Top 20 busiest airports in the world: they serve 11.4% of global traffic

Airports Council International (ACI) published this week a ranking of the world's busiest airports. The list was compiled based on the latest traffic data of the largest air hubs, taking into account passenger, cargo and aircraft movements. Let's tell you more about which airports made it into this ranking.

The study, which Airports Council International (ACI) prepared for its World Airport Traffic Dataset 2022 report, analyzed traffic data from over 2,600 airports in more than 180 countries and territories. It should be noted that the traffic of Russian airports was not considered in the rating.

Atlanta International Airport ranked first in terms of passenger traffic, serving 93.7 million passengers in 2022, which is 23.8% more than a year earlier.
In 2nd place was Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport with 73.4 million passengers last year, 17.5 more than in 2021.

In third place in the rankings is Denver International Airport, with passenger traffic of 69.3 million passengers, up 17.8 percent from a year earlier.

Fourth place - at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, it served 68.3 million passengers in 2022, 26.5% more than in 2021.

It should be noted that all four listed airports occupied similar places in the ranking, prepared on the basis of the results of 2021.

The top five ranking is closed by Dubai International Airport, with a passenger flow of 66.1 million, which is 127% more than the figures of the year before last. Thus, Dubai airport moved from 27th place in the ranking of the busiest air hubs in the world, which was compiled according to the results of 2021.

The top 20 busiest airports by passenger numbers also included:

Los Angeles Airport

Istanbul International Airport or Istanbul New Airport

London Heathrow Airport

New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport

Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City

Las Vegas International Airport

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

Miami International Airport

Barajas International Airport in Madrid

Tokyo International Airport

Orlando International Airport

Frankfurt International Airport

Charlotte Airport in Douglas

 Mexico City International Airport

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