# Bellingham International Airport (BLI)

> Bellingham, US · IATA: BLI · ICAO: KBLI · Medium Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `BLI` |
| ICAO | `KBLI` |
| City | Bellingham |
| Country | US |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 52 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| GPS | 48.79280, -122.53800 |

## Description

Bellingham International Airport (BLI/KBLI) is less a freight gateway than a border airport: it handled 529,000 passengers and 60,495 aircraft movements in 2024, yet its logistics relevance comes from sitting roughly 32 km south of the Canadian border and about 145 km north of Seattle. The Port of Bellingham owns and operates the field, whose catchment reaches well into Metro Vancouver. Demand softened in 2024, with enplanements down 14.31 percent to 266,703. The airport maintains a designated cargo area — a dedicated cargo apron, a cargo processing and holding building, truck docks and staging areas — but no scheduled freighter operator is confirmed there, so air cargo largely moves as belly capacity on scheduled flights, including Alaska Airlines services. As a US international airport with a CBP presence, BLI can process cross-border arrivals, though Seattle-Tacoma (SEA) remains the region's principal customs and air cargo gateway for overseas consignments. North of the line, Vancouver International (YVR) is the obvious alternative, at the cost of a customs border in the road leg; Interstate 5 links the airport directly into the Seattle-Vancouver trucking corridor.

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