Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport

ICAO PANC61.1790°N 149.9926°W151 ft / 46 mLarge airport

Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (IATA: ANC, ICAO: PANC) is a large airport in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. It opened in 1951. It has 3 runways; the longest is 12,400 ft (3,780 m). It is operated by Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. In 2025 it handled 5.4 million passengers.

Timeline

7 events · 1951–2002

1951

OpenedTed Stevens Anchorage International Airport opens.

16 DEC 1975

DisasterJapan Airlines Flight 422.

13 JAN 1977

DisasterJapan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045.5 killed

08 JUN 1983

DisasterReeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8.No deaths

23 DEC 1983

Disaster1983 Anchorage runway collision.No deaths

31 MAR 1993

DisasterJapan Airlines Flight 46E.No deaths

09 OCT 2002

DisasterNorthwest Airlines Flight 85.No deaths

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

07R/25L090° / 270° · LIT

LENGTH12,400 ft3,780 mWIDTH200 ft61 mSURFACEAsphalt

15/33165° / 345° · LIT

LENGTH10,865 ft3,312 mWIDTH200 ft61 mSURFACEAsphalt

07L/25R090° / 270° · LIT

LENGTH10,600 ft3,231 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

5.2M

5.1M

5.2M

5.5M

2.3M

4.3M

5.1M

5.3M

5.5M

5.4M

141516171819202122232425

Routes

30 destinations · 11 countries

Year-round9

Seasonal3

YVRVancouver International AirportCanada · Air Canada2,136 km1,327 mi YYCCalgary International AirportCanada · WestJet2,451 km1,523 mi FRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Condor Flugdienst7,502 km4,662 mi

Cargo20

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ANC. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport” (revision of 22 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

19 airlines · destinations from ANC

Hub airlines6

NCNorthern Air Cargo1 ASAlaska Airlines KOAlaska Central Express DOJJustice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System L2Lynden Air Cargo KSPenAir

Passenger7

—Aleutian Airways7 ACAir Canadaseasonal · 1 DECondor Flugdienstseasonal · 1 GVGrant Aviation1

—Katmai Air1

RYARyan Air Services1 WSWestJetseasonal · 1

Cargo6

FXFedEx Express14 ETEthiopian Airlines3 5XUPS Airlines2 MZNAmazon Air1 —Awesome Cargo1 BREVA Air1

Former hub of Era Aviation, Hageland Aviation Services, Ravn Alaska, Reeve Aleutian Airways and Wien Air Alaska.

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from ANC. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers5.4M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#321of 3,974 · #73 North America · #58 US Longest runway12,400 ft3,780 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=240of 29,858 · =57 North America · =47 US Elevation151 ft46 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=35,224of 43,403 · =16,020 North America · =13,454 US AgeOpened 19512026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,751of 15,079 · =2,596 North America · =2,536 US Runways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,978 · =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

12 channels

A/DAPP/DEP119.100

A/DAPP/DEP123.800

ATISATIS118.400

AWOSTWEB114.300

CLDCLNC DEL119.400

FSSKENAI RDO122.200

GNDGND121.900

MISCSAN FRANCISCO ARINC1133.000

POSTCAMPER140.150

RFSSKENAI RDO122.550

TWRTWR118.300

UNICUNICOM122.950