MKE
General Mitchell International Airport
General Mitchell International Airport (IATA: MKE, ICAO: KMKE) is a large airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It opened in 1920. It has 5 runways; the longest is 9,990 ft (3,045 m). It is operated by Milwaukee County. In 2025 it handled 5.8 million passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1920–19851920
OpenedGeneral Mitchell International Airport opens.
06 SEP 1985
DisasterMidwest Express Airlines Flight 105.31 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF01L/19R007° / 187° · LIT
LENGTH9,990 ft3,045 mWIDTH200 ft61 mSURFACEAsphalt
07R/25L072° / 252° · LIT
LENGTH8,300 ft2,530 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
13/31132° / 312° · LIT
LENGTH5,537 ft1,688 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
07L/25R072° / 252° · LIT
LENGTH4,797 ft1,462 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt
01R/19L007° / 187° · LIT
LENGTH4,182 ft1,275 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2014–20256.6M
6.6M
6.8M
7.0M
7.0M
6.8M
2.6M
4.5M
5.4M
5.9M
6.2M
5.8M
141516171819202122232425
Routes
34 destinations · 2 countriesYear-round29
ORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · United Express, American Eagle108 km67 miMDWChicago Midway International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines130 km81 miDTWDetroit Metropolitan Wayne County AirportUnited States · Delta Connection, Delta Air Lines381 km237 miMSPMinneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain FieldUnited States · Delta Connection, Delta Air Lines478 km297 miSTLSt. Louis Lambert International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines511 km318 miMCIKansas City International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines700 km435 miBNANashville International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines766 km476 miDCARonald Reagan Washington National AirportUnited States · American Eagle, Southwest Airlines1,019 km633 miBWIBaltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines1,029 km639 miCLTCharlotte Douglas International AirportUnited States · American Airlines1,048 km651 miATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines1,078 km670 miPHLPhiladelphia International AirportUnited States · American Eagle1,108 km688 miEWRNewark Liberty International AirportUnited States · United Express1,163 km723 miLGALaGuardia AirportUnited States · Delta Connection1,185 km736 miJFKJohn F. Kennedy International AirportUnited States · Delta Connection1,197 km744 miDALDallas Love FieldUnited States · Southwest Airlines1,369 km851 miDFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · American Airlines1,374 km854 miBOSBoston Logan International AirportUnited States · Delta Connection1,380 km857 miDENDenver International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines1,438 km894 miIAHGeorge Bush Intercontinental AirportUnited States · United Express1,586 km985 miAUSAustin Bergstrom International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines1,662 km1,033 miMCOOrlando International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines1,719 km1,068 miTPATampa International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines1,733 km1,077 miRSWSouthwest Florida International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines1,908 km1,186 miSLCSalt Lake City International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines2,002 km1,244 miPHXPhoenix Sky Harbor International AirportUnited States · American Airlines, Southwest Airlines2,346 km1,458 miLASHarry Reid International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines2,447 km1,520 miSEASeattle–Tacoma International AirportUnited States · Alaska Airlines2,719 km1,690 miSANSan Diego International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines2,793 km1,735 miSeasonal11
CLTCharlotte Douglas International AirportUnited States · American Eagle1,048 km651 miPHLPhiladelphia International AirportUnited States · American Airlines1,108 km688 miBOSBoston Logan International AirportUnited States · JetBlue Airways1,380 km857 miECPNorthwest Florida Beaches International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines1,412 km877 miTPATampa International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines1,733 km1,077 miSRQSarasota Bradenton International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines1,795 km1,115 miFLLFort Lauderdale Hollywood International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines2,004 km1,245 miMIAMiami International AirportUnited States · American Eagle, Southwest Airlines2,029 km1,261 miPHXPhoenix Sky Harbor International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines2,346 km1,458 miCUNCancún International AirportMexico · Southwest Airlines2,438 km1,515 miLASHarry Reid International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines2,447 km1,520 miMost destinationsSouthwest Airlines 20American Eagle 5Delta Connection 5Frontier Airlines 5Delta Air Lines 4American Airlines 4
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MKE. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport” (revision of 25 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
13 channelsAPPMILWAUKEE APP118.000
ATISATIS126.400
AWOSAWOS148.350
CLDMILWAUKEE CLNC DEL120.800
DEPMILWAUKEE DEP119.650
GNDMILWAUKEE GND121.800
MISC128ARW ANG COMD POST32.100
OPS440 BASE OPS31.420
POST440 AW COMD POST37.610
PTDPTD37.610
RDOGREEN BAY RDO122.400
TWRMILWAUKEE TWR119.100
UNICUNICOM122.950