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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Owner | Kenton County Airport Board | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Operator | Kenton County Airport Board | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Serves | Cincinnati, Ohio/Covington, Kentucky | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | 2939 Terminal Drive Hebron, Kentucky |
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Elevation AMSL | 896 ft / 273 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°02′56″N 084°40′04″W / 39.04889°N 84.66778°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | www.cvgairport.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sources: Airport website
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Total passengers | 6,773,905 |
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Aircraft operations | 137,225 |
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Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (IATA: CVG, ICAO: KCVG, FAA LID: CVG) is a public international airport located in Hebron, Kentucky, United States. It serves the Greater Cincinnati metropolitan area. The airport's code, CVG, comes from the nearest major city at the time of its opening, Covington, Kentucky. CVG covers an area of 7,000 acres (28.3 km2). CVG is the only airport in Indiana, Kentucky, or Ohio that features nonstop service to Europe. The airport's international destinations include Cancún, Freeport, Montego Bay, Paris, Punta Cana, and Toronto. The airport is the busiest in Kentucky and the second busiest serving an Ohio metropolitan area.
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is the second smallest domestic hub for Delta Air Lines and plays host to the headquarters and main maintenance base for Delta Private Jets. The airport is the largest base for Allegiant Air that is not a vacation destination, largest market for Vacation Express, and the 6th largest market for Frontier Airlines. In addition to a rapidly diversifying list of passenger airlines, CVG is the fastest-growing cargo airport in North America. The airport will be the main hub for Amazon Prime Air, which will begin service in April 2017. It is one of three global hubs for DHL Aviation and DHL Express, ranking 6th in North America and 34th in the world for total cargo operations. The airport is headquarters and hub for Southern Air, which operates flights around the world for DHL Aviation. The airport offers non-stop passenger service to 57 destinations with 186 peak daily departures.