# Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (SDF)

> Louisville, US · IATA: SDF · ICAO: KSDF · Large Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `SDF` |
| ICAO | `KSDF` |
| City | Louisville |
| Country | US |
| Type | Large Airport |
| Elevation | 153 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| Cargo Rank | #3 |
| GPS | 38.17440, -85.73600 |

## Description

A record 7.49 billion pounds — roughly 3.4 million tonnes — moved through Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (IATA: SDF, ICAO: KSDF) in 2025, up about 13 percent on the year. On loaded and unloaded cargo excluding transit freight, that made SDF the busiest field in North America in 2025 and one of the top three worldwide; ACI's 2024 world ranking had placed it fifth. The Kentucky hub owes that scale to UPS Worldport, the largest automated package-sorting facility on earth: 5.2 million square feet and 155 miles of conveyor handling more than 400,000 packages an hour during the overnight sort, connecting Louisville to 220 countries and territories. Passenger traffic is modest by comparison, around four to five million travelers a year, mainly on Southwest and Delta. Location does much of the work: SDF sits at the junction of Interstates 64, 65 and 71, within a one-day truck drive of about two-thirds of the US population, with CSX and Norfolk Southern providing Class I rail access. Shippers looking for capacity outside the UPS network usually turn to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky (CVG, a DHL and Amazon Air hub) or Memphis (MEM). Since 2019 the airport has carried the name of Louisville's most famous son, Muhammad Ali.

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