# Garden City Regional Airport (GCK)

> Garden City, US · IATA: GCK · ICAO: KGCK · Medium Airport

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `GCK` |
| ICAO | `KGCK` |
| City | Garden City |
| Country | US |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 881 m |
| Cargo | ❌ |
| GPS | 37.92750, -100.72400 |

## Description

Southwest Kansas runs on cattle: the high plains around Garden City hold some of the largest feedlots and beef-packing plants in the United States, including the Tyson operation at nearby Holcomb. None of that beef leaves by air. Garden City Regional (GCK / KGCK), about nine miles south-east of town in Finney County, has a single scheduled link — American Eagle, operated by Envoy Air, to Dallas/Fort Worth — supported by the federal Essential Air Service programme at roughly USD 5.9 million a year. There are no freighter services, no cargo terminal and no customs post, so air freight is limited to the small belly capacity of regional jets. Chilled meat instead moves by refrigerated truck on US-50 and US-83 and by rail on the BNSF main line that runs through Garden City. Urgent air cargo and parcels are routed through Wichita Eisenhower (ICT) some 350 kilometres east or through Denver (DEN), with integrators serving south-west Kansas by road feeder from those hubs; Amarillo (AMA) in Texas, roughly 320 kilometres south, is the alternative in that direction.

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