Logan International Airport

General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport
IATA: BOS ICAO: KBOS FAA LID: BOS WMO: 72509
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport)
Serves	Greater Boston and New England
Location	East Boston and Winthrop, Massachusetts, U.S.
Hub for	Cape Air
Focus city for	Delta Air Lines JetBlue
Elevation AMSL	20 ft / 6 m
Coordinates	42°21′47″N 071°00′23″W / 42.36306°N 71.00639°W / 42.36306; -71.00639
Website	www.massport.com/logan-airport
Maps
FAA airport diagram
BOS Location within Massachusetts / United States Show map of Massachusetts BOS BOS (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 4L/22R 7,861 2,396 Asphalt 4R/22L 10,006 3,050 Asphalt 9/27 7,001 2,134 Asphalt 14/32 5,000 1,524 Asphalt 15L/33R 2,557 779 Asphalt 15R/33L 10,084 3,073 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Aircraft operations 424,024[1] Passengers 40,941,925[1]
Source: FAA,[2] Massport.[3]

General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport (IATA: BOS, ICAO: KBOS, FAA LID: BOS) in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States (and partly in the Town of Winthrop, Massachusetts), is one of the 20 busiest airports in the U.S., with over 27 million passengers a year.^[3] The airport serves as a focus city for American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, US Airways, and JetBlue Airways.

It covers 2,400 acres (10 km²), has six runways, and employs an estimated 16,000 people.^[4] The airport has service to destinations in the United States, as well as Canada, the Cape Verde Islands, the Caribbean, Europe, and Mexico. The distinctive central control tower, nearly a dozen stories high, is a local landmark with its pair of segmented elliptical pylons and a six-story platform trussed between them.

Boston serves as a focus city for JetBlue Airways.^[5] Delta Air Lines and US Airways also carries out many operations from the airport, and all major airlines fly to Boston from all or the majority of their primary and secondary hubs. It is also a destination of many major European airlines, such as Lufthansa, British Airways, Norwegian Air Shuttle and Air France. The airport is a hub for regional airline Cape Air. The airport has service to destinations in the United States, as well as Africa,^[6] Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Mexico, and South America.^[7] Japan Airlines plans to inaugurate service to Tokyo in 2012, which would add the first service to Asia since 2001.^[8] As of July 2013, the service continues to operate with great success.

In 2010, it was the world's 28th busiest airport in terms of aircraft movements. The airport is also the 12th busiest airport in the U.S. based on international traffic. In 2010, it handled 3,681,739 international passengers.^[3] Logan Airport stimulates the New England regional economy by over $7 billion each year. It generates $559.4 million in state and local taxes.^[9]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Boston-Logan International Airport: Monthly Airport Traffic Summary - December 2017 (PDF) (Report). Massachusetts Port Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 9, 2018. Retrieved February 5, 2017.
2. ↑ FAA Airport Master Record for BOS (Form 5010 PDF). Retrieved February 3, 2012.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} "Airport Statistics". Massport. 2011. Archived from the original on May 29, 2010. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
4. ↑ "MASSPORT: Logan Airport: FAQ". Massport. 2008. Archived from the original on July 18, 2008. Retrieved November 21, 2010.
5. ↑ "JetBlue Airways - Press Releases". Investor.jetblue.com. 2011-08-10. Archived from the original on 2012-07-11. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
6. ↑ "Cape Verde". CIA World Factbook. 2010. Archived from the original on August 31, 2020. Retrieved December 26, 2010.
7. ↑ "direct flights from United States to Brazil : D Airfare". www.dairfare.com. 27 November 2008.
8. ↑ Katie Johnston Chase (May 27, 2011). "Japan Airlines sets Hub-Tokyo service". The Boston Globe.
9. ↑ Howe, Peter J. (March 8, 2006). "Logan impact to area economy put at $7.6b per year". The Boston Globe. Retrieved October 12, 2010.