Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is known as a cargo flight hub, one of the busiest in the world. This week, a new start-up air cargo based in Mexico received approval to begin serving in the U.S. and will be seen by plane-spotters coming and going from Anchorage.
Awesome Cargo joins about 47 air carriers — 27 domestic and 18 international — that come through Anchorage, with about 44 cargo destinations served.
Anchorage ranks third in the world for cargo transit through its airport and in 2023 Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport surpassed Shanghai Pudong Airport. About 3.461 million tons of cargo flies in and out of Anchorage annually.
Photo above shows an Awesome Cargo Airbus 330 landing on its first visit to Anchorage in July.