These are the most — and least — expensive airports to fly from in the US
- Finding cheap flights isn't just about the time of year or how far in advance you book your trip.
- Airfare costs also depend on what airport you're flying out of, a recent SmartAsset analysis found.
Flight prices have been all over the place this past year.
Turns out, you can use all the cheap travel hacks in the book but can't escape the fact that flights from your local airport might be hundreds of dollars more expensive than an airport in the next state over.
From fuel prices and maintenance costs to airport size and the level of competition in the area, there are a dozen reasons why a flight from Minneapolis to New York might be more expensive than a flight from Chicago to New York, even though the two cities are only a 6-hour drive apart.
To save you the guesswork, SmartAsset, a financial advisory website, analyzed Q1 2022 and Q1 2023 data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics to rank the average cost of a domestic flight departing from 72 major airports across the US.
These are the most expensive and least expensive US airports for domestic flights, according to the study:
Top 10 most expensive airports in the US
Ted Stevens Anchorage International (Anchorage, Alaska)
Washington Dulles International (Washington D.C.)
Minneapolis-St Paul International (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Charlotte Douglas International (Charlotte, North Carolina)
Salt Lake City International (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Detroit Metro Wayne County (Detroit, Michigan)
Will Rogers World (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
Dallas/Fort Worth International (Dallas, Texas)
Gerald R. Ford International (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Norfolk International (Norfolk, Virginia)
Top 10 cheapest airports in the US
Harry Reid International (Las Vegas, Nevada)
Kahului Airport (Maui, Hawaii)
Orlando International (Orlando, Florida)
Metro Oakland International (Oakland, California)
Hollywood Burbank (Burbank, California)
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International (San Jose, California)
Luis Munoz Marin International (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Chicago Midway International (Chicago, Illinois)
LaGuardia (New York, New York)