The 30 Busiest Passenger Airports in the World
Jan 17 2006
The 30 Busiest Passenger Airports in the World
This is a list of the thirty busiest airports for passenger traffic, based on 2004 data from the Airports Council International. Since 1998, Atlanta has been the world's busiest passenger airport. Numbers represent the number of passengers enplaned and deplaned with passengers in transit counted only once.
1. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport - 83,606,583
2. O'Hare International Airport (Chicago) - 75,533,822
3. Heathrow Airport (London) - 67,344,054
4. Haneda Airport (Tokyo) - 62,291,405
5. Los Angeles International Airport - 60,688,609
6. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport - 59,412,217
7. Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport - 51,260,363
8. Frankfurt Airport - 51,098,271
9. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol - 42,541,180
10. Denver International Airport - 42,393,766
11. McCarran International Airport (Las Vegas) - 41,441,531
12. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport - 39,504,898
13. Madrid Barajas Airport - 38,704,731
14. Bangkok International Airport - 37,960,169
15. John F. Kennedy International Airport (New York City) - 37,518,143
16. Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport - 36,713,173
17. Hong Kong International Airport - 36,711,920
18. George Bush Intercontinental Airport (Houston) - 36,506,116
19. Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport - 35,187,517
20. Beijing Capital International Airport - 34,883,190
21. San Francisco International Airport - 32,247,746
22. Newark Liberty International Airport - 31,947,266
23. London Gatwick Airport - 31,461,454
24. Orlando International Airport - 31,143,388
25. Narita International Airport (Tokyo) - 31,057,252
26. Singapore Changi Airport - 30,353,565
27. Miami International Airport - 30,165,197
28. Sea-Tac International Airport (Seattle) - 28,804,554
29. Toronto Pearson International Airport - 28,615,709
30. Philadelphia International Airport - 28,507,420