ALB to BWI: Distance and Flight Time

How far is it from Albany to Baltimore?

The great-circle distance between Albany International Airport (ALB) and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) is 464 km (289 mi, 251 nautical miles). That is the straight-line distance; a real flight is a little longer because of air-traffic routing.

How long is the flight from ALB to BWI?

A nonstop flight typically takes about 1h 5m. This is an estimate from the distance; actual block times depend on the aircraft, winds and the exact routing. BWI is roughly southwest of ALB.

How is the ALB to BWI route written in code?

The pair is written ALB-BWI in IATA codes and KALB-KBWI in ICAO codes, the form used on a flight plan. Albany International Airport is ALB (KALB), Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is BWI (KBWI).

Both ICAO codes start with K, the prefix ICAO assigns to the contiguous United States, so this is a route inside one ICAO region. How ICAO prefixes are laid out.

BWI sits 139 ft (42 m) lower than ALB, which is a real difference in air density on takeoff.

Airlines flying ALB to BWI

1 airline appear on this route in the open route dataset, 1 of them still listed as active. Each row gives the IATA code, the ICAO code and the radio callsign, which is what an air traffic controller hears:

A further 1 carrier sell this pair as a codeshare without operating it: FL.

Route and carrier data comes from the OpenFlights open dataset, regenerated here on 3 July 2026. It is a historical snapshot of scheduled connections, not a live schedule, and it includes codeshare listings, so some carriers shown may no longer operate the route or exist. How we build this · Data and sources.

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