Baltimore/Washington International Airport
Rank Airline Passengers Share
1 Southwest Airlines 16,023,000 65.42%
2 Spirit Airlines 2,810,000 11.47%
3 Delta Air Lines 1,825,000 7.45%
4 American Airlines 1,507,000 6.15%
5 United Airlines 969,000 3.96%
6 Other 1,357,000 5.54%
Statistics -- Airline market share
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is an international airport in the eastern United States. It serves Baltimore, Maryland, and is one of three major airports serving the Baltimore-Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Located in an unincorporated area of Anne Arundel County, the airport is 9 miles (14 km) south of downtown Baltimore and northeast of Washington D.C. It is the busiest airport in Maryland, and the busiest airport in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. It is commonly referred to as BWI or BWI Marshall. The airport is named after Thurgood Marshall, a Baltimore native who was the first African American to serve as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. This airport also draws large numbers of travelers from the Richmond, Harrisburg and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. BWI is a focus city for Southwest Airlines, and is the second-largest airport by number of departures for that airline after Chicago-Midway. In 2014 Southwest accounted for 71% of the traffic at BWI. BWI also serves as a hub for Southern Airways Express. A record 25.1 million passengers traveled through BWI in 2016, an increase of 5.45% over the previous year. BWI was ranked as the 23rd-busiest airport in North America and the 75th-busiest airport in the world in 2014 by the number of passengers.