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These are lists of the busiest
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s in the United States, based on various ranking criteria.


Statistics


Busiest U.S. airports by total passenger boardings

The FAA uses passenger boarding for a full calendar year to determine
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(AIP) entitlements. The term hub is used by the FAA to identify very busy commercial service airports. Large hubs are the airports that each account for at least one percent of total U.S. passenger enplanements. Medium hubs are defined as airports that each account for between 0.25 percent and 1 percent of the total passenger enplanements. The 30 large hubs move 70% of the passengers with a traffic increasing by 2.5% from 2016 to 2017, while the 31 medium hubs grew by 5.2% and 16 airports lost airline services between 2014 and 2018, from 445 to 429. Mainline carriers are up-gauging their fleet while
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s regional aircraft operations and turboprops and 50-seat
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s are abandoned: aircraft with 50 seats or fewer represented 30% of domestic departures and 12% of seats offered in 2014, falling to 19% in 2018 and 7% of seats. Accounting for 18% of passenger traffic, medium hubs stimulate point-to-point services like for Southwest Airlines, operating at 29, carrying most mainline passengers at 24 and more than half at 10.


Large hubs


Medium hubs


Busiest U.S. airports by total passenger traffic

List of busiest airports in the U.S. based on total passengers, data are based on numbers provided from annual or monthly published figures by own airport authorities.


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Listed according to data compiled by
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North America, and ranked according to total passengers during 2016. All 36 airports on this list are also featured on the FAA list, but the order varies. The FAA ranks by passengers boarding. ACI ranks by sum of boarding, disembarking, and flying through without leaving airplane. The statistics are slightly more than twice as high.


Busiest U.S. airports by international passenger traffic


Busiest U.S. airports by total cargo throughput

Listed according to data compiled by the
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for the
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and ranked according to total cargo throughput in pounds during 2017.


See also

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List of airports in the United States The list of airports in the United States is broken down into separate lists due to the large number of airports. Primary airports Public-use and military airports in each U.S. state and territory can be found on the following lists: Airports ...
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List of the busiest airports in California List of the busiest airports in California In Calendar year 2016 (preliminary FAA data) by passenger boardings, not total passengers'', except for Tijuana. While large airports dominant traffic and small airports struggle to retain carriers or com ...
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List of busiest airports by passenger traffic The world's busiest airports by passenger traffic are measured by total passengers (data from Airports Council International), defined as passengers enplaned plus passengers deplaned plus direct-transit passengers. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta In ...


References


External links

United States Department of Transportation: * * * * *
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(FAA)
National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) 2005-2009
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Airport Data (Form 5010)
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