Top 10 Busiest Airports

Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (French: Aéroport de Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle), also known as Roissy Airport, is the largest international airport in France.

It opened in 1974 and is located in Roissy-en-France, 23 kilometers (14 miles) northeast of Paris, France. The airport covers an area of ​​32.38 square kilometers (12.50 square miles). It is named after the French statesman Charles de Gaulle.

In 2019, the airport handled 76,150,007 passengers and 498,175 aircraft. Charles de Gaulle is also the busiest airport in the European Union. The airport handled 2,150,950 metric tons of cargo in 2012.

Shanghai Pudong International Airport is located in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China, about 30 kilometers away from the city center of Shanghai. It is a 4F-class civil airport.

Pudong Airport occupies a 40-square-kilometre (9,884-acre) site adjacent to the coastline in eastern Pudong.

Pudong Airport has two terminals and three cargo areas, with a total area of ​​824,000 square meters and 218 seats, including 135 passenger seats. There are four runways, 3,800 meters, 2, 3,400 meters, and 4,000 meters, respectively.

In 2019, Pudong Airport has an annual passenger throughput of 761.534 million passengers, an annual cargo and mail throughput of 3.365 million tons, and 511,846 flights per year.

Heathrow Airport, formerly known as London Airport (until 1966), is located 14 miles (23 kilometers) west of central London, England.

Heathrow Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world in terms of international passenger traffic. In 2019, it handled a record 80.8 million passengers. The airport facility is owned and operated by Heathrow Airport Holdings.

Heathrow Airport has two parallel east-west runways and four operating terminals, covering an area of ​​12.27 square kilometers (4.74 square miles).

O’Hare International Airport is located in Chicago, Illinois, in the northwestern United States. It is usually called O’Hare Airport, or Chicago O’Hare, or O’Hare for short. The airport is operated by the Chicago Aviation Authority and covers an area of ​​7,627 acres (3,087 hectares).

In 2019, O'Hare International Airport served 84.64 million passengers, making it the sixth busiest airport in the world. In 2019, O’Hare had a total of 919,704 aircraft in operation, an average of 2,520 aircraft per day, the most of any airport in the world, partly due to the large number of regional flights.

Dubai International Airport is located in Dubai, UAE, and is one of the busiest airports in the world. In 2017, DXB handled 88 million passengers and 2.65 million tons of cargo, and registered 409,493 aircraft movements.

Dubai International Airport is located in the Al Garhoud area 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 kilometers; 2.9 miles) east of Dubai, spread over 7,200 acres (2900 hectares) of land.

The total annual capacity of the airport is 90 million passengers. As of January 2016, there are more than 140 airlines operating more than 7,700 weekly flights to more than 270 destinations on all continents. In 2018, more than 63% of passengers who used the airport were transit passengers.

Haneda Airport (Japanese: Haneda Kūkō) is also known as Tokyo International Airport (Japanese: Tōkyō Kokusai Kūkō). It is located in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) south of Tokyo Station.

Haneda Airport received 87 millions passengers in 2019; in terms of passenger throughput, it is the third busiest airport in Asia and the fourth busiest airport in the world, second only to Atlanta International Airport and Beijing Capital International Airport (the busiest in Asia) ) And Dubai International Airport.

Since its expansion in 2018, it has been able to handle 90 million passengers per year. With the combination of Haneda Airport and Narita Airport, Tokyo has the third busiest city airport system in the world, after London and New York.

Los Angeles International Airport is located in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is 18 miles (30 kilometers) southwest of downtown Los Angeles, and to the north is the commercial and residential area of Westchester. The airport covers an area of 3,500 acres (1,400 hectares). LAX has four parallel runways.

In 2019, Los Angeles International Airport handled 88,068,013 passengers, making it the third busiest airport in the world and the second busiest in the United States after Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Beijing Capital International Airport is located in the northeastern suburbs of Beijing, China, 25 kilometers from the center of Beijing. It is one of the earliest large airports in China. The airport began construction in June 1955 and was completed in 1958.

Beijing Capital International Airport has three terminal buildings with an airport area of ​​3657 acres / 14.8 km². It has a total construction area of 1.41 million square meters.

In 2019, the annual passenger throughput of Beijing Capital International Airport was 100 million, ranking first in Asia and second in the world. The cargo and mail throughput was 1,955,300 tons, and the number of takeoffs and landings was 594,000.

The full name of Atlanta International Airport is Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport. It is the main international airport serving Atlanta, Georgia.

The airport is located seven miles (11 kilometers) south of downtown Atlanta, USA. It covers an area of 4700 acres (1902 hectares) and has five parallel runways.

The airport provides international services in North and South America, Central America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Since 1998, Atlanta has been the world's most visited airport.