PHL
Philadelphia International Airport
Philadelphia International Airport (IATA: PHL, ICAO: KPHL) is a large airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It opened in 1940. It has 4 runways; the longest is 12,000 ft (3,658 m). In 2025 it handled 29.7 million passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1940–20061940
OpenedPhiladelphia International Airport opens.
07 FEB 2006
DisasterUPS Airlines Flight 1307.No deaths
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF09R/27L075° / 255° · LIT
LENGTH12,000 ft3,658 mWIDTH200 ft61 mSURFACEAsphalt
09L/27R075° / 255° · LIT
LENGTH9,500 ft2,896 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
17/35159° / 339° · LIT
LENGTH6,500 ft1,981 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
08/26075° / 256° · LIT
LENGTH5,001 ft1,524 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2014–202530.7M
30.5M
29.4M
28.7M
30.7M
32.2M
11.8M
19.7M
25.0M
27.4M
30.3M
29.7M
141516171819202122232425
Routes
90 destinations · 31 countriesYear-round52
IADWashington Dulles International AirportUnited States · United Express216 km134 miBDLBradley International AirportUnited States · American Airlines314 km195 miPITPittsburgh International AirportUnited States · American Airlines430 km267 miBOSBoston Logan International AirportUnited States · Delta Connection, American Airlines450 km280 miRDURaleigh-Durham International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines542 km337 miCLTCharlotte Douglas International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines721 km448 miDTWDetroit Metropolitan Wayne County AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, Delta Connection728 km452 miCHSCharleston International AirportUnited States · American Airlines886 km551 miATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines1,072 km666 miBNANashville International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines1,084 km674 miORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines1,088 km676 miJAXJacksonville International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines1,195 km743 miSTLSt. Louis Lambert International AirportUnited States · American Airlines1,306 km812 miMCOOrlando International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines1,389 km863 miTPATampa International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines1,483 km921 miDJTPresident Donald J. Trump International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines1,534 km953 miSRQSarasota Bradenton International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines1,542 km958 miFLLFort Lauderdale Hollywood International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines1,601 km995 miRSWSouthwest Florida International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines1,601 km995 miMIAMiami International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines1,634 km1,015 miNASLynden Pindling International AirportBahamas · American Airlines1,662 km1,033 miMCIKansas City International AirportUnited States · American Airlines1,667 km1,036 miMSYLouis Armstrong New Orleans International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines1,751 km1,088 miEYWKey West International AirportUnited States · American Airlines1,809 km1,124 miPLSProvidenciales International AirportTurks & Caicos Islands · American Airlines2,032 km1,263 miDFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines2,093 km1,301 miIAHGeorge Bush Intercontinental AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, United Express, American Airlines2,129 km1,323 miAUSAustin Bergstrom International AirportUnited States · American Airlines2,298 km1,428 miCUNCancún International AirportMexico · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines2,367 km1,471 miMBJSangster International AirportJamaica · American Airlines2,390 km1,485 miPUJPunta Cana International AirportDominican Republic · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines2,459 km1,528 miDENDenver International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines2,500 km1,553 miSJULuis Munoz Marin International AirportPuerto Rico · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines2,543 km1,580 miSXMPrincess Juliana International AirportSint Maarten · American Airlines2,693 km1,673 miAUAQueen Beatrix International AirportAruba · American Airlines3,086 km1,918 miSLCSalt Lake City International AirportUnited States · American Airlines3,093 km1,922 miPHXPhoenix Sky Harbor International AirportUnited States · American Airlines3,332 km2,070 miLASHarry Reid International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines3,494 km2,171 miSANSan Diego International AirportUnited States · American Airlines3,806 km2,365 miSEASeattle–Tacoma International AirportUnited States · American Airlines, Alaska Airlines3,818 km2,372 miLAXLos Angeles International