✈️ Airports

• London Gatwick Airport: 40.9M passengers/yr
• Suvarnabhumi Airport: 51.7M passengers/yr ✓

Suvarnabhumi Airport: about 26% more

Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi handled about 11 million more passengers than London Gatwick, the world's busiest single-runway airport.

• Frankfurt Airport: 61.6M passengers/yr
• Los Angeles International Airport: 76.6M passengers/yr ✓

Los Angeles International Airport: about 24% more

LAX handled about 15 million more passengers than Frankfurt, Germany's busiest airport.

• Munich Airport: 41.6M passengers/yr ✓
• Kansai International Airport: 30.6M passengers/yr

Munich Airport: about 36% more

Munich handled about 11 million more passengers than Kansai International, Osaka's airport on an artificial island.

• Amsterdam Schiphol Airport: 66.8M passengers/yr
• O'Hare International Airport: 80.1M passengers/yr ✓

O'Hare International Airport: about 20% more

Chicago O'Hare handled about 13 million more passengers than Amsterdam Schiphol, which caps its number of flights.

• Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: 105M passengers/yr ✓
• Singapore Changi Airport: 58.9M passengers/yr

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: about 78% more

Atlanta handled nearly twice as many passengers as Singapore Changi, largely because so many US domestic flights connect there.

• Roma Fiumicino Airport: 49.2M passengers/yr ✓
• Narita International Airport: 39.8M passengers/yr

Roma Fiumicino Airport: about 24% more

Rome Fiumicino handled around 9 million more passengers than Narita, which shares Tokyo's traffic with Haneda.

• Tokyo International Airport: 85.9M passengers/yr ✓
• Frankfurt Airport: 61.6M passengers/yr

Tokyo International Airport: about 40% more

Tokyo's Haneda handled about 24 million more passengers than Frankfurt, mostly on domestic Japanese flights.

• Indira Gandhi International Airport: 77.8M passengers/yr ✓
• Madrid-Barajas Airport: 66.2M passengers/yr

Indira Gandhi International Airport: about 18% more

India's rapid aviation boom has pushed Delhi's airport among the world's busiest, rivaling major European hubs.

• Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport: 67.4M passengers/yr
• Dubai International Airport: 87M passengers/yr ✓

Dubai International Airport: about 29% more

Dubai International has been the world's busiest airport for international passenger traffic for over a decade.

• Amsterdam Schiphol Airport: 66.8M passengers/yr
• Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: 108M passengers/yr ✓

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: about 62% more

Atlanta's airport moves more passengers each year than the entire population of Germany.