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World’s Busiest Airports
Over the past 10 years our website’s database has grown from around 10,000 airports around the world to now featuring over 40,000 airports, strips, fields or heliports.
This is partly because of the popularity of air travel and the lower budget flights availability which has caused an expansion in the number of airports.
These are the Top 50 busiest airports in the World for 2019:
| Rank | Airport | Location | Country | Code (IATA/ICAO) | Total passengers | Rank change | % change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport | Atlanta, Georgia | United States | ATL/KATL | 104,653,451 |  |  11.7% |
| 2. |  Dubai International Airport | Garhoud, Dubai, Dubai | United Arab Emirates | DXB/OMDB | 86,994,365 | 3 | 31.7% |
| 3. | Dallas Fort Worth International Airport | Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas | United States | DFW/KDFW | 81,755,538 |  1 | 11.4% |
| 4. |  Heathrow Airport | Hillingdon, London | United Kingdom | LHR/EGLL | 79,183,364 | 4 | 28.5% |
| 5. |  Tokyo Haneda Airport | Ōta, Tokyo | Japan | HND/RJTT | 78,719,302 | 11 | 55.1% |
| 6. | Denver International Airport | Denver, Colorado | United States | DEN/KDEN | 77,837,917 | 3 | 12.3% |
| 7. |  Istanbul Airport | Arnavutköy, Istanbul | Turkey | IST/LTFM | 76,027,321 | | 18.3% |
| 8. | Los Angeles International Airport | Los Angeles, California | United States | LAX/KLAX | 75,050,875 | 2 | 13.8% |
| 9. | O'Hare International Airport | Chicago, Illinois | United States | ORD/KORD | 73,894,226 | 5 | 8.1% |
| 10. |  Indira Gandhi International Airport | Palam, Delhi | India | DEL/VIDP | 72,214,841 | 1 | 21.4% |
| 11. |  Charles de Gaulle Airport | Roissy-en-France, Île-de-France | France | CDG/LFPG | 67,421,316 | 1 | 17.3% |
| 12. |  Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport | Baiyun-Huadu, Guangzhou, Guangdong | China | CAN/ZGGG | 63,169,169 | ? | 142.0% |
| 13. | John F. Kennedy International Airport | Queens, New York, New York | United States | JFK/KJFK | 62,464,331 | 2 | 13.0% |
| 14. |  Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | Haarlemmermeer, North Holland | Netherlands | AMS/EHAM | 61,889,586 | 1 | 18.0% |
| 15. |  Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport | Madrid | Spain | MAD/LEMD | 60,181,604 | | 18.9% |
| 16. |  Frankfurt Airport | Frankfurt, Hesse | Germany | FRA/EDDF | 59,355,389 | 2 | 21.3% |
| 17. |  Singapore Changi Airport | Changi, East Region | Singapore | SIN/WSSS | 58,946,000 | 19 | 83.1% |
| 18. | Orlando International Airport | Orlando, Florida | United States | MCO/KMCO | 57,735,726 | 1 | 15.1% |
| 19. | Harry Reid International Airport | Las Vegas, Nevada | United States | LAS/KLAS | 57,666,456 | 7 | 9.4% |
| 20. |  Seoul Incheon International Airport | Incheon | South Korea | ICN/RKSI | 56,235,412 | ? | 213.8% |
| 21. | Shanghai Pudong International Airport | Pudong, Shanghai | China | PVG/ZSPD | 54,476,397 | ? | 284.2% |
| 22. | Charlotte Douglas International Airport | Charlotte, North Carolina | United States | CLT/KCLT | 53,445,770 | 3 | 11.9% |
| 23. | Beijing Capital International Airport | Chaoyang-Shunyi, Beijing | China | PEK/ZBAA | 52,879,156 | ? | 316.2% |
| 24. | Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport | Bao'an, Shenzhen, Guangdong | China | SZX/ZGSZ | 52,734,934 | ? | 144.6% |
| 25. | Miami International Airport | Miami-Dade County, Florida | United States | MIA/KMIA | 52,340,934 | 11 | 3.3% |
| 26. |  Suvarnabhumi Airport | Racha Thewa, Bangkok metro | Thailand | BKK/VTBS | 51,699,104 | 24 | 79.8% |
| 27. | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport | Santacruz-Sahar, Mumbai, Maharashtra | India | BOM/VABB | 51,589,040 | 1 | 34.6% |
| 28. | Seattle–Tacoma International Airport | SeaTac, Washington | United States | SEA/KSEA | 50,877,260 | 7 | 10.7% |
| 29. | San Francisco International Airport | San Mateo County, California | United States | SFO/KSFO | 50,196,094 | 5 | 18.7% |
| 30. | Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport | Barcelona | Spain | BCN/LEBL | 49,883,928 | 5 | 19.9% |
Airport Information Index:
1. The busiest airport are ranked depending on the number of passengers flying to or from each airport.
2. Passenger may only be catching connecting flights from an airport to another destination.
3. Passenger Number data is related to the Airport Council International estimated full year figures for 2019.
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