BWI — Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
- IATA code
- BWI
- ICAO code
- KBWI
- City code
- WAS
- All Washington airports
- Passengers
- 23,698,404
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
- Nonstop routes
- 136
- With open traffic data
- Time zone
- UTC−5 / UTC−4
- America/New_York
- Elevation
- 45 m
- 148 ft
- Runways
- 3
- Longest 3,201 m
Local time now: —
More codes: airport codes starting with B
About BWI
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is a large airport serving Washington, United States. It opened in 1950 and is run by Maryland Aviation Administration. 23,698,404 passengers used it in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Open traffic data shows 136 nonstop routes from BWI. On tickets, the city code WAS covers it together with the other Washington airports.
Wikidata (CC0) · US BTS T-100. Sources
Busiest nonstop routes from BWI
| Route | Distance | Passengers / year |
|---|---|---|
| BWI → ATL | 928 km | 1,538,206 |
| BWI → MCO | 1,267 km | 1,237,056 |
| BWI → FLL | 1,489 km | 804,416 |
| BWI → DEN | 2,400 km | 780,630 |
| BWI → CLT | 581 km | 765,109 |
| BWI → BOS | 594 km | 729,691 |
| BWI → TPA | 1,356 km | 641,829 |
| BWI → MIA | 1,522 km | 600,956 |
| BWI → ORD | 1,000 km | 527,338 |
| BWI → LAS | 3,389 km | 509,280 |
| BWI → LAX | 3,748 km | 485,085 |
| BWI → DTW | 658 km | 465,434 |
| BWI → DAL | 1,945 km | 451,210 |
| BWI → MDW | 983 km | 442,148 |
| BWI → PVD | 527 km | 435,209 |
| BWI → BDL | 456 km | 420,846 |
| BWI → BUF | 453 km | 417,915 |
| BWI → ALB | 464 km | 417,861 |
| BWI → HOU | 2,005 km | 400,818 |
| BWI → DFW | 1,958 km | 399,264 |
| BWI → BNA | 945 km | 384,747 |
| BWI → IAH | 1,988 km | 384,594 |
| BWI → MSP | 1,507 km | 370,805 |
| BWI → SJU | 2,519 km | 369,198 |
| BWI → MHT | 606 km | 366,946 |
| BWI → RDU | 411 km | 348,668 |
| BWI → PHX | 3,216 km | 339,009 |
| BWI → ORF | 256 km | 338,305 |
| BWI → PWM | 727 km | 333,780 |
| BWI → RSW | 1,480 km | 331,608 |
| BWI → SAN | 3,693 km | 312,667 |
| BWI → JAX | 1,067 km | 307,961 |
| BWI → AUS | 2,159 km | 295,901 |
| BWI → ROC | 446 km | 295,077 |
| BWI → SFO | 3,954 km | 292,301 |
| BWI → ISP | 354 km | 280,625 |
| BWI → SRQ | 1,416 km | 276,028 |
| BWI → MSY | 1,607 km | 264,907 |
| BWI → CHS | 760 km | 264,307 |
| BWI → IND | 830 km | 260,410 |
Passengers on the route, both directions, over the period of each source: US DOT / BTS T-100 (Aug 2025 – Jul 2026) for routes touching the US, Eurostat (2024) for routes reported by European airports. Routes outside these are not counted.
Airlines at BWI
- WN Southwest Airlines · 144,508 flights
- DL Delta Air Lines · 10,500 flights
- UA United Air Lines · 8,321 flights
- AA American Airlines · 6,849 flights
- F9 Frontier Airlines · 6,828 flights
- NK Spirit Air Lines · 5,591 flights
- YX Republic Airline · 2,774 flights
- MQ Envoy Air · 1,879 flights
- AS Alaska Airlines · 1,360 flights
- FI Icelandair · 788 flights
- BA British Airways · 661 flights
- XP TEM Enterprises dba Avelo Airlines · 505 flights
- CM Compania Panamena (Copa) · 419 flights
- SY Sun Country Airlines · 302 flights
- 2T BermudAir · 270 flights
- B6 JetBlue Airways · 153 flights
- YV Mesa Airlines · 146 flights
- LF CFM · 133 flights
- OH PSA Airlines · 115 flights
- OO SkyWest Airlines · 60 flights
Departures and arrivals on scheduled passenger flights, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment. Sources
Punctuality
- Departures on time
- 72.9%
- Within 15 minutes of schedule
- Cancelled
- 1.8%
- Departures counted
- 93,196
- US domestic flights
US domestic flights of the larger US airlines, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. BTS Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance. Sources
Other airports in Washington
| Code | Airport | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| IAD | Washington Dulles International Airport | 73 km |
| DCA | Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport | 48 km |
Airports within 150 km
| Code | Airport | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| DOV | Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base | 104 km |
| ILG | Wilmington Airport | 107 km |
| HGR | Hagerstown Regional Richard A Henson Field | 109 km |
| LNS | Lancaster Airport | 110 km |
| MDT | Harrisburg International Airport | 113 km |
| SBY | Salisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport | 137 km |
| PHL | Philadelphia International Airport | 145 km |
Distance from BWI to the major hubs
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 3,201 m | 46 m | Asphalt |
| 15R/33L | 2,896 m | 46 m | Asphalt |
| 15L/33R | 1,524 m | 30 m | Asphalt |
OurAirports (public domain). Sources
Location
Baltimore, Maryland, United States · 39.1754, -76.6683
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