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

My airline flew to 10 out of that list.

And Southwest only flies to 7 of those.
Does anyone see why they are in for some trouble once their fuel hedges run out???

Mine flies to 27. :)







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