World top 30 airports 2001 – ranking by total passengers
Total Passengers: Arriving and departing passengers, plus direct transit passengers (counted once)
| Rank | Airport (official name) | Country | IATA code |
Total passengers |
% change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Atlanta William B Hartsfield | USA | ATL | 75,858,500 | -5.4 |
| 2 | Chicago O'Hare | USA | ORD | 67,448,064 | -6.5 |
| 3 | Los Angeles International | USA | LAX | 61,606,204 | -8.5 |
| 4 | London Heathrow | UK | LHR | 60,743,084 | -6.0 |
| 5 | Tokyo Haneda | Japan | HND | 58,692,688 | +4.1 |
| 6 | Dallas/Ft Worth International | USA | DFW | 55,150,693 | -9.2 |
| 7 | Frankfurt Rhein-Main | Germany | FRA | 48,559,980 | -1.6 |
| 8 | Paris Charles de Gaulle | France | CDG | 47,996,529 | -0.5 |
| 9 | Amsterdam Schiphol | Netherlands | AMS | 39,531,123 | -0.2 |
| 10 | Denver International | USA | DEN | 36,092,806 | -6.9 |
| 11 | Phoenix Sky Harbor International | USA | PHX | 35,439,031 | -1.7 |
| 12 | Las Vegas McCarran International | USA | LAS | 35,180,960 | -4.6 |
| 13 | Houston George Bush Intercontinental | USA | IAH | 34,803,580 | -1.3 |
| 14 | San Francisco International | USA | SFO | 34,632,474 | -15.6 |
| 15 | Minneapolis-St. Paul International | USA | MSP | 34,308,389 | -6.7 |
| 16 | Madrid Barajas | Spain | MAD | 34,047,931 | +3.5 |
| 17 | Hong Kong International | China | HKG | 32,546,029 | -0.6 |
| 18 | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County | USA | DTW | 32,294,121 | -9.1 |
| 19 | Miami International | USA | MIA | 31,668,450 | -5.8 |
| 20 | London Gatwick | UK | LGW | 31,182,364 | -2.8 |
| 21 | Bangkok International | Thailand | BKK | 30,623,366 | +3.4 |
| 22 | Newark International | USA | EWR | 30,558,000 | -10.6 |
| 23 | New York John F Kennedy | USA | JFK | 29,349,000 | -10.7 |
| 24 | Orlando International | USA | MCO | 28,166,612 | -8.4 |
| 25 | Singapore Changi | Singapore | SIN | 28,253,248 | -1.8 |
| 26 | Toronto Lester B. Pearson International | Canada | YYZ | 28,042,692 | -3.1 |
| 27 | Seattle-Tacoma International | USA | SEA | 27,036,073 | -4.8 |
| 28 | St Louis Lambert International | USA | STL | 26,695,019 | -12.7 |
| 29 | Rome Fiumicino | Italy | FCO | 25,565,727 | -2.7 |
| 30 | Tokyo Narita International | Japan | NRT | 25,379,370 | -7.3 |
Source: Airports Council International (ACI); August 2002