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Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in the Atlanta metropolitan area, the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic as of 2023. The world's busiest airports by passenger traffic are measured by total passengers provided by the Airports Council International, defined as passengers enplaned plus passengers deplaned plus direct-transit passengers.
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]
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 .
Istanbul Airport is still being expanded, and, by 2025, is set to become the world's largest airport by passenger traffic with the capability to handle 200 million travelers per year, according to ...
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The country’s 5,000 public-use airports manage over two-thirds of global aviation traffic and more than half of all international air travel. ... the U.S. is home to some of the largest airports ...
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 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.