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Memphis International Airport (IATA: MEM, ICAO: KMEM, FAA LID: MEM) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) south of
the central business district of Memphis, a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.
Northwest/Delta Airlines operates its third-largest passenger hub in Memphis,
with routes to a number of destinations in North America, as well as a daily nonstop flight to Amsterdam. Memphis
is also home to FedEx's "Super Hub," which processes a large amount of the freight carrier's packages. Because of
FedEx's hub, Memphis has the largest cargo operations of any airport worldwide. Memphis is also home to United Parcel
Service's third-largest sorting facility.
Since 2009, the airport has also been a hub for small regional airline, SeaPort Airlines which provides single engine plane service
to a number of communites in Arkansas through the Essential Air Service program. SeaPort Airlines is based out of the private aviation
terminal, not the main passenger terminal.
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