Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport

41°31′03″N 81°41′00″W / 41.51750°N 81.68333°W / 41.51750; -81.68333

Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport
Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport control tower
IATA: BKL ICAO: KBKL FAA LID: BKL
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Cleveland
Operator	Department of Port Control
Serves	Cleveland
Location	Downtown Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (-5)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (-4)
Elevation AMSL	583 ft / 178 m
Website	burkeairport.com
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 6L/24R 6,198 1,889 Asphalt 6R/24L 5,197 1,584 Asphalt
Statistics (2011)
Aircraft operations 64,358 Based aircraft 31
Sources: FAA[1] & airport website[2]

Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport (IATA: BKL, ICAO: KBKL, FAA LID: BKL) is a city-owned airport on the shore of Lake Erie, in the northeast part of downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States.^[1] It's classified as a general aviation airport and is an FAA designated reliever to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE), which is Greater Cleveland's primary airport. In 2018, based on FAA data, Burke Lakefront was the seventh busiest airport in the state of Ohio. It is named after former Cleveland mayor and U.S. senator Thomas A. Burke.

Cleveland Burke Lakefront is one of three airports serving the Cleveland area. The other two are Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and Akron-Canton Regional.^[3] The airport is owned by the city of Cleveland, which also operates Hopkins. The airport is operated by the city’s Department of Port Control.

The airport's total operations have decreased over the past two decades from 100,321 in 2000 to 40,185 in 2019. Between 2018 and 2019, operations at Burke increased by 16.5% from the 34,497 operations in 2018. Additionally, the airport is frequently used by professional sports team charter flights due to its proximity to FirstEnergy Stadium, Progressive Field, and Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. The airport also serves as the operational hub for Cleveland Clinic's fleet of air ambulances.