Indianapolis International Airport

Indianapolis International is the main airport for central Indiana and home to the second-largest FedEx Express hub in the world after Memphis, a position that makes IND one of the most significant cargo airports globally even though it ranks only in the mid-30s for US passenger volume. Located about 11 km (7 mi) southwest of downtown Indianapolis at 797 ft (243 m) elevation, IND handled approximately 10M passengers in 2024 and routinely processes more than 1M tonnes of air freight a year from the FedEx Indianapolis hub alone. The Col. H. Weir Cook Terminal, opened in 2008, has been repeatedly rated among the best airports in North America in Airports Council International passenger-satisfaction surveys. It concentrates all commercial service into two concourses (A and B) with a unified security checkpoint, a layout that has become a reference model for mid-sized US airports. Southwest, Delta, American, United, Allegiant, and a growing low-cost roster account for most of the 181 scheduled routes and 93 destinations served by 32 airlines, with international service to Paris (Delta), Cancun, and a seasonal mix of Caribbean and Mexican leisure markets. Three runways — an 11,200 ft (3,414 m) primary strip (05L/23R), a 10,000 ft (3,048 m) parallel (05R/23L), and a 7,278 ft (2,219 m) crosswind (14/32) — are all concrete or asphalt-concrete, providing round-the-clock capacity for the FedEx night operation that processes packages between East Coast, Midwest, and West Coast banks. IND's economic importance extends beyond passenger numbers: the FedEx hub is among the largest private employers in the state, and the airport's role as an all-points cargo pivot for the US interior is a primary reason Indianapolis consistently appears on global logistics-ranking tables.