World's 20 Busiest Airports in 2017

[dimondpark]

By the Airports Council International

World's 20 Busiest Airports by Passengers, 2017

1. Atlanta (ATL): 103,902,992 passengers (down 0.3%). Rank in 2016: 1st.

2. Beijing (PEK): 95,786,442 passengers (up 1.5%). Rank in 2016: 2nd.

3. Dubai International (DXB): 88,242,099 (up 5.5%). Rank in 2016: 3rd.

4. Tokyo Haneda (HND): 85,408,975 (up 6.5%). Rank in 2016: 5th.

5. Los Angeles (LAX): 84,557,968 (up 4.5%). Rank in 2016: 4th.

6. Chicago O'Hare (ORD): 79,828,183 (up 2.4%). Rank in 2016: 6th.

7. London Heathrow (LHR): 78,014,598 (up 3%). Rank in 2016: 7th.

8. Hong Kong (HKG): 72,663,955 (up 3.4%). Rank in 2016: 8th.

9. Shanghai Pudong (PVG): 70,001,237 (up 6.1%). Rank in 2016: 9th.

10. Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG): 70,001,237 (up 6.1%). Rank in 2016: 10th.

11. Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS): 68,515,425 (up 7.7%). Rank in 2016: 12th.

12. Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW): 67,092,194 (up 2.3%). Rank in 2016: 11th.

13. Guangzhou, China (CAN): 65,887,473 (up 10.3%). Rank in 2016: 15th.

14. Frankfurt (FRA): 64,500,386 (up 6.1%). Rank in 2016: 13th.

15. Istanbul Atatürk (IST): 63,872,283 (up 6%). Rank in 2016: 14th.

16. New Delhi (DEL): 63,451,503 (up 14.1%). Rank in 2016: 22nd.

17. Jakarta/Soekarno-Hatta (CGK): 63,015,620 (up 8.3%). Rank in 2016: 19th.

18. Singapore Changi (SIN): 62,220,000 (up 6%). Rank in 2016: 17th.

19. Seoul/Incheon (ICN): 62,157,834 (up 7.5%). Rank in 2016: 20th.

20. Denver (DEN): 61,379,396.(up 5.3%) Rank in 2016: 18th.


The world's top 10 airports for 2018, according to Skytrax through April 2018

By "aircraft movements" (preliminary)

1. Atlanta (ATL): 879,560 movements (down 2.1%). Rank in 2016: 1st

2. Chicago (ORD): 867,049 movements (down 0.1%). Rank in 2016: 2nd

3. Los Angeles (LAX): 700,362 movements (up 0.5%). Rank in 2016: 3rd

4. Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW): 654,344 movements (down 2.7%). Rank in 2016: 4th

5. Beijing Capital (PEK): 597,259 movements (down 1.5%). Rank in 2016: 5th

6. Denver (DEN): 574,966 movements (up 1.7%). Rank in 2016: 6th

7. Charlotte (CLT): 553,817 movements (up 1.5%). Rank in 2016: 7th

8. Las Vegas (LAS): 542,994 movements (up 0.3%). Rank in 2016: 8th

9. Amsterdam (AMS): 514,625 movements (up 3.6%). Rank in 2016: 9th

10. Shanghai (PVG): 496,774 movements (up 3.5%). Rank in 2016: 10th

11. Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG): 482,676 movements (up 0.7%). Rank in 2016: 11th

12. London Heathrow (LHR): 475,915 movements (up 0.2%). Rank in 2016: 12th

13. Frankfurt (FRA): 475,375 movements (up 2.7%). Rank in 2016: 15th

14. Toronto Pearson (YYZ): 465,555 movements (up 2%). Rank in 2016: 16th

15. Guangzhou, China (CAN): 465,295 movements (up 6.9%). Rank in 2016: 23rd

16. Istanbul Atatürk (IST): 460,821 movements (down 1%). Rank in 2016: 14th

17. San Francisco (SFO): 460,343 movements (up 2.2%). Rank in 2016: 18th

18. Tokyo Haneda (HND): 453,126 movements (up 1%). Rank in 2016: 20th

19. Houston Bush Intercontinental (IAH):450,383 movements (down 4.3%). Rank in 2016: 13th

20. Mexico City (MEX): 449,664 movements (up 0.3%). Rank in 2016: 19th

[Xelebes]

What is it that you wanted to discuss?

[dimondpark]

Originally Posted by Xelebes

What is it that you wanted to discuss?