AirportUnited States · American Airlines3,856 km2,396 miSFOSan Francisco International AirportUnited States · American Airlines4,048 km2,515 miDUBDublin AirportIreland · American Airlines, Aer Lingus5,253 km3,264 miLISLisbon Humberto Delgado AirportPortugal · American Airlines5,551 km3,449 miLHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · American Airlines, British Airways5,690 km3,536 miMADAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas AirportSpain · American Airlines5,909 km3,672 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · American Airlines5,985 km3,719 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · American Airlines5,997 km3,726 miBCNJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat AirportSpain · American Airlines6,300 km3,915 miZRHZürich AirportSwitzerland · American Airlines6,460 km4,014 miFCORome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International AirportItaly · American Airlines7,017 km4,360 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways10,919 km6,785 miSeasonal39
PVDRhode Island T. F. Green International AirportUnited States · American Airlines382 km237 miPITPittsburgh International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines430 km267 miBTVPatrick Leahy Burlington International AirportUnited States · American Airlines540 km336 miYYZToronto Pearson International AirportCanada · Air Canada558 km347 miCLECleveland Hopkins International AirportUnited States · American Airlines583 km362 miPWMPortland International JetportUnited States · American Airlines586 km364 miYULMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International AirportCanada · Air Canada634 km394 miCMHJohn Glenn Columbus International AirportUnited States · American Airlines652 km405 miBGRBangor International AirportUnited States · American Airlines760 km472 miMYRMyrtle Beach International AirportUnited States · American Airlines763 km474 miCVGCincinnati Northern Kentucky International AirportUnited States · American Airlines814 km506 miINDIndianapolis International AirportUnited States · American Airlines944 km587 miSAVSavannah Hilton Head International AirportUnited States · American Airlines1,014 km630 miMKEGeneral Mitchell International AirportUnited States · American Airlines1,108 km688 miYHZHalifax / Stanfield International AirportCanada · American Airlines1,112 km691 miBDAL.F. Wade International AirportBermuda · American Airlines1,262 km784 miPNSPensacola International AirportUnited States · American Airlines1,504 km935 miMSPMinneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain FieldUnited States · American Airlines1,574 km978 miSTICibao International AirportDominican Republic · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines2,319 km1,441 miGCMOwen Roberts International AirportCayman Islands · American Airlines2,362 km1,468 miSATSan Antonio International AirportUnited States · American Airlines2,404 km1,494 miSDQLas Américas International AirportDominican Republic · American Airlines2,444 km1,519 miSTTCyril E. King AirportU.S. Virgin Islands · American Airlines2,589 km1,609 miUVFHewanorra International AirportSt. Lucia · American Airlines3,224 km2,003 miBGIGrantley Adams International AirportBarbados · American Airlines3,355 km2,085 miLIRDaniel Oduber Quirós International AirportCosta Rica · American Airlines3,411 km2,119 miPDXPortland International AirportUnited States · American Airlines, Alaska Airlines3,863 km2,400 miKEFKeflavik International AirportIceland · American Airlines4,303 km2,674 miEDIEdinburgh AirportUnited Kingdom · American Airlines5,374 km3,339 miOPOFrancisco de Sá Carneiro AirportPortugal · American Airlines5,481 km3,406 miCPHCopenhagen Kastrup AirportDenmark · American Airlines6,336 km3,937 miNCENice-Côte d'Azur AirportFrance · American Airlines6,557 km4,074 miMXPMilan Malpensa International AirportItaly · American Airlines6,563 km4,078 miPRGVáclav Havel Airport PragueCzechia · American Airlines6,700 km4,163 miVCEVenice Marco Polo AirportItaly · American Airlines6,819 km4,237 miVIEVienna International AirportAustria · American Airlines6,955 km4,322 miBUDBudapest Liszt Ferenc International AirportHungary · American Airlines7,166 km4,453 miNAPNaples International AirportItaly · American Airlines7,215 km4,483 miATHAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International AirportGreece · American Airlines8,083 km5,023 miMost destinationsAmerican Airlines 85Frontier Airlines 24United Express 2Delta Connection 2Alaska Airlines 2Air Canada 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from PHL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Philadelphia International Airport” (revision of 24 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 channelsAPPAPP123.800
ARRPRM120.425
ATISATIS133.400
CLDCLNC DEL118.850
DEPDEP119.750
GNDGND121.900
TWRTWR118.500
UNICUNICOM122.950