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Table 3-13: Top 50 All-Cargo Airports by Landed Weight

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Table 3-13: Top 50 All-Cargo Airports by Landed Weight

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Airport Rank in 2002 Landed weight (million lbs.)
2000 2001 2002
Anchorage, AK (Ted Stevens Anchorage International) 1 16,167 15,554 17,987
Memphis, TN (Memphis International) 2 12,637 13,730 17,653
Louisville, KY (Louisville International-Standiford Field) 3 7,973 8,053 8,403
Miami, FL (Miami International) 4 5,858 6,109 6,347
Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles International) 5 5,784 5,858 6,076
New York, NY (John F. Kennedy International) 6 5,586 5,085 5,824
Indianapolis, IN (Indianapolis International) 7 5,768 6,309 4,676
Chicago, IL (O'Hare International) 8 4,123 4,023 4,434
Newark, NJ (Newark Liberty International) 9 3,921 3,590 3,516
Oakland, CA (Metropolitan Oakland International) 10 3,621 3,278 3,493
Fort Worth, TX (Dallas/Fort Worth International) 11 3,383 3,091 2,961
Philadelphia, PA (Philadelphia International) 12 2,908 2,905 2,932
Ontario, CA (Ontario International) 13 2,440 2,583 2,888
Atlanta, GA (William B. Hartsfield International) 14 2,179 2,086 2,332
Covington/Cincinnati, OH (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International) 15 1,825 1,960 2,086
San Francisco, CA (San Francisco International) 16 2,534 2,025 2,070
Honolulu, HI (Honolulu International) 17 1,383 1,578 1,941
Dayton, OH (James M. Cox Dayton International) 18 4,466 2,887 1,794
Seattle, WA (Seattle-Tacoma International) 19 2,120 1,915 1,761
Phoenix, AZ (Sky Harbor International) 20 1,841 1,676 1,735
Portland, OR (Portland International) 21 1,764 1,615 1,632
Denver, CO (Denver International) 22 1,800 1,606 1,565
Boston, MA (Logan International) 23 1,405 1,302 1,272
Rockford, IL (Greater Rockford) 24 1,308 1,361 1,261
Orlando, FL (Orlando International) 25 1,344 1,222 1,246
Minneapolis, MN (Minneapolis-St. Paul International) 26 1,243 1,173 1,242
Fairbanks, AK (Fairbanks International) 27 1,110 1,208 1,237
Salt Lake City, UT (Salt Lake City International) 28 1,503 1,213 1,166
San Juan, PR (Luis Munoz Marin International) 29 970 835 1,073
Houston, TX (George Bush Intercontinental) 30 959 925 964
Toledo, OH (Toledo Express) 31 1,772 1,153 945
Windsor Locks, CT (Bradley International) 32 1,021 963 905
Kansas City, MO (Kansas City International) 33 906 896 853
Columbia, SC (Columbia Metropolitan) 34 947 849 838
Fort Lauderdale, FL (Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International) 35 1,176 947 823
Austin, TX (Austin-Bergstrom International) 36 982 935 801
Seattle, WA (Boeing Field/King County International) 37 856 725 782
Charlotte, NC (Charlotte/Douglas International) 38 933 868 747
Fort Worth, TX (Fort Worth Alliance) 39 1,017 905 740
San Jose, CA (Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International) 40 686 767 717
Detroit, MI (Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County) 41 779 719 709
San Antonio, TX (San Antonio International) 42 651 593 683
Des Moines, IA (Des Moines International) 43 762 704 680
Chantilly, VA (Washington Dulles International) 44 793 725 677
San Diego, CA (San Diego International-Lindbergh Field) 45 709 713 653
Columbus, OH (Rickenbacker International) 46 619 557 651
Fort Wayne, IN (Fort Wayne International) 47 959 831 623
Albuquerque, NM (Albuquerque International Sunport) 48 651 618 619
Glen Burnie, MD (Baltimore-Washington International) 49 610 576 611
St. Louis, MO (Lambert-St Louis International) 50 671 722 600
Top 50 airports   127,424 122,519 128,223
United States, all airports   149,507 142,851 146,865
Top 50 as % of U.S. total   85% 86% 87%

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, ACAIS Database Report F5, CY 2002 and CY 2000, available at http://www2.faa.gov/arp/planning/statsas of Dec. 16, 2003.