Airports in Alabama
All airports closest to Alabama's geographic center, ranked by the number of scheduled departures on file. Click any IATA code to see the airport's destinations, operators, and route table.
| IATA | Airport | City | Departures |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHM | Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport | Birmingham | 36 |
| PNS | Pensacola Regional Airport | Pensacola | 21 |
| VPS | Destin-Ft Walton Beach Airport | Valparaiso | 10 |
| MGM | Montgomery Regional (Dannelly Field) Airport | MONTGOMERY | 7 |
| ECP | Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport | Panama City | 7 |
| DHN | Dothan Regional Airport | Dothan | 3 |
| NSE | Whiting Field Naval Air Station - North | Milton | 0 |
| BFM | Mobile Downtown Airport | Mobile | 0 |
| ANB | Anniston Regional Airport | Anniston | 0 |
| MXF | Maxwell Air Force Base | Montgomery | 0 |
| CEW | Bob Sikes Airport | Crestview | 0 |
| NPA | Pensacola Naval Air Station/Forrest Sherman Field | Pensacola | 0 |
| PAM | Tyndall Air Force Base | Panama City | 0 |
| SEM | Craig Field | Selma | 0 |
| PFN | Panama City-Bay Co International Airport | Panama City | 0 |
| TCL | Tuscaloosa Regional Airport | Tuscaloosa AL | 0 |
| DSI | Destin Executive Airport | Destin | 0 |
| AAF | Apalachicola Regional Airport | Apalachicola | 0 |
| GAD | Northeast Alabama Regional Airport | Gadsden | 0 |
| GUF | Jack Edwards Airport | Gulf Shores | 0 |
| EUF | Weedon Field | Eufala | 0 |
| AUO | Auburn University Regional Airport | Auburn | 0 |
| ASN | Talladega Municipal Airport | Talladega | 0 |
| TOI | Troy Municipal Airport at N Kenneth Campbell Field | Troy | 0 |
| ETS | Enterprise Municipal Airport | Enterprise | 0 |
| ALX | Thomas C Russell Field | Alexander City | 0 |
| EGI | Duke Field | Crestview | 0 |
| OZR | Cairns AAF (Fort Rucker) Air Field | Fort Rucker/Ozark | 0 |
About this list
Alabama's airport list is built by taking every US airport in the source dataset, computing the great-circle distance from each airport to all 52 state centroids, and grouping the airport under the closest one. Every state ends up with a populated page that way, including the small states that share their nearest international gateway with a neighbour. The flip side is that a handful of airports very close to a state border get filed under the neighbouring side.
The departures column reflects the number of distinct scheduled routes recorded against each airport in the OpenFlights routes table. A high count usually indicates a hub or focus city for one or more carriers; a low count typically points to seasonal or single-carrier service. For an authoritative real-time view, always confirm schedules with the operating airline.
Connecting onward
Most travelers in Alabama reach long-haul destinations by connecting through a larger national or international hub. On any airport page below, the destinations table links straight through to the destination airport, where you can repeat the drill-down to see how onward connections fan out from there. Browsing this way gives you a feel for how a state plugs into the wider US and global network. Even small airports usually sit one or two hops away from any major world city.