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Table 3-9: Top 50 Airports by Landed Weight of All-Cargo Operations: 2004-2009

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Table 3-9: Top 50 Airports by Landed Weight of All-Cargo Operations: 2004-2009

(In thousand short tons)

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Airport Rank in 2009 Landed weight
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Memphis, TN (Memphis International) 1 8,885 9,343 9,425 9,772 9,750 9,464
Anchorage, AK (Ted Stevens Anchorage International) 2 9,844 10,364 10,588 10,562 8,976 7,762
Louisville, KY (Louisville International-Standiford Field) 3 4,388 4,591 5,015 5,216 5,223 5,139
Miami, FL (Miami International) 4 3,423 3,550 3,591 3,715 3,494 3,176
Indianapolis, IN (Indianapolis International) 5 2,314 2,545 2,627 2,652 2,564 2,288
Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles International) 6 3,062 2,927 3,627 3,431 2,876 1,884
Chicago, IL (Chicago O'Hare International) 7 2,359 2,412 2,208 2,201 2,103 1,750
New York, NY (John F. Kennedy International) 8 2,898 2,811 2,615 2,557 2,222 1,591
Newark, NJ (Newark Liberty International) 9 1,765 1,870 1,867 1,873 1,727 1,464
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (Dallas/Fort Worth International) 10 1,431 1,655 1,722 1,753 1,614 1,436
Oakland, CA (Oakland International) 11 1,703 1,797 1,798 1,811 1,742 1,341
Atlanta, GA (Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International) 12 1,162 1,014 1,180 1,261 1,167 1,278
Ontario, CA (Ontario International) 13 1,326 1,344 1,401 1,394 1,350 1,168
Philadelphia, PA (Philadelphia International) 14 1,371 1,401 1,363 1,375 1,264 1,132
Honolulu, HI (Honolulu International) 15 970 828 979 1,134 1,032 1,021
Seattle, WA (Seattle-Tacoma International) 16 531 709 709 691 747 803
Houston, TX (George Bush Intercontinental) 17 697 710 696 769 754 784
San Francisco, CA (San Francisco International) 18 740 797 829 1,039 775 747
Denver, CO (Denver International) 19 763 763 711 642 625 624
Phoenix, AZ (Phoenix Sky Harbor International) 20 801 778 726 711 675 610
Rockford, IL (Chicago Rockford International) 21 677 696 696 737 710 564
Cincinnati, KY (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International) 22 1,141 812 100 97 104 564
Portland, OR (Portland International) 23 718 747 730 713 656 545
San Juan, PR (Luis Munoz Marin International) 24 452 625 606 522 431 543
Minneapolis, MN (Minneapolis-St. Paul Intl./Wold-Chamberlain) 25 678 702 620 612 562 474
Toledo, OH (Toledo Express) 26 502 493 460 471 470 473
Salt Lake City, UT (Salt Lake City International) 27 621 590 548 535 521 449
Seattle, WA (Boeing Field/King County International) 28 446 433 392 403 418 447
Boston, MA (General Edward Lawrence Logan International) 29 586 574 550 530 492 418
Orlando, FL (Orlando International) 30 580 578 481 483 425 391
Windsor Locks, CT (Bradley International) 31 445 484 477 459 433 382
San Antonio, TX (San Antonio International) 32 368 381 398 407 412 336
Columbus, OH (Rickenbacker International) 33 297 376 428 407 365 323
San Diego, CA (San Diego International) 34 320 371 366 346 333 319
Fort Worth, TX (Fort Worth Alliance) 35 374 501 644 557 449 299
Sacramento, CA (Sacramento Mather) 36 252 258 257 319 299 299
Detroit, MI (Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County) 37 349 379 395 398 354 292
Albuquerque, NM (Albuquerque International Sunport) 38 311 324 328 339 315 290
Columbia, SC (Columbia Metropolitan) 39 442 392 396 406 431 282
Greensboro, NC (Piedmont Triad International) 40 266 250 266 229 232 279
Aguadilla, PR (Rafael Hernandez) 41 274 286 297 311 322 255
Fort Lauderdale, FL (Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International) 42 367 372 383 378 336 251
Des Moines, IA (Des Moines International) 43 312 320 335 314 298 240
Baltimore, MD (Baltimore Washington Internationa/Thurgood Marshal) 44 256 257 266 261 228 235
Kansas City, MO (Kansas City International) 45 472 463 398 341 294 228
St. Louis, MO (Lambert-St. Louis International) 46 301 297 227 216 213 223
Spokane, WA (Spokane International) 47 250 269 257 253 252 219
Raleigh/Durham, NC (Raleigh-Durham International) 48 274 248 267 253 248 218
Washington, DC (Dulles International) 49 305 305 280 290 285 215
Jacksonville, FL (Jacksonville International) 50 199 223 248 252 243 211
Top 50 airports, total1   (R) 64,398 (R) 66,206 (R) 66,394 (R) 66,754 62,092 55,727
United States, all airports2   74,435 76,051 76,362 76,583 71,281 63,494
Top 50 airports as percent of U.S. total   (R) 86.52 (R) 87.05 (R) 86.95 (R) 87.16 87.1 87.8

1 The sum of the top 50 airports in earlier years will not be equal to the total since some of the top 50 airports in earlier years are not in the top 50 list in 2008.

2 Includes Puerto Rico and Guam.

KEY: R = revised.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Airport Planning, Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data (Washington DC: Annual issues), available at http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/ as of Jun. 23, 2011.