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Outbound air freight in Anchorage International Airport (ANC)
Series air_cargo_tons.anc.monthly
History since 2014
Recent values
| Date | Outbound air freight |
|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 | 208,461 tons |
| 2026-03-01 | 249,048 tons |
| 2026-02-01 | 197,922 tons |
| 2026-01-01 | 223,322 tons |
| 2025-12-01 | 260,314 tons |
| 2025-11-01 | 278,329 tons |
| 2025-10-01 | 262,724 tons |
| 2025-09-01 | 241,474 tons |
| 2025-08-01 | 244,849 tons |
| 2025-07-01 | 243,913 tons |
| 2025-06-01 | 234,180 tons |
| 2025-05-01 | 213,213 tons |
| 2025-04-01 | 249,970 tons |
| 2025-03-01 | 266,280 tons |
| 2025-02-01 | 176,535 tons |
| 2025-01-01 | 235,223 tons |
| 2024-12-01 | 265,974 tons |
| 2024-11-01 | 278,519 tons |
| 2024-10-01 | 268,849 tons |
| 2024-09-01 | 252,658 tons |
| 2024-08-01 | 247,997 tons |
| 2024-07-01 | 239,655 tons |
| 2024-06-01 | 241,669 tons |
| 2024-05-01 | 246,557 tons |
Related series
- Enplaned passengersDemand and activity at the same airport: passengers and freight are what moved, operations are how many times aircraft did. At Anchorage the cargo line tracks trans-Pacific trade more than Alaska's economy.
- Departures performed
- Airport tower operations
Outbound air freight elsewhere
More about Anchorage International Airport (ANC)
About this data
Monthly enplaned passengers, outbound air freight, and departures for
Anchorage and Fairbanks from BTS T-100 Segment data (all carriers, all
service classes). ANC is one of the world's top-five cargo airports —
CY2025: 2.71M enplanements and 2.91M short tons of outbound freight —
and this is the demand-side pair to the FAA OPSNET activity counts.
Known issues & gotchas
- **The old plan pointed at data.transportation.gov — that domain has no
aviation data** (3 non-aviation assets, verified). data.bts.gov is the
home.
- Freight and mail are POUNDS — converted to short tons (÷2000) at
parse; publishing raw pounds is the classic 2000× error.
- All Socrata numeric fields arrive as JSON strings;
reporting_month
is a floating timestamp — parse the date part, never timezone-shift.
- The mirror refreshes irregularly (observed ~6.5 weeks stale) on
top of T-100's ~3-month production lag — freshness expectations are
deliberately loose (grace 120); a 4-5 month-old max month is normal.
- Service classes F/G/L/P are all in the roll-up — never "clean" by
filtering classes, that breaks the cross-check. ~72% of ANC freight is
scheduled all-cargo, ~28% charter.
- FAI cargo is charter-driven and genuinely spiky (20× range observed:
0.4M–11.2M lb/month) — bounds are wide on purpose.
- Socrata mirror history starts 2014-01. A 1990–2013 deep backfill
exists at TranStats via a session-cookied DL_SelectFields.aspx POST
(table FMG) — one-time manual job, queued with the steward.
- No app token needed at ~2 requests/month;
$limit=50000a