Dubai climbs up list of world’s busiest airports
Passenger numbers have jumped 10.7% at Dubai Airport, pushing it up the list of the world’s busiest airports.
The airport, which was the sixth busiest passenger airport in 2014, jumped into third position in 2015 thanks to the rise in traffic to 78 million.
But according to the Airports Council International’s 2015 World Airport Traffic Report, the world’s busiest airport – for the 18th consecutive year – is Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
More than 101 million people passed through the airport last year, 5.5% more than in 2014.
The airport has held the title of ‘world’s busiest’ for so long that earlier this year it announced that it would prefer to be known as the ‘most travelled to’ airport, to rid itself of any negative connotations.
Beijing Airport stayed in second place with 89.9 million passengers, 4.4% up on 2014.
Meanwhile, Chicago O’Hare moved from seventh to fourth position in 2015, thanks to 9.8% growth in passenger numbers to more than 76 million.
In fifth and sixth place were Tokyo with 75 million and London Heathrow with 74 million.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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