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Top 10 Largest & Busiest Airports in the World

World’s 4th largest airport is proposed to be constructed in Jewer (India).

Jewar International Airport is a proposed airport to be constructed in Jewar (56 kilometres (35 mi) from Noida) in Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh. The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) will be the implementing agency on behalf of the Uttar Pradesh State Government. The airport is to be developed on a Public Private Partnership model (PPP). The proposed plan is to build a two runway airport by 2022-23 and then, at a future date, to extend it to a 7200-acre 6-runway airport.

1- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)

Hartsfield-Jasckson International Airport

The airport is located 7 miles (11km) south of the Downtown Atlanta district. The airport has 192 gates: 152 domestic and 40 international.  ATL covers 4,700 acres (1,902 ha) of land and has five parallel runways. Hartsfield–Jackson held its ranking as the world’s busiest airport in 2012, both in passengers and number of flights, by accommodating 100 million passengers (more than 260,000 passengers daily) and 950,119 flights.

Total passengers: 107,394,029 

2- Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK)

Beijing Capital International Airport (IATA: PEK, ICAO: ZBAA) is the main international airport serving Beijing. It is serving world’s 2nd busiest airport. It is located 32 km (20 mi) northeast of Beijing’s city centre. Beijing Capital has rapidly ascended in rankings of the world’s busiest airports in the past decade. it became busiest airport in the Asia in past in passenger and total traffic movement in 2009.

Total passengers: 100,983,290

3- Dubai International Airport (DXB)

Dubai International Airport (IATA: DXB, ICAO: OMDB) is the primary international airport serving Dubai, United Arab Emirates and is the world’s 3rd busiest airport by international passenger traffic. Having welcomed 900,000 passengers in 2018, the steady growth of DXB has seen a 1 per cent increase on 2017’s figures.

Total passengers: 89,189,387

4- Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)

Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX), commonly referred to as LAX, is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles, California, United States, and its surrounding metropolitan area. LAX is located in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles in California, 18 miles (30 km) southwest of Downtown Los Angeles. In 2018, LAX handled 87,534,384 passengers, making it the world’s fourth busiest and the United States’ 2nd busiest airport Including ATL.

Total passengers: 87,534,384

5- Tokyo Haneda Airport (HND)

Tokyo International Airport, commonly known as Haneda AirportTokyo Haneda Airport, and Haneda International Airport (IATA: HND, ICAO: RJTT), is one of the two primary airports that serve the Greater Tokyo Area, and is the primary base of Japan’s two major domestic airlines, Japan Airlines (Terminal 1) and All Nippon Airways (Terminal 2), as well as Air Do, Skymark Airlines, Solaseed Air, and StarFlyer. It is located in Ōta, Tokyo, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) south of Tokyo Station.

Total passengers: 87,131,973

6- O’Hare International Airport, Chicago (ORD)

O’Hare International Airport (IATA: ORD, ICAO: KORD, FAALID: ORD), is an international airport located on the Northwest Side of Chicago, Illinois, 14 miles (23 km) northwest of the Loop business district; operated by the Chicago Department of Aviation and covering some 7,627 acres (3,087 ha), O’Hare has non-stop flights to 228 destinations in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

Total passengers: 83,339,186

7- London Heathrow (LHR)

Heathrow Airport, also known as London Heathrow (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL), is a major international airport in London, United Kingdom. Heathrow is the second busiest airport in the world (after Dubai International Airport) by international passenger traffic, as well as the busiest airport in Europe by passenger traffic, and the seventh busiest airport in the world by total passenger traffic.

Total passengers: 80,126,320

9- Hong Kong International Airport (HKA)

Hong Kong International Airport (IATA: HKG, ICAO: VHHH) is the commercial airport serving Hong Kong, built on reclaimed land on the island of Chek Lap Kok. The airport is also known as Chek Lap Kok Airport to distinguish it from its predecessor, the former Kai Tak Airport.

Total passengers: 74,517,402

9- Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) 

Shanghai Pudong International Airport (IATA: PVG, ICAO: ZSPD) is one of two international airports of Shanghai and a major aviation hub of China. Pudong Airport mainly serves international flights, while the city’s other major airport Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport mainly serves domestic and regional flights. Located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of the city center, Pudong Airport occupies a 40-square-kilometre (10,000-acre) site adjacent to the coastline in eastern Pudong.

Total passengers: 74,006,331

10- Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG)

Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG), also known as Roissy Airport, is the largest international airport in France and second-busiest airport in Europe. Opened in 1974, it is located in Roissy-en-France, 23 km (14 mi) northeast of Paris. In 2018, the airport handled 72,229,723 passengers and 480,945 aircraft movements, thus making it the world’s tenth-busiest airport, and Europe’s second-busiest airport (after London Heathrow) in terms of passenger numbers.

Total passengers: 72,229,723

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