U.S. airports dominate rankings of world’s busiest final yr

U.S. airports made up eight of the ten busiest hubs around the globe final yr, in keeping with new rankings launched Monday, as a leap in home leisure journey displaced among the world’s bustling worldwide hubs through the pandemic.

Delta Air Lines hub Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport, the world’s busiest earlier than the pandemic, maintained its prime spot on the Airport Council Worldwide’s 2021 preliminary rating, with 75.7 million passengers final yr. American Airlines-dominated Dallas/Fort Value Worldwide Airport ranked second with 62.6 million passengers.

Denver Worldwide Airport vaulted to 3rd place final yr with 58.8 million individuals, up from eighth place in 2020 and sixteenth in 2019. Orlando Worldwide Airport jumped to seventh place with 40.3 million individuals —an enormous enchancment after rating twenty seventh in 2020 and thirty first in 2019.

The rankings present how worldwide journey remained subdued final yr regardless that some nations, together with the U.S., loosened pandemic journey restrictions. Whereas U.S. airports topped the rating, passenger visitors was down throughout the board. ACI estimates airways carried 4.5 billion individuals final yr, down 50% from 2019 however up 25% from 2020.

Home U.S. leisure journey has been a vibrant spot within the pandemic for the nation’s airways, although executives have mentioned they anticipate at the least trans-Atlantic journey demand to be sturdy this spring and summer time. Renewed lockdowns in China have solid doubt on a resurgence in a requirement there, nevertheless.

In 2019, airports in Beijing, Dubai and Tokyo ranked second, third and fifth on the record, respectively. Dubai continued to prime worldwide passenger visitors rankings final yr. The opposite two hubs did not make the reduce.

Listed below are the 2021 rankings (with 2019 rating in parentheses):

1. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport (1)
2. Dallas/Fort Value Worldwide Airport (10)
3. Denver Worldwide Airport (16)
4. Chicago O’Hare Worldwide Airport (6)
5. Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (3)
6. Charlotte Douglas Worldwide Airport, in Charlotte, North Carolina (34)
7. Orlando Worldwide Airport (31)
8. Guangzhou Baiyun Worldwide Airport, in Guangzhou, China (11)
9. Chengdu Shuangliu Worldwide Airport, in Chengdu, China (24)
10. Harry Reid Worldwide Airport, in Las Vegas, Nevada (30)