10 Busiest Airports In The World

The following is a list of the world’s busiest airports by passenger traffic. It is measured by the total number of passengers passing through the airport – either as arrivals, departures or transit passengers. This list was calculated according to the 2012 statistics, but the list remains more or less similar throughout the years.

The world’s busiest airport in 2012 and it has been the world’s busiest airport every year since 2000.

Busiest airport in Asia.



3. London Heathrow Airport, London, United Kingdom – 70,038,857 passengers.

Busiest airport in Europe. London Heathrow is in the third place, but if you combine the passenger traffic of all the airports in a city, then London is at the first place as the world’s busiest city airport system



4. Tokyo International Airport, Tokyo, Japan – 67,788,722 passengers

5. O’Hare International Airport, Chicago, United States – 67,091,391 passengers

6. Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, United States – 63,687,544 passengers

7. Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, France – 61,611,934 passengers



8. Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, Dallas, United States – 58,591,842 passengers

9. Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Tangerang, Indonesia – 57,730,732 passengers

10. Dubai International Airport, Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 57,684,550 passengers