World Airports

World Airport Information

Welcome to the Airport Information Guide your one stop resource to world airport information, airline news, flight information, the best world car hire rates for business or holiday car hire and much more...

Airports are always expanding, revamping and changing so our aim is to build up information on as many world airports as possible so that you know where to come for all the latest news and information.

See the links on the right side to go directly to specific countries and specific world airports.

World airport and flight statistics

A report is released in July of each year and the report issued in July 2008 showed that world airport traffic increased some 6.9% on the previous year taking it to a massive 4.8 billion passengers.

What is the world's busiest airport?

Answer: Atlanta is the busiest airport in the World serving 89 million passengers a year.

The next busiest airports, when considering international and domestic routes were Chicago O’Hare (76 million), London Heathrow (68 million), Tokyo Haneda (67 million) and Los Angeles (62 million).

The statistic alter slightly if you disregard domestic routes and only take into account international flights with the busiest now being London Heathrow (62 million), Paris Charles de Gaulle (55 million), Amsterdam (48 million), Frankfurt (47 million) and Hong Kong (46 million).

Report and statistics taken from the ACI (Airports Council International)

Live airport and flight news from around the world