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The world's busiest city airport systems by passenger traffic are measured by total number of passengers from all airports within a city or metropolitan area combined. London, with six commercial airports serving its metropolitan area, is the busiest city airport system in the world, [1] although Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the world's busiest individual airport.
The term "hub" is used by the FAA to identify busy commercial service airports. Large hubs are the airports that each account for at least one percent of total U.S. passenger enplanements. Medium hubs are defined as airports that each account for between 0.25 percent and 1 percent of the total passenger enplanements. [1]
Alternatively, London has the world's busiest city airport system by passenger count. As of 2023, the United States has the most airports in the top 50 list, with 16, including five of the top 10. Four other countries have at least two airports in the top 50: China has 10, while India, Spain, and the United Kingdom each have two. [ 4 ]
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, the busiest airport in North America since 1998 and busiest airport in the world since 2022. This is a list of the 50 busiest airports in North America. List is ranked by total passengers per year. Data is sourced from annual reports provided by Airports Council International ...
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 ]
The following is a list of the world's busiest airports by international passenger traffic. For the list of world's busiest airports by total passenger traffic (both domestic and international), see List of busiest airports by passenger traffic. The Dubai International Airport is the world's busiest airport by international passenger traffic
The following are the lists of the world's busiest flight routes based on the number of seats available in the flights scheduled in both directions. Note that these statistics do not consider the number of passengers actually carried (load factor).
The thirty world's busiest airports by aircraft movements are measured by total movements (data provided by Airports Council International). A movement is a landing or takeoff of an aircraft and includes both air transport movements and general aviation.