Im sharing data from which much can be inferred, year-over-year growth, airports surpassing others, reasons for increase or decrease, flight announcements, etc, lots of things--just dont tell me this is misleading. Refer any complaints to the Airports Council International.

https://aci.aero/About-ACI/Contact-Information/

[dimondpark]

For example, I wonder if Beijing Capital might be maxing out as far as growth seeing how Shanghai and Guangzhou are growing way faster now?

Also New Delhi leapfrogged past 6 airports from 22nd to 16th.

[plinko]

I like the airport list and check it every year. Always interesting to see which are growing, slowing, and compare aircraft movements to passengers.

I've been lucky enough to have traveled to 12/20 in terms of passengers and 16/20 in terms of movements from these lists. The two most surprising omissions for me given my travel history are AMS and FRA. Been to a bunch of the other airports in that part of the continent, but not those two.

[BG918]

Interesting that no New York area airport or Tokyo Narita is on the list

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by BG918

Interesting that no New York area airport or Tokyo Narita is on the list

Both New York and Tokyo have multiple big international airports. If this was a measure of air traffic, this list would look a bit different.

[The Chemist]

Originally Posted by dimondpark

For example, I wonder if Beijing Capital might be maxing out as far as growth seeing how Shanghai and Guangzhou are growing way faster now?

Also New Delhi leapfrogged past 6 airports from 22nd to 16th.

Considering that Beijing's new airport at Daxing will be opening next year, it's pretty safe to assume that PEK is maxed out. PVG's numbers are smaller than they otherwise might be as SHA (Hongqiao) has 40 million passengers per year on its own. But with PVG's new satellite terminal opening up next year, the numbers for PVG will probably continue to grow rapidly.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Both New York and Tokyo have multiple big international airports. If this was a measure of air traffic, this list would look a bit different.

Yeah, but metro NY is undoubtedly greater than say, three metro Denvers in pretty much any category. Not that Denver isn't a cool city of course.

[muppet]

^Yep, London is the biggest airhub by far - its 6 international airports handled 170 million last year.

London Heathrow 78,014,598 (world's second busiest international airport)
London Gatwick 45,600,000 (world's busiest single runway)
London Stansted 25,902,618
London Luton 15,800,000
London City 4,500,000
London Southend 1,700,000

[emathias]

Aggregated data per metro would be interesting. 170 million for London is incredible!

Chicago with ORD and MDW would be about 101 million. I can't imagine Gary or Rockford add even a million to that, even if you wanted to include them. I looked it up - about 100,000 for Rockford and about 5,000 for Gary, lol.

[Stratosphere]

I think LAX will probably overtake Tokyo Haneda and Dubai after the Midfield Satellite Concourse is completed. That building will provide 12 additional wide-body gates.

Greater Los Angeles handled 108 million passengers in 2017.

Los Angeles International Airport: 84,557,968
John Wayne Airport: 10,423,578
Hollywood Burbank Airport: 4,739,466
Ontario International Airport: 4,552,225
Long Beach Airport: 3,783,805

San Bernardino International Airport also has domestic and international commercial service but I can't find its passenger figure for 2017.

[Car(e)-Free LA]

I extrapolated the 2010-18 growth numbers out to 2030, and here are the new top 20:

1. Dubai-DXB (164,000,000) (rank: up 2)
2. Beijing-PEK (136,000,000) (rank: same)
3. Los Angeles-LAX (132,000,000) (rank: up 2)
4. Atlanta-ATL (131,000,000) (rank: down 3)
5. Tokyo-HND (125,000,000) (rank: down 1)
6. Shanghai-PVG (125,000,000) (rank: up 3)
7. Delhi-DEL (128,000,000) (rank: up 9)
8. Istanbul-IST (123,000,000) (rank: up 7)
9. Seoul-ICN (115,000,000) (rank: up 10)
10. Hong Kong-HKG (114,000,000) (rank: down 2)
11. Amsterdam-AMS (112,000,000) (rank: same)
12. Guangzhou-CAN (112,000,000) (rank: up 1)
13. Chicago-ORD (104,000,000) (rank: down 7)
14. Kuala Lumpur-KUL (104,000,000) (rank: up 9)
15. London-LHR (101,000,000) (rank: down 8)
16. Singapore-SIN (100,000,000) (rank: up 2)
17. Mexico City-MEX (99,000,000) (rank: up 19)
18. Jakarta-CGK (98,000,000) (rank: down 1)
19. Bangkok-BKK (94,000,000) (rank: up 2)
20. Chengdu-CTU (94,000,000) (rank: up 6)