# Orlando International Airport (MCO)

> Orlando, US · IATA: MCO · ICAO: KMCO · Large Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `MCO` |
| ICAO | `KMCO` |
| City | Orlando |
| Country | US |
| Type | Large Airport |
| Elevation | 29 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| GPS | 28.42940, -81.30900 |

## Description

Around 57.7 million passengers in 2025 make Orlando International Airport (IATA: MCO, ICAO: KMCO) Florida's busiest passenger hub and one of the busiest in the United States – yet for freight professionals the numbers read differently. Annual cargo throughput reached about 222,000 tonnes in 2024, second in the state behind Miami. FedEx and UPS run their own facilities on the field, Amazon Air serves Orlando regularly, and widebody belly space to Europe and the Gulf adds international lift. Typical loads: e-commerce parcels, spare parts for the theme-park and simulation industries, and pharma traffic from the Lake Nona medical cluster. Four parallel runways on roughly 13,000 acres – one of the largest airport footprints in the US – leave ample room for expansion, supported by Foreign Trade Zone No. 42. The SR 528 expressway reaches Port Canaveral in about 45 minutes, I-4 connects the entire central Florida corridor, and since 2023 Brightline trains stop directly at Terminal C. The code MCO, incidentally, preserves the field's past as McCoy Air Force Base, a B-52 station until 1975.

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