- IATA
- BOS
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- KBOS
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1923
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 43.2M
- in 2025
History & name
Boston Logan International Airport opened in 1923 and is named after Edward Lawrence Logan (1875-1939), a United States general. It sits 4 km from Boston at 20 feet with six runways up to 3,073 m, and handled 43.2 million passengers in 2025.
Named afterEdward Lawrence Logan — United States general (1875-1939)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Boston Logan International Airport
- Serves
- Boston, United States
- City centre
- 4 km from Boston
- Opened
- 1923
- Passengers
- 43.2 million in 2025
- Runways
- 6 runways, longest 3,073 m
- Elevation
- 20 ft (6 m)
- Website
- massport.com ↗
Where it sits
42.4°N, 71.0°W puts BOS in the northern hemisphere, 4,710 km from the equator and 5,297 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 142nd most northerly, which makes it the 520th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 42.4°S, 109.0°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Perth (PER) in Australia, still 1,312 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 79 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from BOS
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 5,240 km.
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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