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World top 50 airports 1999 – 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	78,092,940	+6.3
2	Chicago O'Hare	USA	ORD	72,609,191	+0.1
3	Los Angeles International	USA	LAX	64,279,571	+5.0
4	London Heathrow	UK	LHR	62,263,365	+2.6
5	Dallas/Ft Worth International	USA	DFW	60,000,127	-0.5
6	Tokyo Haneda	Japan	HND	54,338,212	+6.0
7	Frankfurt Rhein-Main	Germany	FRA	45,838,864	+7.3
8	Paris Charles de Gaulle	France	CDG	43,597,194	+12.9
9	San Francisco International	USA	SFO	40,387,538	+0.7
10	Denver International	USA	DEN	38,034,017	+3.3
11	Amsterdam Schiphol	Netherlands	AMS	36,772,015	+6.8
12	Minneapolis-St. Paul International	USA	MSP	34,721,879	+14.4
13	Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County	USA	DTW	34,038,381	+7.9
14	Miami International	USA	MIA	33,899,332	-0.1
15	Las Vegas McCarran International	USA	LAS	33,669,185	+11.4
16	Newark International	USA	EWR	33,622,686	+3.2
17	Phoenix Sky Harbor International	USA	PHX	33,554,407	+5.8
18	Seoul Gimpo International	Korea	SEL	33,371,074	+13.4
19	Houston George Bush Intercontinental	USA	IAH	33,051,248	+6.5
20	New York John F Kennedy	USA	JFK	31,700,604	+2.1
21	London Gatwick	UK	LGW	30,559,227	+4.8
22	St Louis Lambert International	USA	STL	30,188,973	+5.3
23	Hong Kong International	China	HKG	29,728,145	+6.5
24	Orlando International	USA	MCO	29,203,755	+5.1
25	Madrid Barajas	Spain	MAD	27,994,193	+9.9
26	Toronto Lester B. Pearson International	Canada	YYZ	27,779,675	+3.9
27	Seattle-Tacoma International	USA	SEA	27,705,488	+7.1
28	Bangkok International	Thailand	BKK	27,289,299	+6.5
29	Boston Logan International	USA	BOS	27,052,078	+2.0
30	Singapore Changi	Singapore	SIN	26,064,645	+9.5
31	Tokyo Narita International	Japan	NRT	25,667,634	+5.0
32	Paris Orly	France	ORY	25,349,112	+1.6
33	Rome Fiumicino	Italy	FCO	24,029,326	-5.2
34	New York La Guardia	USA	LGA	23,926,923	+4.9
35	Philadelphia International	USA	PHL	23,791,761	-1.8
36	Honolulu International	USA	HNL	22,560,399	-0.3
37	Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International	USA	CVG	21,771,689	+2.8
38	Sydney Kingsford Smith International	Australia	SYD	21,559,003	+1.9
39	Charlotte Douglas International	USA	CLT	21,441,792	-6.6
40	Munich Franz Josef Strauss	Germany	MUC	21,282,906	+10.2
41	Zurich Kloten	Switzerland	ZRH	20,875,311	+8.3
42	Mexico City Benito Juarez International	Mexico	MEX	20,453,568	+8.0
43	Brussels Zaventem International	Belgium	BRU	20,005,122	+8.2
44	Salt Lake City International	USA	SLC	19,942,795	-1.7
45	Osaka Kansai International	Japan	KIX	19,879,704	+3.8
46	Washington (DC) Dulles International	USA	IAD	19,652,213	+25.8
47	Fukuoka International	Japan	FUK	19,046,281	+8.4
48	Palma de Mallorca Son Sant Joan International	Spain	PMI	19,018,075	+7.7
49	Pittsburgh International	USA	PIT	18,785,728	-8.6
50	Sapporo Chitose	Japan	CTS	18,390,126	+7.2

Source: Airports Council International (ACI)