CVG

Transportation & Travel abbreviation · Airport Code

CVG
Stands forCincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport
CategoriesTransportation & Travel

CVG stands for Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, an airport code abbreviation.

Main airport for Cincinnati, Ohio, located across the Ohio River in Hebron, Kentucky. It is a major air cargo hub, home to Amazon Air's central hub and DHL's main Americas hub.

Example: Flights into CVG land in Kentucky, but you're in downtown Cincinnati in twenty minutes.

Usage notes

ICAO code KCVG. The code comes from Covington, the nearest Kentucky city when the airport opened in 1947. Delta once ran a large passenger hub there before cutting it back in the 2000s. Cargo growth has made CVG one of the busiest cargo airports in North America.

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