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Table 3-9: Top 50 All-Cargo Airports by Landed Weight

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Table 3-9: Top 50 All-Cargo Airports by Landed Weight

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Airport Rank in 2003 Landed weight (million lbs.)
2001 2002 2003
Anchorage, AK (Ted Stevens Anchorage International) 1 15,554 17,987 18,015
Memphis, TN (Memphis International) 2 13,730 17,653 17,519
Louisville, KY (Louisville International-Standiford Field) 3 8,053 8,403 8,345
Miami, FL (Miami International) 4 6,109 6,347 6,477
Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles International) 5 5,858 6,076 6,239
New York, NY (John F. Kennedy International) 6 5,085 5,824 5,874
Chicago, IL (Chicago O'Hare International) 7 4,023 4,434 4,702
Indianapolis, IN (Indianapolis International) 8 6,309 4,676 4,554
Newark, NJ (Newark Liberty International) 9 3,590 3,516 3,669
Oakland, CA (Metropolitan Oakland International) 10 3,278 3,493 3,389
Fort Worth, TX (Dallas/Fort Worth International) 11 3,091 2,961 2,962
Philadelphia, PA (Philadelphia International) 12 2,905 2,932 2,730
Ontario, CA (Ontario International) 13 2,583 2,888 2,675
San Francisco, CA (San Francisco International) 14 2,025 2,070 2,400
Atlanta, GA (Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International) 15 2,086 2,332 2,387
Covington/Cincinnati, OH (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International) 16 1,960 2,086 2,197
Honolulu, HI (Honolulu International) 17 1,578 1,941 2,035
Seattle, WA (Seattle-Tacoma International) 18 1,915 1,761 1,593
Dayton, OH (James M. Cox Dayton International) 19 2,887 1,794 1,569
Phoenix, AZ (Phoenix Sky Harbor International) 20 1,676 1,735 1,559
Portland, OR (Portland International) 21 1,615 1,632 1,498
Denver, CO (Denver International) 22 1,606 1,565 1,495
Minneapolis, MN (Minneapolis-St. Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain) 23 1,173 1,242 1,375
Houston, TX (George Bush Intercontinental) 24 925 964 1,332
San Juan, PR (Luis Munoz Marin International) 25 835 1,073 1,303
Rockford, IL (Greater Rockford) 26 1,361 1,261 1,251
Boston, MA (General Edward Lawrence Logan International) 27 1,302 1,272 1,199
Salt Lake City, UT (Salt Lake City International) 28 1,213 1,166 1,199
Orlando, FL (Orlando International) 29 1,222 1,246 1,090
Toledo, OH (Toledo Express) 30 1,153 945 921
Fairbanks, AK (Fairbanks International) 31 1,208 1,237 875
Kansas City, MO (Kansas City International) 32 896 853 850
Windsor Locks, CT (Bradley International) 33 963 905 824
Fort Lauderdale, FL (Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International) 34 947 823 771
Seattle, WA (Boeing Field/King County International) 35 725 782 764
Fort Wayne, IN (Fort Wayne International) 36 831 623 749
Austin, TX (Austin-Bergstrom International) 37 935 801 735
Charlotte, NC (Charlotte/Douglas International) 38 868 747 733
Detroit, MI (Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County) 39 719 709 728
San Antonio, TX (San Antonio International) 40 593 683 705
Fort Worth, TX (Fort Worth Alliance) 41 905 740 697
San Diego, CA (San Diego International) 42 713 653 652
Des Moines, IA (Des Moines International) 43 704 680 644
Aguadilla, PR (Rafael Hernandez) 44 312 291 626
Chantilly, VA (Washington Dulles International) 45 725 677 617
Columbia, SC (Columbia Metropolitan) 46 849 838 609
St. Louis, MO (Lambert-St Louis International) 47 722 600 605
Albuquerque, NM (Albuquerque International Sunport) 48 618 619 589
Glen Burnie, MD (Baltimore-Washington International) 49 576 611 567
San Jose, CA (Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International) 50 767 717 565
Top 50 airports   122,275 127,863 127,459
United States, all airports   142,851 146,581 146,144
Top 50 as % of U.S. total   86% 87% 87%

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Airport Planning, CY 2003 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data, available at http://www.faa.gov/arp/planning/stats/ as of Dec. 1, 2004.