John Glenn Columbus International Airport

CMH Airport (John Glenn Columbus International) - Live Flight Status

By classification, John Glenn Columbus International Airport counts as a large airport; by what our receivers actually picked up over the past 30 days, CMH Airport is one of the quieter fields we track. The airport, coded CMH by IATA and KCMH by ICAO, serves Columbus in the United States, and both readings tell you something real: the large-airport category describes what kind of field Columbus is, while our quiet measurement describes how much of its traffic our own measurement picked up in one specific month. The live radar on this page shows the aircraft around Columbus at this moment, and the arrivals and departures pages linked above it cover the status of the current flights; the text below sticks to what we measured ourselves.

Our 30-day measurement at Columbus

Every figure in this text comes from our own reception measurement. Over a 30-day period, our receivers logged an average of 2.3 aircraft observations per day near CMH, which places Columbus on the quiet end of the airports we measure. The busiest window in that same period fell between 00:00 and 02:00, and that window is recorded in UTC, so it does not line up one-to-one with local time in Columbus. Keep that offset in mind before reading it as a middle-of-the-night peak. A low count in our data also says nothing about how busy the terminal feels; it says how many aircraft our measurement registered near the airport, which we list at coordinates 39.998, -82.8919, and nothing more.

Airlines in our Columbus data

Three carriers appear in our 30-day measurement at CMH. Southwest Airlines leads with 8 recorded measurements, United Airlines follows with 7, and American Airlines completes the list with 5. If you are tracking a specific flight, go straight to the carrier: open the Southwest Airlines flight status page for Southwest traffic, the United Airlines flight status page for United, or the American Airlines flight status page if you are flying American. One caveat that the numbers themselves suggest: with counts this small, a single day can reshuffle the order, so read the ranking as a snapshot of one 30-day window rather than a fixed hierarchy at Columbus.

Airports near CMH

Rickenbacker International Airport is the nearest airport in our data, 21 km from CMH. Farther out, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base lies at 100 km and James M. Cox Dayton International Airport at 114 km, both to the west of Columbus in the direction of Dayton. Of the three, Rickenbacker is the only one close enough to count as a practical alternative for a trip that starts or ends in Columbus itself. If Columbus is only one of the airports you are looking at, our airport overview is the starting point for the rest of the country.