Hartsfield Jackson
The main hall inside Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
  • Atlanta's airport is the busiest hub in the world for 2022 with 93 million passengers.
  • London Heathrow had a 218% increase in passenger traffic compared to 2021, ranking 8th. 
  • In third place, Denver is one of the only airports to have caught up with pre-pandemic levels. 

Air travel is roaring again, and nowhere was it busier in 2022 than at the top 10 busiest airports in the world. 

In 2022, global traffic neared seven billion passengers, a 53.5% increase compared to 2021, according to preliminary data published by the Airports Council International, a trade association that includes 1925 airports all over the world.