What Is the Busiest Airport in the World?

Perhaps you thought it was John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Most people do!

Back in the 1980s, the busiest airport in the entire world was Chicago International Airport, also called O’Hare Field. At O’Hare, planes took off and landed every 42.5 seconds around the clock.

That means 85 take-offs and landings every hour, 2,036 every day, 14,255 every week, and 741,272 every year!

The Busiest Airport in the World today is Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States.

The busiest airport is measured by several factors, including its Passenger traffic, Cargo traffic, and Traffic movements.

Memphis International Airport in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, has the record for the most cargo traffic in 2009.

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4 Comments

  1. shirin
    Posted 2008/09/21 at 7:00 pm | Permalink

    There is big airport in the world.fecility it’s very good.
    this is a amazing tour form this airport.
    thank’s for this fecility.

  2. Anonymous
    Posted 2008/10/01 at 9:29 pm | Permalink

    Actually O’Hare is #2. Atlanta has been number 1 for 6 years now. It’s no longer even close.

  3. Anonymous
    Posted 2008/12/12 at 1:34 pm | Permalink

    The busiest airport in the world is actually Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

  4. Anonymous
    Posted 2009/01/03 at 8:49 am | Permalink

    beijing is bigger

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