world top 30 airports in 2018

World Top 30 Airports

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World’s Busiest Airports

Over the past 10 years our website’s database has grown from around 10,000 airports around the world to now featuring over 40,000 airports, strips, fields or heliports.

This is partly because of the popularity of air travel and the lower budget flights availability which has caused an expansion in the number of airports.

These are the Top 30 busiest airports in the World for 2018:

Rank	Airport	Location	Country	Code (IATA/ICAO)	Half-year passengers	Rank Change	% Change
1.	Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport	Atlanta, Georgia	United States	ATL/KATL	52,640,000
2.	Beijing Capital International Airport	Chaoyang-Shunyi, Beijing	China	PEK/ZBAA	49,380,000
3.	Dubai International Airport	Garhoud, Dubai	United Arab Emirates	DXB/OMDB	43,740,000
4.	Los Angeles International Airport	Los Angeles, California	United States	LAX/KLAX	42,680,000	1
5.	Tokyo Haneda Airport	Ōta, Tokyo	Japan	HND/RJTT	41,060,000	1
6.	O'Hare International Airport	Chicago, Illinois	United States	ORD/KORD	39,450,000
7.	London Heathrow Airport	Hillingdon, London	United Kingdom	LHR/EGLL	38,070,000
8.	Hong Kong International Airport	Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR, China	HKG/VHHH	36,910,000
9.	Shanghai Pudong International Airport	Pudong, Shanghai	China	PVG/ZSPD	36,690,000
10.	Indira Gandhi International Airport	Delhi	India	DEL/VIDP	35,040,000	6

 

Airport Information Index:

1. The busiest airport are ranked depending on the number of passengers flying to or from each airport.

2. Passenger may only be catching connecting flights from an airport to another destination.

3. Passenger Number data is related to the Airport Council International estimated full year figures for 2015.

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