By Elizabeth Rhodes Updated June 25, Save Pin FB More. A travelling woman is looking departure information station in kunming airport. World's Busiest Airports.
Credit: Getty Images. Comfortable deck chairs of airport waiting area In Chengdu. Credit: Stewart F. Aerial view of Chongqing international airport. Denver airport interior. All rights reserved. But Atlanta is by far the largest. It occupies a strategic eastern point in the United States, acting as a major entry point for international traffic. The airport retains a very populous catchment area and is the only airport serving the city and surrounding area.
The slowdown in aviation seen in and into has obviously had a big effect on airport rankings. The passenger numbers from ACI are for , with full-year numbers for not yet available you can see more data through the Port Authority of New York.
US airports should retain high rankings, as there is a high volume of domestic traffic. This should help Chinese airports as well. It is, of course, international travel that has suffered the most. There are indications already of changes in the US, but Atlanta may well still hold the top place. It did for the first quarter of , with just an Further down, it is expected that Denver Airport has lept up to third place behind Atlanta and Dallas Forth Worth , due mainly to its strong focus on domestic rather than international traffic.
Beijing is one to watch too. It is planned to reach a capacity of 75 million by , and million after this. Would you like to share any thoughts or comments on Atlanta Airport and its role as the busiest globally? The rankings, too, weigh all that into how airports work; that is, how quickly they get people where they're going.
No place gets people on planes better than Atlanta. Delta, headquartered in Atlanta, is one of the world's largest airlines, toting around some million passengers a year. Hartsfield-Jackson is the carrier's and the world's biggest hub. More than 1, Delta flights, to cities, leave ATL every day. More than 75 percent of Atlanta's passengers are on Delta flights. That's no doubt the biggest reason that so many people find themselves in the Capital of the New South — or at least in the city's airport — every year.
But Atlanta, the city, has advantages other than Delta that make it a good place to fly into and out of, not to mention a smart spot for airlines to do business. According to Hartsfield-Jackson, more than 80 percent of the U. The weather is generally good — meaning fewer delays and canceled flights — and there is little competition for the airspace around Hartsfield-Jackson. Unlike places like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and many others, in Atlanta, there's not another big airport within miles.
The relative certainty that flights will get in and out with little problem — and the ability to offer more flights because of that certainty — means that Atlanta is an attractive place for low-cost airlines.
Frontier, Southwest and Spirit are big players at the Atlanta airport, too. In all, Hartsfield-Jackson brings in and sends away some 2, flights and averages more than , passengers each day. About 85 percent of the airport's flights, according to Selden, are on time. I go in and out of it every day and there's always people scurrying around," says Tom Nissalke , the airport's assistant general manager of planning.
To get people in and out, and to keep them moving, takes a constant focus on what's working and what's not, and a willingness to change seemingly little things to make the entire enterprise run more smoothly. To keep the complexity of this operation running smoothly, it takes a village. The stakeholders at the airport include the City of Atlanta which owns and operates it , but 35 different airlines including cargo shippers , the Federal Aviation Administration , the Transportation Security Administration TSA , Customs and Border Protection it is an international airport , hundreds of vendors, thousands of workers, and many other entities and individuals have a voice in how things work.
As with all airports — as with all life — things don't go smoothly percent of the time. Back in December of , a fire in an underground area that houses electrical systems crippled the airport for days , canceling flights, leaving travelers stranded and costing millions.
And sometimes, even the best-run operations can be overrun through no fault of their own. On Feb. Some passengers waited in lines at TSA checkpoints for two hours.
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