Raleigh Durham International Airport (RDU)
A working profile of Raleigh Durham International Airport in Raleigh-durham, United States: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Raleigh Durham International Airport
- Serves: Raleigh-durham, United States
- Coordinates: 35.8776, -78.7875
- Elevation: 435 ft
- Time zone: America/New_York
Raleigh Durham International Airport sits inside the air network of United States. It shows 83 distinct scheduled departures across 39 destinations and 19 operating carriers in the OpenFlights routes table. Whether it works as a primary hub, a focus city, or a regional feeder depends on the size of those numbers. The bigger they get, the more likely the airport supports connecting traffic on top of its point-to-point passengers.
Destinations from RDU
Destinations are listed in order of how many distinct airline codes serve them. Click any code for the destination's own airport profile, or jump to the dedicated route page.
| IATA | Destination | City | Country | Route | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL | Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport | Atlanta | United States | RDU→ATL | 9 |
| LHR | London Heathrow Airport | London | United Kingdom | RDU→LHR | 6 |
| JFK | John F Kennedy International Airport | New York | United States | RDU→JFK | 4 |
| LAX | Los Angeles International Airport | Los Angeles | United States | RDU→LAX | 4 |
| LGA | La Guardia Airport | New York | United States | RDU→LGA | 3 |
| ORD | Chicago O'Hare International Airport | Chicago | United States | RDU→ORD | 3 |
| PHL | Philadelphia International Airport | Philadelphia | United States | RDU→PHL | 3 |
| FLL | Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport | Fort Lauderdale | United States | RDU→FLL | 3 |
| BWI | Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport | Baltimore | United States | RDU→BWI | 3 |
| MCO | Orlando International Airport | Orlando | United States | RDU→MCO | 3 |
| TPA | Tampa International Airport | Tampa | United States | RDU→TPA | 3 |
| CLT | Charlotte Douglas International Airport | Charlotte | United States | RDU→CLT | 2 |
| DCA | Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport | Washington | United States | RDU→DCA | 2 |
| DFW | Dallas Fort Worth International Airport | Dallas-Fort Worth | United States | RDU→DFW | 2 |
| MIA | Miami International Airport | Miami | United States | RDU→MIA | 2 |
| PIT | Pittsburgh International Airport | Pittsburgh | United States | RDU→PIT | 2 |
| CUN | Cancún International Airport | Cancun | Mexico | RDU→CUN | 2 |
| BOS | General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport | Boston | United States | RDU→BOS | 2 |
| LAS | McCarran International Airport | Las Vegas | United States | RDU→LAS | 2 |
| BNA | Nashville International Airport | Nashville | United States | RDU→BNA | 2 |
| MDW | Chicago Midway International Airport | Chicago | United States | RDU→MDW | 2 |
| SFO | San Francisco International Airport | San Francisco | United States | RDU→SFO | 2 |
| YYZ | Lester B. Pearson International Airport | Toronto | Canada | RDU→YYZ | 1 |
| BDL | Bradley International Airport | Windsor Locks | United States | RDU→BDL | 1 |
| CMH | John Glenn Columbus International Airport | Columbus | United States | RDU→CMH | 1 |
| CVG | Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport | Cincinnati | United States | RDU→CVG | 1 |
| DTW | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport | Detroit | United States | RDU→DTW | 1 |
| IND | Indianapolis International Airport | Indianapolis | United States | RDU→IND | 1 |
| MEM | Memphis International Airport | Memphis | United States | RDU→MEM | 1 |
| MSP | Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain Airport | Minneapolis | United States | RDU→MSP | 1 |
| SLC | Salt Lake City International Airport | Salt Lake City | United States | RDU→SLC | 1 |
| TTN | Trenton Mercer Airport | Trenton | United States | RDU→TTN | 1 |
| EWR | Newark Liberty International Airport | Newark | United States | RDU→EWR | 1 |
| IAD | Washington Dulles International Airport | Washington | United States | RDU→IAD | 1 |
| IAH | George Bush Intercontinental Houston Airport | Houston | United States | RDU→IAH | 1 |
| DEN | Denver International Airport | Denver | United States | RDU→DEN | 1 |
| HOU | William P Hobby Airport | Houston | United States | RDU→HOU | 1 |
| PHX | Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport | Phoenix | United States | RDU→PHX | 1 |
| STL | St Louis Lambert International Airport | St. Louis | United States | RDU→STL | 1 |
Airlines operating at RDU
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from RDU |
|---|---|---|---|
| DL | Delta Air Lines | United States | 20 |
| WN | Southwest Airlines | United States | 12 |
| AA | American Airlines | United States | 11 |
