Columbus Airport (IATA: CSG, ICAO: KCSG, FAA LID: CSG) (formerly Columbus Metropolitan Airport) is four miles northeast of Columbus, in Muscogee County, Georgia, United States. The airport covers 680 acres (275 ha) and has two intersecting runways. Serving Georgia's second largest city, it is Georgia's fourth busiest airport.

FAA records say the airport had 84,387 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2022, an increase from 56,520 enplanements in 2021. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).

The airport is a public-use airport that is owned and operated by the Columbus Airport Commission. The Muscogee County Airport Commission was established under an amendment to the Constitution of Georgia on April 9, 1968. After the merger between the governments of Muscogee County and Columbus at the start of 1971, the Muscogee County Airport Commission became the Columbus Airport Commission. The airport's five commissioners are appointed to five-year terms by the council of the Columbus Consolidated Government, an elected body representing the districts of Columbus. The Columbus Airport Commission is responsible for the airport's promotion and operations, but cannot collect taxes.

Planning began before the onset of World War II to build Muscogee County Airport as a larger alternative to the existing Columbus Municipal Airport, a grass airfield which was located just to the southeast of Columbus' business district. The municipal airport had been operating commercial flights since June 19, 1929, but the new airport would feature longer, paved runways with lighting. Construction continued through the war, and in November 1942 its use was offered by the county to the federal government for military operations. The completed airfield was officially designated open to use by the public on December 10, 1944 by the Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA). A temporary structure housed airport staff at the time of designation, set to be replaced with a $60,000 terminal building.

Eastern Airlines brought the first scheduled airline service to Muscogee County Airport on August 1, 1944, connecting it directly to Atlanta and Montgomery before the airport was certified for use by the CAA. The first scheduled flight arrived in Columbus at 3:08 pm as a stop on a route from New York to Houston in a Ryan Brougham. Following approval by the Civil Aeronautics Board in April 1947, Delta Air Lines initiated services using the Douglas DC-3 to the airport on July 1, 1947 as a stop along a route from Atlanta to Fort Worth. Southern began scheduled services to Atlanta and Jacksonville on June 25, 1949, also using the DC-3. In 1968 Southern was allowed to start nonstop DC-9s Columbus to Dulles International Airport, three a day, all continuing to LaGuardia Airport. Southern's New York/Washington service would grow to five services a day by June 1970. Eastern and Southern discontinued services to Columbus in 1979.

The Columbus Airport would begin to see a increase in regional airline services following the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. The first of these was Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA), which got its start operating five flights from Columbus to Atlanta on June 27, 1979 using a fleet of three de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters. ASA would go on to operate the route as one of the inaugural routes of Delta Connection regional services in 1984. Other short-lived regional services to operate out of Columbus included Northwest Airlink and Eastern Metro Express. A new terminal building was completed in 1991 to replace the original terminal built in the 1940s. Delta's last mainline flights were in the autumn of 1995, terminating by the release of their December timetable.

On January 21, 2010 airport was renamed from Columbus Metropolitan Airport to the more simplified Columbus Airport at the onset of a $3.3 million renovation project that occurred in 2010. The project included aesthetic updates to the terminal interior and the repaving of Runway 6/24. Another renovation project was completed in 2021 at the cost of $13.5 million. The 2021 project increased the capacity of the terminal building for airline operations, and added seating throughout the airport including an indoor aircraft viewing area. The goal of the project was to attract additional airline service to Columbus. This was temporarily effective as American Eagle began daily services to Charlotte and Dallas–Forth Worth after eight years of not serving the airport; however, the services only lasted from August 2021 to April 2023 with American citing a shortage in pilots and the end of payroll support grants distributed during the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason behind their withdrawal. Following American Eagle's exit, Delta Connection remains as the sole commercial carrier at Columbus Airport with two to three daily flights to and from Atlanta.

