 | 52,350 | 51,338 | 53,348 | 55,688 | |
| United States, all airports4 | 74,743 | 67,530 | 67,448 | 68,655 | 71,329 | |
| Top 25 as percent of U.S. total | 70.1 | 77.5 | 76.1 | 77.7 | 78.1 | |
1Dedicated to the exclusive transportation of cargo, all-cargo operations do not include aircraft carrying passengers that also may be carrying cargo. Aircraft landed weight is the certificated maximum gross landed weight of the aircraft as specified by the aircraft manufacturers.
2Anchorage includes a large share of all-cargo operations in-transit.
3Airport rankings change each year. Totals represent the top 25 airports for each year, not necessarily the top 25 airports listed here for 2014.
4Limited to airports with an aggregate landed weight in excess of 100 million pounds (50,000 short tons) annually.
NOTE: 1 short ton = 2,000 pounds.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Carrier Activity Information System (ACAIS) database, All-Cargo Data, available at www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/ as of July 2015.