{"id":97223,"date":"2015-09-01T13:15:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T11:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=97223"},"modified":"2015-09-01T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T11:15:58","slug":"the-busiest-airports-in-the-world-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/97223\/the-busiest-airports-in-the-world-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"The busiest airports in the world revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global airport passenger numbers increased by 5.7% in 2014 to over 6.7 billion, registering increases in all six regions across the world.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to the Airports Council International&#8217;s (ACI) latest edition of the World Airport Traffic Report, taking data coverage for over 2,200 airports in more than 160 countries worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that Atlanta airport in the US remains the world\u2019s busiest airport on the globe with 96 million passengers in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic at the airport was up 1.9% over 2013, while the second-ranked Beijing airport experienced more subdued growth of 2.9% in 2014 as compared to the double-digit growth it had achieved in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>Airport traffic in emerging markets and developing economies experienced growth of 8%, whereas airports in advanced economies grew by 4% in 2014, with emerging markets reaching a 43% share of global passenger traffic, ACI said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Top 10 busiest airports<\/h3>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"5%\">#<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"25%\">City<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"15%\">Code<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"35%\">Passengers<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"20%\">%change<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Atlanta, USA<\/td>\n<td>ATL<\/td>\n<td>96.2 million<\/td>\n<td>1.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Beijing, China<\/td>\n<td>PEK<\/td>\n<td>86.1 million<\/td>\n<td>2.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>London, UK<\/td>\n<td>LHR<\/td>\n<td>73.4 million<\/td>\n<td>1.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Tokyo, Japan<\/td>\n<td>HND<\/td>\n<td>72.8 million<\/td>\n<td>5.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Los Angeles, USA<\/td>\n<td>LAX<\/td>\n<td>70.7 million<\/td>\n<td>6.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Dubai, UAE<\/td>\n<td>DXB<\/td>\n<td>70.5 million<\/td>\n<td>6.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Chicago, USA<\/td>\n<td>ORD<\/td>\n<td>70 million<\/td>\n<td>4.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Paris, France<\/td>\n<td>CDG<\/td>\n<td>63.8 million<\/td>\n<td>2.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Dallas\/Fort Worth, USA<\/td>\n<td>DFW<\/td>\n<td>63.6 million<\/td>\n<td>5.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>Hong Kong,China<\/td>\n<td>HKG<\/td>\n<td>63.1 million<\/td>\n<td>5.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>During 2014, the highest number of passengers went through airports in the Asia-Pacific region:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Asia-Pacific (2.3 billion, up 7.1% over 2013)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Europe (1.8 billion, up 5.5% over 2013)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>North America (1.6 billion, up 3.2% over 2013)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Latin America-Caribbean (531 million, up 6.4% over 2013)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Middle East (308 million, up 10.8% over 2013)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Africa (180 million, up 2.7% over 2013)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With over 1.4 billion passengers, BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa)\u00a0-which represent 21% of global passenger traffic\u00a0-achieved strong growth of 9% in passenger traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Although Dubai is the sixth-busiest airport in the world in overall passenger traffic, it became the world\u2019s busiest in terms of international passenger traffic, ahead of London-Heathrow, in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Istanbul (+10.5%) remains one of the fastest-growing airports among the world\u2019s top 30 airports for passenger traffic, moving from 18th to rank 13th.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s top 30 airport cities handle more than one-third of global passenger traffic, the report noted.<\/p>\n<p>London remains the world\u2019s largest airport system with almost 147 million passengers handled at six airports in and around the metropolitan area.<\/p>\n<p>New York maintains the second position with 116 million passengers at three airports. Tokyo is the third city market with 109 million passengers, the report said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on airports<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/90700\/best-and-worst-airlines-in-south-africa\/\">Best and worst airlines in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/85952\/the-biggest-airlines-in-africa\/\">The biggest airlines in Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/international\/54991\/best-airports-in-the-world\/\">Best airports in the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global airport passenger numbers increased by 5.7% in 2014 to over 6.7 billion, registering increases in all six regions across the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10403,26],"class_list":["post-97223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-airports-council-international","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97223"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97241,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97223\/revisions\/97241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}