List of the busiest airports
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The definition of world's busiest airport has been specified by the Airports Council International in Montreal, Canada.[1] The ACI defines and measures the following three types of airport traffic:
- Passenger traffic: total passengers embarked and disembarked, passengers in transit counted once[2]
- Cargo traffic: loaded and unloaded freight and mail, by mass[3]
- Traffic movements: landings and take-offs of aircraft[4]
Contents
Busiest airports
The following airports make claims based on objective volume measures that are defined above (as per ACI):
- Most passengers annually (1998–2019, 2021–present)[5][6]
- Most aircraft movements annually (2015–present)[7]
- Most passengers annually (2020)[8]
- Most international passengers annually (2014–present)[9]
- Most cargo traffic by weight annually (2020–2021)[10]
- Hong Kong International Airport, New Territories, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.
- Most cargo traffic by weight annually (2022-Present)
Busiest city destination
- Airports of London combined, London, United Kingdom
- Most passengers annually in all city airports combined (2010–present)[11]
Historical claims
- Midway International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, United States
- In the late 1940s, Chicago Midway was the busiest airport in the United States by total aircraft operations – i.e., including every training aircraft practicing take-offs and landings.[12] New York LaGuardia had the most airline operations and passengers until the early 1950s, when Chicago Midway became the busiest airport in the United States by any criterion. Before World War II, Chicago Midway was the origin or destination of one in four U.S. airline flights,[13] although a 1939 Official Aviation Guide shows more airline flights scheduled at Newark than at Chicago.[citation needed]
- Memphis International Airport, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
- As the home of FedEx Express, Memphis had the largest cargo operations worldwide from 1993 to 2009. It remains the busiest cargo airport in the United States and the Western Hemisphere.[14]
See also
- Lists of airports
- List of busiest airports by passenger traffic
- List of busiest airports by international passenger traffic
- List of busiest airports by cargo traffic
- List of busiest city airport systems by passenger traffic
- List of the busiest airports in the European Union
- List of the busiest airports in the Nordic countries
- List of the busiest airports in the Baltic states
- List of the busiest airports in Central America
- List of busiest airports in the United Kingdom
- List of the busiest airports in the Republic of Ireland
- List of the busiest airports in Turkey
- List of largest cargo airports in the United States
References
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External links
- Airports Council International website. A representative industry body for the airport industry that provides air travel statistics.
