ELP
El Paso International Airport
El Paso International Airport (IATA: ELP, ICAO: KELP) is a large airport in El Paso, Texas, United States. It opened in 1928. It has 3 runways; the longest is 12,020 ft (3,664 m). In 2025 it handled 3.9 million passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 1928–19281928
OpenedEl Paso International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF04/22050° / 230° · LIT
LENGTH12,020 ft3,664 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
08R/26L093° / 273° · LIT
LENGTH9,025 ft2,751 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
08L/26R093° / 273° · LIT
LENGTH5,499 ft1,676 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEConcrete
Passengers per year
2014–20252.8M
2.8M
2.9M
3.0M
3.3M
3.5M
1.5M
2.9M
3.8M
4.0M
4.0M
3.9M
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Routes
5 destinations · 1 countryYear-round5
DFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines885 km550 miDENDenver International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines908 km564 miLASHarry Reid International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines938 km583 miATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines2,059 km1,279 miSEASeattle–Tacoma International AirportUnited States · Alaska Airlines2,201 km1,368 miMost destinationsFrontier Airlines 3Delta Air Lines 1Alaska Airlines 1
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ELP. From the Wikipedia article “El Paso International Airport” (revision of 22 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: 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
8 channelsAPPAPP119.150
ATISATIS120.000
CLDCLNC DEL125.000
DEPDEP119.150
GNDGND121.900
RDOALBUQUERQUE RDO122.400
TWRTWR118.300
UNICUNICOM122.950