{"id":119043,"date":"2016-04-05T11:26:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T09:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=119043"},"modified":"2016-04-05T12:44:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T10:44:29","slug":"the-busiest-airports-in-the-world-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/119043\/the-busiest-airports-in-the-world-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The busiest airports in the world in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

While South Africa’s OR Tambo International Airport is the busiest airport on the African continent, it comes nowhere close to the traffic seen at the world’s biggest flight hubs.<\/p>\n

Airports Council International (ACI) has released its global air traffic results for 2015\/16, based on reports from 1,144 airports across the world.<\/p>\n

The group noted that total air passenger traffic increased by 6.1% in 2015, with a 6.3% upswing in international passengers.<\/p>\n

Topping the list for the busiest airport on earth is the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia in the USA, which saw over 101 million passengers pass through its doors in 2015 – a new record.<\/p>\n

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This is followed by China’s Beijing Capital International Airport with 90 million passengers, and Dubai International Airport, with 78 million passengers.<\/p>\n

Dubai International climbed three spots, taking over from London’s Heathrow Airport, which slipped to 6th position with ‘only’ 75 million passengers. Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport was ranked fourth, and Tokyo’s Haneda Airport was fifth.<\/p>\n

Airports Company South Africa is yet to release the final 2015 tally for South Africa’s airports, but OR Tambo is guaranteed to come out on top, pushing past its 19.16 million passenger count from 2014 (it’s at 18.6 million passengers at February 2016, with over a million more expected for March).<\/p>\n

OR Tambo is the busiest airport in Africa, ranking above Egypt’s Cairo International Airport and Cape Town International Airport.<\/p>\n

These are the busiest airports in the world:<\/p>\n

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#<\/th>\nAirport<\/th>\nTotal passenger traffic<\/th>\nYoY change (%)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nHartsfield\u2013Jackson Atlanta International Airport<\/td>\n101 491 106<\/td>\n5.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nBeijing Capital International Airport<\/td>\n89 938\u00a0628<\/td>\n4.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nDubai International Airport<\/td>\n78 010 265<\/td>\n10.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nChicago O’Hare International Airport<\/td>\n76 949 504<\/td>\n9.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nTokyo Haneda Airport<\/td>\n75 316 718<\/td>\n3.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nLondon Heathrow Airport<\/td>\n74 989 795<\/td>\n2.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nLos Angeles International Airport<\/td>\n74 937 004<\/td>\n6.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nHong Kong International Airport<\/td>\n68 283 407<\/td>\n8.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nParis-Charles de Gaulle Airport<\/td>\n65 766 986<\/td>\n3.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nDallas\/Fort Worth International Airport<\/td>\n64 072 468<\/td>\n0.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nIstanbul Atat\u00fcrk Airport<\/td>\n61 836 781<\/td>\n9.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nFrankfurt Airport<\/td>\n61 032 022<\/td>\n2.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nShanghai Pudong International Airport<\/td>\n60 053 387<\/td>\n16.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nAmsterdam Airport Schiphol<\/td>\n58 284 864<\/td>\n6.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nNew York John F. Kennedy International Airport<\/td>\n56 827 154<\/td>\n6.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\nSingapore Changi Airport<\/td>\n55 449 000<\/td>\n2.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\nGuangzhou Baiyun International Airport<\/td>\n55 201 915<\/td>\n0.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\nSoekarno-Hatta International Airport<\/td>\n54 053 905<\/td>\n-5.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\nDenver International Airport<\/td>\n54 014 502<\/td>\n1.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\nSuvarnabhumi Airport<\/td>\n52 902 110<\/td>\n14.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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