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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 30 busiest airports in the World for 2018:
| Rank | Airport | Location | Country | Code (IATA/ICAO) | Half-year passengers | Rank change | % change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport | Atlanta, Georgia | United States | ATL/KATL | 54,388,000 |  |  3.3% |
| 2. |  Beijing Capital International Airport | Chaoyang-Shunyi, Beijing | China | PEK/ZBAA | 49,242,000 | |  0.6% |
| 3. | Los Angeles International Airport | Los Angeles, California | United States | LAX/KLAX | 43,049,000 | 1 | 0.9% |
| 4. |  Tokyo Haneda Airport | Ōta, Tokyo | Japan | HND/RJTT | 41,435,000 | 1 | 1.1% |
| 5. |  Dubai International Airport | Garhoud, Dubai | United Arab Emirates | DXB/OMDB | 41,278,000 | 2 | 5.6% |
| 6. | O'Hare International Airport | Chicago, Illinois | United States | ORD/KORD | 39,512,000 | | 2.8% |
| 7. |  London Heathrow Airport | Hillingdon, London | United Kingdom | LHR/EGLL | 38,750,000 | | 1.8% |
| 8. | Shanghai Pudong International Airport | Pudong, Shanghai | China | PVG/ZSPD | 38,220,000 | 1 | 4.2% |
| 9. |  Hong Kong International Airport | Chek Lap Kok, Islands, New Territories | Hong Kong SAR, China | HKG/VHHH | 37,800,000 | 1 | 2.5% |
| 10. |  Charles de Gaulle Airport | Roissy-en-France, Île-de-France | France | CDG/LFPG | 36,339,000 | | 7.2% |
| 11. | Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport | Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas | United States | DFW/KDFW | 36,122,000 | 4 | 6.3% |
| 12. | Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport | Baiyun-Huadu, Guangzhou, Guangdong | China | CAN/ZGGG | 35,646,000 | 1 | 4.1% |
| 13. |  Seoul Incheon International Airport | Incheon | Republic of Korea | ICN/RKSI | 35,547,000 | 3 | 5.7% |
| 14. |  Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | Haarlemmermeer, North Holland | The Netherlands | AMS/EHAM | 34,537,000 | 3 | 1.4% |
| 15. |  Frankfurt Airport | Frankfurt, Hesse | Germany | FRA/EDDF | 33,644,000 | 1 | 3.0% |
| 16. |  Singapore Changi Airport | Changi, East Region | Singapore | SIN/WSSS | 33,190,000 | 3 | 3.4% |
| 17. |  Suvarnabhumi Airport | Bang Phli, Samut Prakan | Thailand | BKK/VTBS | 32,760,000 | 4 | 2.5% |
| 18. | Denver International Airport | Denver, Colorado | United States | DEN/KDEN | 32,705,000 | 2 | 6.1% |
| 19. |  Indira Gandhi International Airport | Delhi | India | DEL/VIDP | 32,558,857 | 7 | 7.4% |
| 20. |  Soekarno–Hatta International Airport | Tangerang, Banten | Indonesia | CGK/WIII | 1 | | |
| 21. | John F. Kennedy International Airport | Queens, New York, New York | United States | JFK/KJFK | 30,481,000 | 2 | 4.4% |
| 22. |  Kuala Lumpur International Airport | Sepang, Selangor | Malaysia | KUL/WMKK | 30,355,000 | 2 | 2.0% |
| 23. |  Madrid Barajas Airport | Barajas, Madrid | Spain | MAD/LEMD | 29,284,000 | 1 | 6.6% |
| 24. | San Francisco International Airport | San Mateo County, California | United States | SFO/KSFO | 27,704,000 | 2 | 0.8% |
| 25. | Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport | Shuangliu-Wuhou, Chengdu, Sichuan | China | CTU/ZUUU | 27,340,000 | 2 | 4.7% |
| 26. | Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport | Bao'an, Shenzhen, Guangdong | China | SZX/ZGSZ | 25,837,000 | 6 | 6.2% |
| 27. | Orlando International Airport | Orlando, Florida | United States | MCO/KMCO | 25,800,000 | 7 | 6.7% |
| 28. | McCarran International Airport | Las Vegas, Nevada | United States | LAS/KLAS | 25,274,000 | 2 | 3.1% |
| 29. | Barcelona–El Prat Airport | Barcelona | Spain | BCN/LEBL | 24,821,000 | 2 | 5.5% |
| 30. |  Toronto Pearson International Airport | Mississauga, Ontario | Canada | YYZ/CYYZ | 24,463,000 | 1 | 3.1% |
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 2015.
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