Branson Airport
Branson Airport
Branson Airport (IATA: BKG, ICAO: KBBG, FAA LID: BBG) is a public use airport located eight nautical miles (15 km) south-southeast of the central business district of Branson, a city in Taney County, Missouri, United States. Branson Airport, LLC is a private company operating the airport through an operating agreement with The Branson Regional Airport Transportation District. The airport is owned by Taney County. Branson Airport’s three-letter location identifier for IATA, is BKG, and the three-letter location identifier from the FAA is BBG. The airport opened on May 11, 2009. In 2023, only private airlines were operating passenger service into the airfield. As of 2025, no scheduled passenger service is available at the airport. There is one FBO on the field, named the Branson Jet Center. One restaurant is located at the airport. The restaurant is open to the public and is located at the Branson Jet Center.
Location
36.532°N, 93.201°O · 397 m s. n. m. (1.302 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 5 Official publication
Tower
Ground
Clearance delivery
ATIS (automatic information)
UNICOM
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
History
Frontier Airlines launched flights to Branson Airport with daily service to Denver as well as less than daily service to Milwaukee, which was formerly served from Branson through AirTran.
ExpressJet also operated flights under an independent brand known as Branson Air Express to several markets utilizing Embraer ERJ-145 regional jets supporting point-to-point transit.
On February 23, 2011, Branson Airport's largest carrier at the time, AirTran Airways, announced additional flights from Branson to Baltimore, Chicago-Midway and Houston-Hobby. All flights were announced to be year round service.
As of August 2012, Branson Airport was being served with six nonstop departures a day with more than 100 possible connections.
On August 27, 2012, Southwest Airlines announced service to Branson and started service on March 9, 2013. Southwest flew Boeing 737 jetliners nonstop to Chicago-Midway, Dallas-Love, Houston-Hobby and previously flew Saturday only flights to Orlando–International. Southwest Airlines then ended all service into the airport on June 7, 2014.
On February 24, 2014, Frontier Airlines announced their expansion of Branson to Denver service on June 9, 2014. Seasonal service ended in October 2014. Frontier Airlines returned to Branson in the spring of 2018, having served the Branson market for a number of years since the airport opened in 2009.
On April 3, 2014, Buzz Airways, announced new nonstop service to both Chicago-Midway and Houston-Hobby airports that began June 12, 2014, replacing the lost Southwest Airlines service. As of December 2014, this service was operated by Elite Airways with Canadair CRJ regional jet aircraft. Service to Chicago-Midway has since terminated.
On December 23, 2014, Branson AirExpress announced flights operated by Elite Airways and Buzz Airways will continue in 2015 to Chicago-Midway, (MDW) Houston-Hobby (HOU), Austin (AUS) and Denver (DEN). On January 28, 2015, Branson AirExpress announced it would add an additional operator, Orange Air, flying McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jetliners nonstop to Cincinnati (CVG) and New Orleans (MSY) with direct, one stop service to Cancun, Mexico (CUN) via New Orleans from the Branson Airport starting May 6, 2015. On October 5, 2015 the Cincinnati leg of the Orange Air route was terminated, and the Branson-New Orleans-Cancun portion of the route was transferred to Elite Airways.
Elite Airways and Buzz Airways returned as the scheduled air service providers in 2016.
In 2017, the sole provider was Via Air, operating Embraer EMB-145 regional jets to several destinations. In October 2019, the airline declared bankruptcy and ceased all operations.
In February 2018, Frontier Airlines announced it was returning to Branson with seasonal service to Denver (DEN) beginning June 13, 2018. However in 2023, Frontier announced they would not serve the airport for the coming season.
Sun Country Airlines returned to BKG in August 2023 with twice-weekly flights to Minneapolis that ran through November. The airline returned for twice-weekly flights the next year in April through July. The service was supported by a $500,000 Small Community Air Service Development Program grant awarded to the airport by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Sun Country opted to not return to the airport for 2025.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 6 aircraft documented between 2010 and 2010.
Types seen here
Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.
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BibTeX
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