| US | US Airways | United States | 11 |
| FL | AirTran Airways | United States | 7 |
| UA | United Airlines | United States | 5 |
| B6 | JetBlue Airways | United States | 3 |
| AM | AeroMéxico | Mexico | 2 |
| AS | Alaska Airlines | ALASKA | 2 |
| AC | Air Canada | Canada | 1 |
| AF | Air France | France | 1 |
| AY | Finnair | Finland | 1 |
| AZ | Alitalia | Italy | 1 |
| BA | British Airways | United Kingdom | 1 |
| F9 | Frontier Airlines | United States | 1 |
| IB | Iberia Airlines | Spain | 1 |
| KL | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines | Netherlands | 1 |
| MH | Malaysia Airlines | Malaysia | 1 |
| VS | Virgin Atlantic Airways | United Kingdom | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into RDU typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL | Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport | Atlanta | United States | 9 |
| LHR | London Heathrow Airport | London | United Kingdom | 6 |
| JFK | John F Kennedy International Airport | New York | United States | 4 |
| LAX | Los Angeles International Airport | Los Angeles | United States | 4 |
| LGA | La Guardia Airport | New York | United States | 3 |
| ORD | Chicago O'Hare International Airport | Chicago | United States | 3 |
| PHL | Philadelphia International Airport | Philadelphia | United States | 3 |
| FLL | Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport | Fort Lauderdale | United States | 3 |
| BWI | Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport | Baltimore | United States | 3 |
| LAS | McCarran International Airport | Las Vegas | United States | 3 |
| MCO | Orlando International Airport | Orlando | United States | 3 |
| TPA | Tampa International Airport | Tampa | United States | 3 |
| CLT | Charlotte Douglas International Airport | Charlotte | United States | 2 |
| DCA | Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport | Washington | United States | 2 |
| DFW | Dallas Fort Worth International Airport | Dallas-Fort Worth | United States | 2 |
| MIA | Miami International Airport | Miami | United States | 2 |
| PIT | Pittsburgh International Airport | Pittsburgh | United States | 2 |
| CUN | Cancún International Airport | Cancun | Mexico | 2 |
| BOS | General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport | Boston | United States | 2 |
| HOU | William P Hobby Airport | Houston | United States | 2 |
| MDW | Chicago Midway International Airport | Chicago | United States | 2 |
| STL | St Louis Lambert International Airport | St. Louis | United States | 2 |
| YYZ | Lester B. Pearson International Airport | Toronto | Canada | 1 |
| BDL | Bradley International Airport | Windsor Locks | United States | 1 |
| CMH | John Glenn Columbus International Airport | Columbus | United States | 1 |
| CVG | Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport | Cincinnati | United States | 1 |
| DTW | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport | Detroit | United States | 1 |
| IND | Indianapolis International Airport | Indianapolis | United States | 1 |
| MEM | Memphis International Airport | Memphis | United States | 1 |
| MSP | Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain Airport | Minneapolis | United States | 1 |
| SLC | Salt Lake City International Airport | Salt Lake City | United States | 1 |
| TTN | Trenton Mercer Airport | Trenton | United States | 1 |
| EWR | Newark Liberty International Airport | Newark | United States | 1 |
| IAD | Washington Dulles International Airport | Washington | United States | 1 |
| IAH | George Bush Intercontinental Houston Airport | Houston | United States | 1 |
| SFO | San Francisco International Airport | San Francisco | United States | 1 |
| BNA | Nashville International Airport | Nashville | United States | 1 |
| DEN | Denver International Airport | Denver | United States | 1 |
| PHX | Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport | Phoenix | United States | 1 |
How to read this page
The destinations table is the core of an airport profile. It tells you, at a glance, where you can fly directly from RDU on a published schedule. The "operators" column doesn't measure frequency. It measures how many distinct airline codes file the route. So a "3" means three different carriers list RDU to that destination, even if one of them runs the route many times a day while the others only manage it weekly. For practical trip planning, use the table as a starting list and confirm the airline's own schedule for your travel dates.
The airline list shows which carriers treat RDU as part of their network. Many will be foreign carriers running one or two flights, while a handful will use the airport as a base. To see where those carriers fly elsewhere, click through to any airline page. Each airline profile includes a route sample drawn from the same dataset.