- Travel data company OAG released its annual report on the busiest airports.
- The 2024 report measures total airline capacity for domestic and international flights.
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was the busiest global airport last year.
2024 was a huge year for the travel industry, as Gen Z showed their love for all-inclusive resorts, tourists chose to extend their trips, and wellness grew as a hot vacation agenda item.
To cap off the year’s travels, OAG, a travel data company, released its annual report listing the busiest airports of the year.
Spanning four regions, including North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the world’s top 10 busiest airports had a total airline capacity of more than 523 million seats, according to data calculated from domestic and international flights taken from January to December 2024.
Unsurprisingly, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport took the top spot, as it has done every other year since 1998, with the exception of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In fact, the top six busiest airports of 2024 each held their positions from 2023, and of those six, two have kept their rankings from 2019: Hartsfield-Jackson and Tokyo Haneda Airport.
As 2025 gears up to be yet another busy year in the skies, here’s a look back at 2024’s top 10 busiest airports in the world, according to OAG’s report.
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