- The City of Phoenix bought the airport for $100,000 in 1935.
- In 2005 over 41 million passengers were processed at Sky Harbor. Terminal 4 is the busiest--32.3 million passengers flew in and out of Terminal 4 in 2005. That terminal, where US Airways and Southwest have their gates, handles about 75% of the passenger traffic.
- In January 2006, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport was ranked the 7th busiest in the country for passengers and the 8th busiest in the nation and the world for operations (takeoffs and landings).
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport had more than 42 million passengers in 2007. It was a new record. New passenger records have been set every year since 2003. Sky Harbor was the eighth-busiest airport in the nation in 2007, according to a Federal Aviation Administration's ranking.
- Each day, there are approximately 1,600 take-offs and landings at Sky Harbor, including commercial, general aviation, military and cargo flights.
- The airport itself takes up 3,000 acres.
- There are 3 terminals with over 100 gates. They are Terminals 2, 3 and 4. Terminal 1 was finished in 1952 and was the only terminal until 1962. By the time the 1980's came around, air traffic in Phoenix had increased dramatically and instead of performing major renovations to to terminal, Terminal 4 was built. Terminal 1 closed in the early 1990s, and the decision was made not to renumber the other terminals because passengers had memorized which airlines were served out of each terminal.
- The average number of passengers at Sky Harbor is more than 100,000 every day. An additional 125,000 people come to the airport each day, including employees, passengers' friends, families and drivers.
- The City of Phoenix Aviation Department employs 750 people and there are over 31,000 employees who work at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. More than 300,000 total jobs are supported by the Phoenix airport system with an annual payroll of 10.3 billion (2005).
- The Phoenix Airport System, including Sky Harbor, Deer Valley and Goodyear Airports, is the largest economic engine in the State of Arizona, providing a total economic impact of $56 million per day and $20.4 billion per year.
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