Newark Liberty International Airport

ICAO KEWR40.6894°N 74.1705°W18 ft / 5 mLarge airport

Newark Liberty International Airport (IATA: EWR, ICAO: KEWR) is a large airport in Newark, New Jersey, United States. It opened on 1 Oct 1928. It has 3 runways; the longest is 11,000 ft (3,353 m). It is operated by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In 2025 it handled 47.0 million passengers.

Timeline

5 events · 1928–1997

01 OCT 1928

OpenedNewark Liberty International Airport opens.

16 DEC 1951

Disaster1951 Miami Airlines C-46 crash.58 killed

22 JAN 1952

DisasterAmerican Airlines Flight 6780.30 killed

11 FEB 1952

DisasterNational Airlines Flight 101.

31 JUL 1997

DisasterFedEx Express Flight 14.No deaths

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · 1 helipad · FAA diagram PDF

04L/22R026° / 206° · LIT

LENGTH11,000 ft3,353 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

04R/22L026° / 206° · LIT

LENGTH9,999 ft3,048 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

11/29095° / 275° · LIT

LENGTH6,725 ft2,050 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

35.6M

37.5M

39.9M

43.2M

45.7M

46.4M

16.0M

29.2M

43.5M

49.2M

49.1M

47.0M

141516171819202122232425

Routes

171 destinations · 58 countries

Year-round117

Seasonal55

Cargo6

PHLPhiladelphia International AirportUnited States · UPS Airlines128 km80 mi SDFLouisville Muhammad Ali International AirportUnited States · UPS Airlines1,031 km641 mi RFDChicago Rockford International AirportUnited States · UPS Airlines1,254 km779 mi DFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · UPS Airlines2,205 km1,370 mi ONTOntario International AirportUnited States · UPS Airlines3,868 km2,403 mi CGNCologne Bonn AirportGermany · UPS Airlines6,081 km3,779 mi

Most destinationsUnited Airlines 143Allegiant Air 7JetBlue Airways 6UPS Airlines 6Delta Air Lines 5Porter Airlines 3

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from EWR. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Newark Liberty International Airport” (revision of 26 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers47.0M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#43of 3,974 · #14 North America · #14 US Longest runway11,000 ft3,353 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=659of 29,823 · =157 North America · =129 US Elevation18 ft5 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,611of 43,341 · =18,792 North America · =15,374 US AgeOpened 19282026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=323of 15,079 · =58 North America · =57 US Runways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,943 · =83 North America · =81 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

APPNEW YORK APP127.600

ATISATIS115.700

CLDCLNC DEL118.850

DEPNEW YORK DEP119.200

GNDGND121.800

TWRTWR118.300

UNICUNICOM122.950