MEI

Key Field / Meridian Regional Airport

ICAO KMEI32.3326°N 88.7519°W298 ft / 91 mMedium airport
On the map
Keyfield-ms-2mar1996
United States Geological Survey (USGS) · Public domain · Commons

Key Field / Meridian Regional Airport (IATA: MEI, ICAO: KMEI) is a medium airport in Meridian, Mississippi, United States. It opened in Apr 1940. It has 2 runways; the longest is 10,003 ft (3,049 m). In 2025 it handled 40 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1940–2003
APR 1940
OpenedKey Field / Meridian Regional Airport opens.
07 JUL 2003
MilestoneListed as National Register of Historic Places listed place.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
Meridian Regional Airport Terminal
01/19009° / 189° · LIT
LENGTH10,003 ft3,049 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
04/22044° / 224° · LIT
LENGTH5,052 ft1,540 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
54K
53K
58K
59K
48K
17K
24K
42K
38K
37K
40K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
250 km500 km100 mi200 mi300 mi400 miIAH · George Bush Intercontinental Airport · 422 mi / 679 kmIAHMEI

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MEI. From the Wikipedia article “Meridian Regional Airport” (revision of 5 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers40K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,172of 3,974 · #500 North America · #340 USLongest runway10,003 ft3,049 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,033of 29,823 · =222 North America · =172 USElevation298 ft91 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=31,362of 43,341 · =14,483 North America · =12,196 USAgeOpened 19402026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,114of 15,079 · =366 North America · =338 USRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 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

9 channels
A/DMERIDIAN APP/DEP120.500
ATISATIS126.475
CTAFCTAF119.800
GCAGCA125.125
GNDGND121.900
POSTANG OPS COMD POST29.230
RDOGREENWOOD RDO122.200
TWRTWR119.800
UNICUNICOM122.950