BLI

Bellingham International Airport

ICAO KBLI48.7928°N 122.5380°W171 ft / 52 mMedium airport
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Bellingham International Airport
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Bellingham International Airport (IATA: BLI, ICAO: KBLI) is a medium airport in Bellingham, Washington, United States. It opened in 1940. It has one runway, 6,700 ft (2,042 m) long, asphalt. It is operated by Port of Bellingham. In 2025 it handled 446 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1940–1940
1940
OpenedBellingham International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
16/34180° / 360° · LIT
LENGTH6,700 ft2,042 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
1.1M
888K
824K
729K
721K
655K
187K
316K
638K
622K
532K
446K
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Routes

6 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BLI. From the Wikipedia article “Bellingham International Airport” (revision of 19 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

2 airlines · destinations from BLI
Passenger2
MRRSan Juan Airlines4ASAlaska Airlines2

Former hub of Western.

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from BLI. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers446K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,166of 3,974 · #269 North America · #184 USLongest runway6,700 ft2,042 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,738of 29,858 · =929 North America · =709 USElevation171 ft52 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=34,687of 43,403 · =15,815 North America · =13,299 USAgeOpened 19402026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,114of 15,079 · =366 North America · =338 USRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =2,583 North America · =2,326 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

7 channels
A/DVICTORIA APP/DEP132.700
ATISATIS134.450
CTAFCTAF124.900
GNDGND127.400
RDOSEATTLE RDO122.150
TWRTWR124.900
UNICUNICOM122.950