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Philadelphia International Airport | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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_aerial_view_2024.jpg) Philadelphia International Airport, as seen from the air in 2024, looking southeast | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Philadelphia Department of Aviation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Delaware Valley | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Philadelphia / Tincum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1925 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Operating base for | Frontier Airlines | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Time zone | EST (UTC−05:00) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−04:00) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 11 m / 36 ft | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°52′19″N 075°14′28″W / 39.87194°N 75.24111°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Philadelphia International Airport (IATA: PHL, ICAO: KPHL, FAA LID: PHL) is the primary international airport serving Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It served 12.4 million passengers annually in 2022, making it the busiest airport in Pennsylvania and the 21st-busiest airport in the United States. The airport is located 7 miles (11 km) from the city's downtown area and has 22 airlines that offer nearly 500 daily departures to more than 130 destinations worldwide.[3]
The airport is the fifth-largest hub for American Airlines and serves as American Airlines' primary hub in the Northeastern United States and its primary European and transatlantic gateway. The airport is a regional cargo hub for UPS Airlines and a focus city for Frontier Airlines. The airport has service to cities in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. As of 2019, the airport offers flights to 140 destinations, 102 of which are domestic and 38 of which international.
Much of the airport property is in the city of Philadelphia. Terminal A, the international terminal, and the western and southern ends of the airfield,[4] are in Tinicum Township, Delaware County.[5] PHL covers 2,302 acres (932 ha) and has four runways.[2][6]
Philadelphia International Airport is an important component of the economies of Philadelphia, the Delaware Valley metropolitan region to which it belongs, and Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth's Aviation Bureau reported in its Pennsylvania Air Service Monitor that the total economic impact made by the state's airports in 2004 was $22 billion. In 2017, the airport commissioned a new economic impact report, which found that it accounted for $15.4 billion in economic activity, $5.4 billion in total earnings, and over 96,000 direct and indirect jobs.[7] In October 2022, the airport gained a direct connection to a Colonial Pipeline fuel supply.[8]
- ^ "PHL Aviation Activity Report-December 2023" (PDF). phl.org. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
- ^ a b FAA Airport Form 5010 for PHL PDF, effective September 5, 2024.
- ^ "About Us". Archived from the original on July 24, 2019. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
- ^ "Map". Philadelphia International Airport. Retrieved June 26, 2023. - Compare this map to that of Tinicum Township, which also indicates Philadelphia's boundaries.
- ^ "2020 Census – Census Block Map: Tinicum township, PA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. p. 2 (PDF p. 3/3). Retrieved June 25, 2023.
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- ^ "PHL airport data at skyvector.com". skyvector.com. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
- ^ "Manta - The Place for Small Business". Manta.
- ^ "Colonial Pipeline completes Philadelphia International Airport connection". PR Newswire. October 14, 2022. Retrieved October 31, 2022.