Top 10 Busy Airports in the World 2020
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10th. Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
Total passengers per year: 72,229,723
Charles de Gaulle Airport also known as Roissy Airport, is the largest international airport in France and second-busiest airport in Europe. Opened in 1974, it is located in Roissy-en-France, 23 km northeast of Paris. It is named after Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), leader of the Free French Forces during World War II, founder of the French Fifth Republic and President of France from 1959 to 1969.
9th. Shanghai Pudong International Airport
Total passengers: 74,006,331
Shanghai Pudong International Airport is one of the two international airports in Shanghai and a major aviation hub in China. Pudong Airport mainly serves international flights, while the city's other major airport Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport mainly serves domestic and regional flights in East Asia. Located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of the city center, Pudong Airport occupies a 40-square-kilometre site adjacent to the coastline in eastern Pudong. The airport is operated by Shanghai Airport Authority
8th. Hong Kong International Airport
Total passengers: 74,517,402
Hong Kong International Airport is Hong Kong's main airport, built on reclaimed land on the island of Chek Lap Kok. The airport is also referred to as Chek Lap Kok International Airport or Chek Lap Kok Airport, to distinguish it from its predecessor, the former Kai Tak Airport.
Having been in commercial operation since 1998, Chek Lap Kok Airport is an important regional trans-shipment centre, passenger hub and gateway for destinations in China (with 45 destinations) and the rest of Asia.
7th. London Heathrow
Total passengers: 80,126,320
Heathrow Airport, also known as London Heathrow, is a major international airport in London, United Kingdom. Heathrow is the second busiest airport in the world by international passenger traffic, as well as the busiest airport in Europe by passenger traffic, and the seventh busiest airport in the world by total passenger traffic. It is one of six international airports serving Greater London.
The airport facility is owned and operated by Heathrow Airport Holdings.
6th. O’Hare International Airport, Chicago
Total passengers: 83,339,186
O'Hare International Airport typically referred to as O'Hare Airport, Chicago O'Hare, or simply O'Hare, is an international airport located on the Northwest Side of Chicago, Illinois.
Designed to be the successor to Chicago's "busiest square mile in the world", Midway Airport, O'Hare began as an airfield serving a Douglas manufacturing plant for C-54 military transports during World War II.
5th. Tokyo Haneda Airport
Total passengers: 87,131,973
okyo International Airport commonly known as Haneda Airport, Tokyo Haneda Airport, and Haneda International Airport, is one of the two primary airports that serve the Greater Tokyo Area, and is the primary base of Japan's two major domestic airlines
Haneda handled over 85 million passengers in 2018; by passenger throughput, it was the third-busiest airport in Asia and the fifth-busiest in the world.
4th. Los Angeles International Airport
Total passengers: 87,534,384
Los Angeles International Airport, commonly referred to as LAX (with each of its letters pronounced individually), is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles, California, United States, and its surrounding metropolitan area.
3rd. Dubai International Airport
Total passengers: 89,189,387
Dubai International Airport is the primary international airport serving Dubai, United Arab Emirates and is the world's busiest airport by international passenger traffic. It is the third busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic, the sixth-busiest cargo airport in the world, the busiest airport for Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 movements, and the airport with the highest average number of passengers per flight.
2nd. Beijing Capital International Airport
Total passengers: 100,983,290
Beijing Capital International Airport is the main international airport serving Beijing. The airport is owned and operated by the Beijing Capital International Airport Company Limited, a state-controlled company.
Beijing Capital has rapidly ascended in rankings of the world's busiest airports in the past decade. It had become the busiest airport in Asia in terms of passenger traffic and total traffic movements by 2009.
1st. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Total passengers: 107,394,029
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, also known as Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield, or Hartsfield–Jackson, is the primary international airport serving Atlanta, Georgia. The airport is located seven miles (9km) south of the Downtown Atlanta district. It is named after former Atlanta mayors William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson. The airport has 192 gates: 152 domestic and 40 international.
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