Trends · data through September 2026

Airports in the United States

Iceflower tracks 888 stores from 819 airport chains in the United States. Sacramento International Airport grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Airport and Denver International Airport.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
819
Tracked stores
888
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked airport chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Sacramento International Airport and Airport sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Sacramento International Airport ▲1 +9.3%
2 Airport ▲1 +9.0%
3 Denver International Airport - +3.0%
4 Emirates Airline ▲2 +2.8%
5 Portland International Airport - -4.1%
6 Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport - -7.4%
7 Philippine Airlines - -23.2%
8 TSA PreCheck ▼4 -77.3%
  • Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
  • Dulles International Airport
  • Denver International Airport
  • Ethiopian Airlines
  • Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport
  • Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
  • Tampa International Airport
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

888 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 27 of the 888 stores (3%); 771 of the 819 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (1)
  • Dulles International Airport (1)
  • Denver International Airport (3)
  • Ethiopian Airlines (1)
  • Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport (2)
  • Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (1)
  • Tampa International Airport (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 TSA PreCheck 15
  • 2 Sacramento International Airport 3
  • 3 Denver International Airport 3
  • 4 Los Angeles International Airport 3
  • 5 Airport 3
  • 6 Philippine Airlines 3
  • 7 Portland International Airport 3
  • 8 Emirates Airline 3
  • 9 Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport 3
  • 10 Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport 2
  • 11 George Bush Intercontinental Airport 2
  • 12 Boise Airport 2
  • 13 McGhee Tyson Airport 2
  • 14 Raleigh-Durham International Airport 2
  • 15 Denver Airport 2
  • 16 Newark Liberty International Airport 2
  • 17 Jackson Jet Center 2
  • 18 Westchester County Airport 2
  • 19 Cutter Aviation 2
  • 20 Million Air 2
  • 21 John Wayne Airport 2
  • 22 Terminal A 2
  • 23 Palm Beach International Airport 2
  • 24 Ontario International Airport 2
  • 25 Jacksonville Aviation Authority 2
  • 26 Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport 2
  • 27 Terminal C 2
  • 28 Colorado Springs Airport 2
  • 29 Norfolk International Airport 2
  • 30 Boston Logan International Airport 2
  • 31 Kansas City International Airport 2
  • 32 Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport 2
  • 33 LOT Polish Airlines 2
  • 34 Kona International Airport 1
  • 35 Muncie Aviation Company 1
  • 36 Airport Blvd 1
  • 37 Tampa Airport Car 1
  • 38 Evanston Water Plant Heliport 1
  • 39 Midland Airpark 1
  • 40 El Paso International Airport 1
  • 41 Jackson Hole Airport 1
  • 42 BDL Terminal A 1
  • 43 Tri-Cities Airport 1
  • 44 Perris Valley Skydiving 1
  • 45 Bessemer Municipal Airport 1
  • 46 Louisville Aviation 1
  • 47 Albuquerque International Sunport 1
  • 48 Lihue Airport 1
  • 49 Marco Island Executive Airport 1
  • 50 EWR Newark Airport 1

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