Newark Liberty International Airport | |||||||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
Owner | Cities of Elizabeth and Newark | ||||||||||||||||||
Operator | Port Authority of New York and New Jersey | ||||||||||||||||||
Serves | New York metropolitan area | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Newark, New Jersey, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Passenger Airlines: * United Airlines Cargo Airlines: * FedEx Express |
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Elevation AMSL | 18 ft / 5 m | ||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°41′33″N 074°10′07″W / 40.69250°N 74.16861°WCoordinates: 40°41′33″N 074°10′07″W / 40.69250°N 74.16861°W | ||||||||||||||||||
Website | newarkairport.com | ||||||||||||||||||
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Aircraft operations | 431,595 |
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Passengers (ACI) | 40,351,331 |
Newark Liberty International Airport (IATA: EWR, ICAO: KEWR, FAA LID: EWR), originally Newark Metropolitan Airport and later Newark International Airport, is an international airport located about 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Midtown Manhattan (New York City). It straddles the boundary between Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey in the United States. The airport is owned jointly by the cities of Elizabeth and Newark and leased to and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Newark Airport was the first major airport in the United States and through 2013 was the New York–New Jersey metropolitan area's busiest in terms of flights.
The airports in the New York metropolitan area combine to create the largest airport system in the United States, the second-largest in the world in terms of passenger traffic and largest in the world in terms of total flight operations. In 2015 Newark Airport handled 37.5 million passengers, JFK handled 56.8 million and LaGuardia Airport handled 28.4 million. In 2016 Newark served a record 40 million passengers.