Portland International Airport

Portland International is the largest airport in Oregon and the primary commercial gateway for the Pacific Northwest below Seattle, handling roughly 19.8M passengers (2024) across a single terminal that has, for most of the past three decades, topped traveler satisfaction surveys for large U.S. airports. PDX sits on 3,000 acres (1,214 ha) along the Columbia River at 31 ft (9 m) elevation, with three runways — two parallel 10R/28L (11,000 ft / 3,353 m) and 10L/28R (9,825 ft / 2,995 m) plus a 6,000 ft (1,829 m) crosswind. Alaska Airlines operates its second-largest hub here after Seattle, with Horizon Air (its regional subsidiary) headquartered on-field; Southwest, Delta, United, and American all maintain sizeable operations, and PDX is the principal Oregon and southwest Washington gateway for Asian carriers including Japan Airlines, Condor (seasonal transatlantic to Frankfurt), and Icelandair. The airport serves 121 destinations across 37 airlines — an unusually wide network for a non-hub metro of its size — with a route focus on the U.S. West, Hawaii, Mexico, and one-stop Asia-Europe itineraries. A 1M sqft (93,000 sqm) Main Terminal expansion completed in 2024 added a new 9-acre mass-timber roof — one of the largest single-piece glulam roofs in the world — using locally sourced Douglas fir, doubling security capacity and consolidating all 35 gates under one pre-security concourse. PDX is also notable as the first U.S. airport to achieve LEED Platinum for a new terminal and for its long-running regulatory role as the only major U.S. airport where passengers can leave the secure zone, dine in the city-priced food court, and return through security without a boarding pass under the 'PDX Meetup' program.