World’s Busiest Airports
“Atlanta (+3.3%) continues to be the world’s busiest airport, while Beijing (+4.1%) maintains second place. London Heathrow (+0.9%) remains in third while Tokyo Haneda (+6.7%) moves into fourth position. Chicago O’Hare (-0.1%) takes fifth place. Only three other airports in the top 30 experienced declines in passenger traffic in 2012, which include Madrid (-9.0%), Houston (-0.4%) and Phoenix (-0.3%).”
Preliminary Ranking for World’s Busiest Airports
I would have thought Frankfurt is among the first 10 airports, and it is impressive the increase for the Istanbul airport.
SUMMARY: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FOR 2012 (compared with 2011 figures)
Total Passengers: +4.0%
Total International Passengers: +5.6%
Total Cargo (includes mail): 0.0%
Total International Freight: -0.1%
Total Aircraft Movements: -0.2%
All this data is from Airports Council International that has the site www.aci.aero.
I did not know there was such a domain .aero and sure enough www.delta.aero and www.klm.aero redirect to their respective .com sites.
www.airfrance.aero doesn’t re-direct – there is such a site – and www.aircanada.aero does not exist, they are not afraid someone else will grab this domain :); I suppose they (i.e. the domains) are restricted to the organizations that operate in this field.
The major stories were definitely 1) crazy growth at IST and CGK, and 2) significant slowing down at PEK
I’m surprised about LHR considering the high taxes, airport and transit fees
Vegas is 40+ Million and most passengers are not counted twice like ATL.
How is PEK a significant slowdown when it still managed 4.1% growth? In 2011, it was 6.4% i.e. a drop of only 2.3%. In contrast, some airports experienced sharp slowdown during 2012 e.g. FRA achieved 6.5% growth in 2011, LHR was 5.4% in 2011.