Busiest Airports in the World

Air travel is one of the easiest and fastest ways of traveling to different countries situated at opposite ends of the world. The distance and time is cut considerably short because of air travel and I am sure a lot of people would bless the Wright Brothers for their noble invention! However, since there are millions of people traveling these large distances every single day, there are a few airports across the globe known to be the busiest airports in the world. Air travel is also used for transportation of goods, mail, cargo, etc. which is required by civilians, private companies and the armed forces of various countries. Therefore, counting all these factors, which are majorly dependent on air travel, we have come up with a list of busiest airports in the world. Read on and find out which are these popular airports all over the world.

Busiest Airports in the World List

There are busy airports everywhere in the world, since people have to travel for various reasons, a few mentioned in the above paragraph. There are many factors depending on which the Airports Council International in Geneva, Switzerland has specified a few entries into the busiest airports in the world. These factors are - passenger traffic: number of total passengers in transit, cargo traffic: amount of loaded and unloaded mail and traffic movements: the measure of total landings and take-offs of the aircraft. This survey is done on a yearly basis or sometimes, once in three years to make sure which are the world's busiest airports by passengers and flights. To give you a short list of these, we have put up the names of 30 airports in the next paragraph. Take a look.

Top 30 Busiest Airports in the World

Most of the busiest airports in the world are well-known because they have the maximum amount of air traffic from almost all countries. These airports are very major resources of some of the leading countries in the world. Therefore, they attract as well as supply an excellent air service for passengers as well as military. Find out which are these leading air bases mentioned in the following list.

• Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta International Airport - Atlanta, United States (this is found to be one of the busiest airports in the world by flights)
• Beijing Capital International Airport - Chaoyang, China
• O'Hare International Airport - Chicago, United States
• London Heathrow Airport - Hillingdon, United Kingdom
• Tokyo International Airport - Ōta, Japan
• Los Angeles International Airport - Los Angeles, United States
• Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport - Roissy-en-France, France
• Dallas Fort Worth International Airport - Dallas/Fort Worth, United States
• Denver International Airport - Denver, United States
• Frankfurt Airport - Flughafen (Frankfurt am Main), Germany
• Hong Kong International Airport - Chek Lap Kok, China
• Madrid-Barajas Airport - Madrid, Spain
• John F. Kennedy International Airport - Queens, United States (surely one of the busiest airports in the United States)
• United Arab Emirates Dubai International Airport - Garhoud, Dubai
• Amsterdam Airport - Schiphol Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands
• Soekarno - Hatta International Airport - Cengkareng, Indonesia
• Suvarnabhumi Airport - Racha Thewa, Thailand
• People's Republic of China Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport - Huadu, China
• Changi Airport - Changi, Singapore
• George Bush Intercontinental Airport - Houston, United States
• People's Republic of China Shanghai Pudong International Airport - Pudong, China
• Mc Carran International Airport - Las Vegas, United States of America (apart from being in the top 30, this is also one of the three busiest airports in the world)
• San Francisco International Airport - San Mateo County, United States
• Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport - Phoenix, United States
• Miami International Airport - Miami-Dade County, United States
• Charlotte Douglas International Airport - Charlotte, United States
• Leonardo da Vinci Airport - Fiumicino, Italy
• Orlando International Airport - Orlando, United States
• Kingsford Smith Airport - Sydney, Australia
• Narita International Airport - Narita, Japan

With these entries in the busiest airports in the world, I am sure you came across and few you must have visited too. The above mentioned list was a review from the survey done in early 2010.