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Baltimore/Washington International Airport
Airport near Baltimore, Maryland, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (IATA: BWI, ICAO: KBWI, FAA LID: BWI) is an international airport in Anne Arundel County, Maryland,[2] located 9 mi (14 km) south of downtown Baltimore and 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Washington, D.C.[6][7]
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
Owner/Operator | Maryland Aviation Administration (MDOT MAA)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Location | Anne Arundel County, Maryland, U.S.[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
Opened | June 24, 1950; 74 years ago (1950-06-24) | ||||||||||||||||||
Operating base for | Southwest Airlines[3] | ||||||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 143 ft / 44 m | ||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°10′31″N 76°40′06″W | ||||||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||
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BWI is one of three major airports that serve the Washington–Baltimore metropolitan area.[8] Dulles International Airport (IAD), in Dulles, Virginia, and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), in Crystal City, Virginia, are the other two.
The airport serves as one of 12 U.S.-based operating bases for Southwest Airlines. In 2023, BWI recorded 12,849,636 passenger enplanements, making it the busiest airport in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, ranked at #23 in passenger enplanements in the U.S., followed by Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (#24) and Washington/Dulles Int'l Airport (#26).[9]
In 2005, the airport was named in honor of Thurgood Marshall, a Baltimore native and the first African American to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice.