Table 3-9: Top 50 Airports by Landed Weight of All-Cargo Operations: 2003-2008

Table 3-9: Top 50 Airports by Landed Weight of All-Cargo Operations: 2003-2008

(In thousand short tons)

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Airport Rank in 2008 Landed weight
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Memphis, TN (Memphis International) 1 8,760 8,885 9,343 9,425 9,772 9,750
Anchorage, AK (Ted Stevens Anchorage International) 2 9,007 9,844 10,364 10,588 10,562 8,976
Louisville, KY (Louisville International-Standiford Field) 3 4,172 4,388 4,591 5,015 5,216 5,223
Miami, FL (Miami International) 4 3,239 3,423 3,550 3,591 3,715 3,494
Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles International) 5 3,120 3,062 2,927 3,627 3,431 2,876
Indianapolis, IN (Indianapolis International) 6 2,277 2,314 2,545 2,627 2,652 2,564
New York, NY (John F. Kennedy International) 7 2,937 2,898 2,811 2,615 2,557 2,222
Chicago, IL (Chicago O'Hare International) 8 2,351 2,359 2,412 2,208 2,201 2,103
Oakland, CA (Oakland International) 9 1,695 1,703 1,797 1,798 1,811 1,742
Newark, NJ (Newark Liberty International) 10 1,835 1,765 1,870 1,867 1,873 1,727
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (Dallas/Fort Worth International) 11 1,481 1,431 1,655 1,722 1,753 1,614
Ontario, CA (Ontario International) 12 1,338 1,326 1,344 1,401 1,394 1,350
Philadelphia, PA (Philadelphia International) 13 1,365 1,371 1,401 1,363 1,375 1,264
Atlanta, GA (Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International) 14 1,194 1,162 1,014 1,180 1,261 1,167
Honolulu, HI (Honolulu International) 15 1,017 970 828 979 1,134 1,032
San Francisco, CA (San Francisco International) 16 1,200 740 797 829 1,039 775
Houston, TX (George Bush Intercontinental) 17 666 697 710 696 769 754
Seattle, WA (Seattle-Tacoma International) 18 796 531 709 709 691 747
Rockford, IL (Chicago Rockford International) 19 625 677 696 696 737 710
Phoenix, AZ (Phoenix Sky Harbor International) 20 779 801 778 726 711 675
Portland, OR (Portland International) 21 749 718 747 730 713 656
Denver, CO (Denver International) 22 747 763 763 711 642 625
Minneapolis, MN (Minneapolis-St. Paul Intl./Wold-Chamberlain) 23 687 678 702 620 612 562
Salt Lake City, UT (Salt Lake City International) 24 599 621 590 548 535 521
Boston, MA (General Edward Lawrence Logan International) 25 600 586 574 550 530 492
Toledo, OH (Toledo Express) 26 461 502 493 460 471 470
Fort Worth, TX (Fort Worth Alliance) 27 348 374 501 644 557 449
Windsor Locks, CT (Bradley International) 28 412 445 484 477 459 433
Columbia, SC (Columbia Metropolitan) 29 305 442 392 396 406 431
San Juan, PR (Luis Munoz Marin International) 30 652 452 625 606 522 431
Orlando, FL (Orlando International) 31 545 580 578 481 483 425
Seattle, WA (Boeing Field/King County International) 32 382 446 433 392 403 418
San Antonio, TX (San Antonio International) 33 352 368 381 398 407 412
Columbus, OH (Rickenbacker International) 34 239 297 376 428 407 365
Detroit, MI (Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County) 35 364 349 379 395 398 354
Fort Lauderdale, FL (Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International) 36 386 367 372 383 378 336
San Diego, CA (San Diego International) 37 326 320 371 366 346 333
Aguadilla, PR (Rafael Hernandez) 38 313 274 286 297 311 322
Albuquerque, NM (Albuquerque International Sunport) 39 294 311 324 328 339 315
Sacramento, CA (Sacramento Mather) 40 256 252 258 257 319 299
Des Moines, IA (Des Moines International) 41 322 312 320 335 314 298
Austin, TX (Austin-Bergstrom International) 42 368 366 341 289 280 296
Kansas City, MO (Kansas City International) 43 425 472 463 398 341 294
Washington, DC (Dulles International) 44 308 305 305 280 290 285
Milwaukee, WI (General Mitchell International) 45 267 290 295 283 269 279
Spokane, WA (Spokane International) 46 228 250 269 257 253 252
Raleigh/Durham, NC (Raleigh-Durham International) 47 278 274 248 267 253 248
Pittsburgh, PA (Pittsbugh International) 48 224 234 236 233 246 245
Jacksonville, FL (Jacksonville International) 49 173 199 223 248 252 243
Las Vegas, NV (McCarran International) 50 193 224 258 250 240 238
Top 50 airports, total1   (R) 61,657 (R) 62,419 (R) 64,729 (R) 65,969 (R) 66,633 62,092
United States, all airports2   (R) 73,129 74,435 76,051 (R) 76,362 (R) 76,583 71,281
Top 50 airports as percent of U.S. total   (R) 84.31 (R) 83.86 (R) 85.11 (R) 86.39 (R) 87.01 (R) 87.11

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 Apr. 16, 2010.