Richmond International Airport

Richmond International Airport (KRIC) sits 6 miles southeast of downtown Richmond, Virginia. The field handles modest commercial service (American, Delta, United, JetBlue, Southwest, Allegiant, Spirit, Frontier) and a meaningful flow of business aviation, particularly the Richmond corporate community (Capital One HQ, Altria, Genworth, Markel, Performance Food Group), the Virginia state-government corridor, and the central Virginia leisure / wine-country flow.

The two runways at KRIC (16/34 9,003 ft, 7/25 6,605 ft) handle every current business jet without restriction. Two FBOs (Million Air and Atlantic) handle business movements. Field elevation is 168 feet, no density-altitude concerns. The dominant operational considerations are Virginia weather (occasional winter ice storms, summer thunderstorms, hurricane risk in the I-95 corridor), and the structural Virginia government calendar. The Virginia Tech / UVA football game-day flows produce occasional ramp pressure (UVA-Tech games drive both ways). Ground time to downtown Richmond is 15 minutes; the West End corporate corridor is 25–35; Williamsburg via I-64 is 45; Charlottesville (UVA) is 80 minutes.

Richmond International Airport is a joint civil-military airport in Sandston, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community. The airport is about 7 miles (11 km) southeast of downtown Richmond, the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Richmond International Airport is the busiest airport in central Virginia and the third-busiest in the state behind Washington Reagan and Washington Dulles. RIC covers 2,500 acres of land.