In April 2024, the Columbus Airport Commission announced that the airport would be closing its longest runway, 6/24, to be entirely rebuilt for the first time since the airport opened in 1944 in March 2025. The construction will prohibit the use of the airport for military and commercial operations for three to four months, including Delta Connection flights. The commission expressed that they are certain the services on the airport's sole remaining airline route would resume following the completion of the reconstruction.

Columbus Airport covers 680 acres (275 ha) at an elevation of 397 feet (121 m). It has two intersecting asphalt runways: 6/24 is 6,997 by 150 feet (2,133 x 46 m) and 13/31 is 3,997 by 150 feet (1,218 x 46 m). Runway 6/24, the primary runway is equipped with high-intensity runway lighting, precision approach path indicators, and a full parallel taxiway with medium-intensity taxiway lighting. Runway 6 has a medium-intensity approach lighting system with runway alignment indicators and Runway 24 has runway end identifier lights. The secondary runway, Runway 13/31 has medium-intensity runway lighting, a full parallel taxiway also with medium-intensity lighting, and runway end identifier lights. Runway 30 is equipped with visual approach slope indicator. Runway 6 is equipped with ILS, NDB, or RNAV approach systems and Runway 24 has VOR/DME or RNAV systems.

The airport has a rotating beacon, illuminated wind cone, automated surface observing system (ASOS), and a control tower. The airport has a public safety department that is responsible for fire and law enforcement services on and around the airport. The fire station is situated next to the terminal building at the east end of the commercial ramp.

Airlines	Destinations
Delta Connection	Atlanta

Destinations map
Atlanta

Airlines	Destinations	Refs
FedEx Feeder	Memphis

Busiest domestic routes from CSG
(February 2023 – January 2024)

Rank	City	Passengers
1	Atlanta, Georgia	50,220
2	Charlotte, North Carolina	3,610
3	Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas	1,230

Columbus Airport is served by Airport Thruway, an arterial road that links it directly to nearby Interstate 185 and Veterans Parkway (US 27 / SR 1). The airport's parking lots are located at ground level and can hold 1,214 vehicles in lots designated for the fixed-base operator, general short-term visitors, and general long-term visitors. The airport is served by several taxi and rental car companies. Route 10 of the METRA Transit System serves a bus stop along Airport Thruway at a nearby Walmart on an hourly basis.

In the year ending November 30, 2022 the airport had 37,662 aircraft operations, average 103 per day: 86% general aviation, 7% air taxi, 3% airline, and 4% military. 132 aircraft were then based at the airport: 106 single-engine, 13 multi-engine, 7 jet, 2 helicopter, 1 glider and 3 ultralight. As of 2022, it is Georgia's fourth busiest airport behind Atlanta, Savannah, and Augusta. FAA records say the airport had 84,387 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2022, an increase from 56,520 enplanements in 2021 and 63,726 enplanements in 2010.

• On July 9, 1981, at 9:56 pm, on a flight from Ozark, Alabama to Augusta, Georgia, a Cessna 411 crashed in a residential area while trying to make an emergency landing at the airport. The pilot, the sole occupant, had only 25 total flying hours and was not rated for instrument flight. There was one fatality.
• On August 17, 1984, at 1:13 pm after stopping to refuel on a flight from Tennessee to Florida, a Mooney M20 crashed shortly after takeoff. There were four fatalities. The aircraft had previously sustained substantial damage in an incident at Porvenir Island, Panama.
• On July 19, 2009, at around 6:15 pm, a Rutan VariEze crashed shortly after takeoff. The pilot was the sole occupant and was killed.

• List of airports in Georgia (U.S. state)

• Columbus Airport, official website
• Aerial image as of February 1999 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective September 5, 2024
• FAA Terminal Procedures for CSG, effective September 5, 2024
• Resources for this airport:
  • AirNav airport information for KCSG
  • ASN accident history for CSG
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for KCSG
  • FAA current CSG delay information