World top 30 airports 2006 – 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 | 84,846,639 | -1.2 |
| 2 | Chicago O'Hare | USA | ORD | 77,028,134 | +0.7 |
| 3 | London Heathrow | UK | LHR | 67,530,197 | -0.6 |
| 4 | Tokyo Haneda | Japan | HND | 65,810,672 | +4.0 |
| 5 | Los Angeles International | USA | LAX | 61,041,066 | -0.7 |
| 6 | Dallas/Ft Worth International | USA | DFW | 60,226,138 | +1.8 |
| 7 | Paris Charles de Gaulle | France | CDG | 56,849,567 | +5.7 |
| 8 | Frankfurt Rhein-Main | Germany | FRA | 52,810,683 | +1.1 |
| 9 | Beijing Capital International | China | PEK | 48,654,770 | +18.7 |
| 10 | Denver International | USA | DEN | 47,325,016 | +9.1 |
| 11 | Las Vegas McCarran International | USA | LAS | 46,193,329 | +5.0 |
| 12 | Amsterdam Schiphol | Netherlands | AMS | 46,065,719 | +4.4 |
| 13 | Madrid Barajas | Spain | MAD | 45,501,168 | +8.0 |
| 14 | Hong Kong International | China | HKG | 43,857,908 | +8.9 |
| 15 | New York John F Kennedy | USA | JFK | 43,762,282 | +4.5 |
| 16 | Bangkok International | Thailand | BKK | 42,799,532 | +9.8 |
| 17 | Houston George Bush Intercontinental | USA | IAH | 42,550,432 | +7.1 |
| 18 | Phoenix Sky Harbor International | USA | PHX | 41,436,737 | +0.5 |
| 19 | Newark Liberty International | USA | EWR | 36,724,167 | +7.9 |
| 20 | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County | USA | DTW | 35,972,673 | -1.1 |
| 21 | Minneapolis-St. Paul International | USA | MSP | 35,612,133 | -5.3 |
| 22 | Singapore Changi | Singapore | SIN | 35,033,083 | +8.0 |
| 23 | Tokyo Narita International | Japan | NRT | 34,975,225 | +11.3 |
| 24 | Orlando International | USA | MCO | 34,640,451 | +1.5 |
| 25 | London Gatwick | UK | LGW | 34,172,492 | +4.2 |
| 26 | San Francisco International | USA | SFO | 33,574,807 | +0.5 |
| 27 | Miami International | USA | MIA | 32,533,974 | +4.9 |
| 28 | Philadelphia International | USA | PHL | 31,768,272 | +0.9 |
| 29 | Toronto Lester B. Pearson International | Canada | YYZ | 30,972,577 | +3.5 |
| 30 | Munich Franz Josef Strauss | Germany | MUC | 30,757,978 | +7.5 |
Source: Airports Council International (ACI); July 2007