Blue Grass Airport

Blue Grass Airport
Blue Grass Airport
	IATA: LEX; ICAO: KLEX; FAA LID: LEX;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Lexington-Fayette Urban County Airport Board
Serves	Lexington, Kentucky
Location	Fayette County
Elevation AMSL	979 ft / 298 m
Coordinates	38°02′11″N 084°36′21″W / 38.03639°N 84.60583°W
Website	bluegrassairport.com
Maps
	; FAA airport diagram
Runways
Statistics (2023)
Passenger volume
Passenger volume	1,354,136
Departing passengers	681,611
Commercial aircraft operations	17,720
Based aircraft (2021)	169
	Source: Blue Grass Airport, Federal Aviation Administration, BTS

Blue Grass Airport (IATA: LEX, ICAO: KLEX, FAA LID: LEX) is a public airport in Fayette County, Kentucky, United States, 6 miles west of downtown Lexington. Located among horse farms and situated directly across from Keeneland Race Course, Blue Grass Airport is the primary airport serving central and eastern Kentucky. More than 1.3 million passengers depart or arrive annually at Blue Grass Airport. In 2017, the airport served 1,316,847 passengers via four major airline carriers: Allegiant Air, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines.^[4]

^ "Blue Grass Airport Passenger Stats for 2023" (PDF). bluegrassairport.com. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
^ FAA Airport Form 5010 for LEX PDF, effective February 23, 2023.
^ Cite error: The named reference transtats.bts.gov was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Blue Grass Airport Passenger Statistics

[1] "Blue Grass Airport Passenger Stats for 2023" (PDF). bluegrassairport.com. Retrieved February 4, 2024.

[FAA-2] FAA Airport Form 5010 for LEX PDF, effective February 23, 2023.

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[4] Blue Grass Airport Passenger Statistics

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