Gallup Municipal Airport Guide

Gallup Municipal Airport is the public airport for Gallup, New Mexico, in McKinley County. It sits about 5 km southwest of the city centre at an elevation of 6,472 ft. The IATA code is GUP and the ICAO code is KGUP.

Airline service began in the late 1940s with Monarch Airlines, which merged into Frontier Airlines in 1950. Frontier served Gallup until 1981, and a series of commuter carriers followed. Scheduled flights stopped in 1999, resumed briefly in the 2000s and then lapsed for fourteen years. Advanced Air restarted service on August 1, 2022, with a daily flight to Phoenix funded by a $3.5 million state Rural Air Service Enhancement grant. Las Vegas flights and a second daily Phoenix flight followed in November 2024. Advanced Air flies nine-seat King Air 350 turboprops, and FedEx Feeder carries cargo to Albuquerque.

The field covers 359 acres with one asphalt runway, 6/24, which measures 7,316 ft by 100 ft. The airport recorded about 6,200 aircraft operations in the 12 months to July 2021 and has 18 based aircraft. Gallup Flying Service is the fixed-base operator, and Gallup Med Flight runs an air ambulance base on the field.