The world’s busiest airports by aircraft movements are measured by total movements. A movement is a landing or takeoff of an aircraft. The data is from Airports Council International (ACI), which is the trade association of the world’s airports, founded in 1991 with the objective of fostering cooperation among its member airports and other partners in world aviation, including the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Air Transport Association and the Civil Air Navigation Services Organization.
Rank | Airport | Country | Total aircraft movements |
1. | O’Hare International Airport | United States | 903,747 |
2. | Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport | United States | 895,682 |
3. | Los Angeles International Airport | United States | 707,833 |
4. | Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport | United States | 667,213 |
5. | Beijing Capital International Airport | China | 614,022 |
6. | Denver International Airport | United States | 595,190 |
7. | Charlotte Douglas International Airport | United States | 550,013 |
8. | McCarran International Airport | United States | 539,857 |
9. | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | Netherlands | 517,737 |
10. | Frankfurt Airport | Germany | 512,115 |
11. | Shanghai Pudong International Airport | China | 504,794 |
12. | Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport | France | 488,092 |
13. | Indira Gandhi International Airport | India | 480,707 |
14. | London Heathrow Airport | United Kingdom | 477,769 |
15. | Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport | China | 477,364 |
16. | Toronto Pearson International Airport | Canada | 474,289 |
17. | San Francisco International Airport | United States | 470,164 |
18. | George Bush Intercontinental Airport | United States | 466,738 |
19. | Seoul Incheon International Airport | South Korea | 464,646 |
20. | Soekarno–Hatta International Airport | Indonesia | 463,069 |
