List of the busiest airports in the United States

These are lists of the busiest airports 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 half calendar year to determine Airport Improvement Program (AIP) entitlements. The term hub is used by the FAA to identify 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 scope clauses regional aircraft operations and turboprops and 50-seat regional jets 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 international passenger traffic

Busiest U.S. airports by total cargo throughput

Listed according to data compiled by the Federal Aviation Administration for the United States and ranked according to total cargo throughput in pounds during 2017.

See also

• List of airports in the United States
• List of the busiest airports in California
• List of busiest airports by passenger traffic

References

External links

United States Department of Transportation:

• "Top 20 U.S. Gateways for Nonstop International Air Travel: 2008 and 2009". Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
• "Top 20 U.S. Gateways for Nonstop International Air Travel: 2005 and 2006". Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
• "Top 20 U.S. Gateways for Nonstop International Air Travel: 1990, 1995, and 2000". Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
• "Top 20 Routes for U.S. International Airport Pair Passengers: 1990, 1995, and 2000". Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

• Federal Aviation Administration (FAA): National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) 2005-2009
• FAA National Flight Data Center (NFDC): Airport Data (Form 5010), also available from AirportIQ 5010

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