Which Airports Are the World’s Busiest? This Infographic Will Tell You

If you’ve gotten frustrated with the crowds at Atlanta’s airport lately, know that you’re not alone. The Georgia travel hub is the busiest in the world, dealing with more take offs and landings per hour than even airports in larger world cities like London or Beijing, according to this infographic from LastMinute.com.

In general, the U.S. boasts incredibly high air traffic, with 4.25 billion flights crossing the country each year. The world’s four busiest airports in terms of both per-hour take offs and landings and passengers are all in the United States, and there are six total American airports in the top 19. The infographic takes into account both domestic and international travel.

You’ll notice that it shows data for both the number of flights in and out of each airport and the number of passengers per hour. When there are dramatically more passengers than flights, that means that there are a lot of big planes coming and going, as you might expect in a place like Dubai that handles a lot of international flights. (The city serves as a refueling spot on many intercontinental long-haul flights, and the airport represents almost 27 percent of the metropolitan GDP.)

Apologies to anyone who has to fly through any of these airports during the holidays.

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