# Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI)

> Baltimore, US · IATA: BWI · ICAO: KBWI · Large Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `BWI` |
| ICAO | `KBWI` |
| City | Baltimore |
| Country | US |
| Type | Large Airport |
| Elevation | 45 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| GPS | 39.17540, -76.66830 |

## Description

Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (IATA: BWI, ICAO: KBWI) wears two very different hats: by day it is the East Coast's largest Southwest Airlines passenger base, and behind the scenes it is one of Amazon Air's regional sorting hubs, anchored by a roughly 200,000-square-foot warehouse within a cargo complex of about 395,000 square feet. Sitting in Maryland midway between Baltimore and Washington, the airport handled around 257,000 tonnes of freight and mail in 2025 – back above the roughly 238,500 tonnes of the previous year and good for about 30th place among US cargo airports. FedEx, UPS, Atlas Air and ABX Air, plus the belly capacity of numerous passenger carriers, round out the cargo mix, served on the ground by handlers such as Swissport and Menzies. Foreign Trade Zone 74, among the largest and most active in the United States, ties the airport to the nearby Port of Baltimore in a tight road–sea–air combination. Interstates 95, 195 and 295 reach across the Northeast, while an on-site MARC and Amtrak station links BWI to the passenger rail network. The airport is named for Thurgood Marshall, the first African American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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