World top 30 airports 2004 – ranking by total passengers
Total Passengers: Arriving and departing passengers, plus direct transit passengers (counted once)
| Rank | Airport (official name) | Country | IATA code |
Total passengers |
% change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Atlanta William B Hartsfield | USA | ATL | 83,578,906 | +5.7 |
| 2 | Chicago O'Hare | USA | ORD | 75,373,888 | +7.1 |
| 3 | London Heathrow | UK | LHR | 67,343,960 | +6.1 |
| 4 | Tokyo Haneda | Japan | HND | 62,320,968 | -0.9 |
| 5 | Los Angeles International | USA | LAX | 60,710,830 | +10.4 |
| 6 | Dallas/Ft Worth International | USA | DFW | 59,412,217 | +11.6 |
| 7 | Frankfurt Rhein-Main | Germany | FRA | 51,098,271 | +5.7 |
| 8 | Paris Charles de Gaulle | France | CDG | 50,860,561 | +5.5 |
| 9 | Amsterdam Schiphol | Netherlands | AMS | 42,541,180 | +6.5 |
| 10 | Denver International | USA | DEN | 42,393,693 | +13.0 |
| 11 | Las Vegas McCarran International | USA | LAS | 41,436,571 | +14.3 |
| 12 | Phoenix Sky Harbor International | USA | PHX | 39,493,519 | +5.5 |
| 13 | Madrid Barajas | Spain | MAD | 38,525,899 | +7.5 |
| 14 | Bangkok International | Thailand | BKK | 37,960,169 | +25.8 |
| 15 | New York John F Kennedy | USA | JFK | 37,362,010 | +17.7 |
| 16 | Minneapolis-St. Paul International | USA | MSP | 36,748,577 | +10.7 |
| 17 | Hong Kong International | China | HKG | 36,713,000 | +36.1 |
| 18 | Houston George Bush Intercontinental | USA | IAH | 36,490,828 | +6.8 |
| 19 | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County | USA | DTW | 35,199,307 | +7.8 |
| 20 | Beijing Capital International | China | PEK | 34,883,190 | +43.2 |
| 21 | San Francisco International | USA | SFO | 33,497,084 | +14.3 |
| 22 | Newark Liberty International | USA | EWR | 31,847,280 | +8.1 |
| 23 | London Gatwick | UK | LGW | 31,461,523 | +4.8 |
| 24 | Orlando International | USA | MCO | 31,110,852 | +13.9 |
| 25 | Tokyo Narita International | Japan | NRT | 31,106,264 | +17.2 |
| 26 | Singapore Changi | Singapore | SIN | 30,353,565 | +23.1 |
| 27 | Miami International | USA | MIA | 30,156,727 | +1.9 |
| 28 | Seattle-Tacoma International | USA | SEA | 28,703,352 | +7.2 |
| 29 | Toronto Lester B. Pearson International | Canada | YYZ | 28,655,526 | +15.8 |
| 30 | Philadelphia International | USA | PHL | 28,508,510 | +15.6 |
Source: Airports Council International (ACI); April 2005