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Hartsfield-Jackson remains the busiest airport in the world

Airline News
In the last years, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport became the first airport in the world to be the most transited in one year, with over 100 million passengers (with a 5.5% increase compared to 2014)

Instead, if considering the number of takeoffs and landings, the 1st place is occupied by Chicago O'Hare International Airport, with 888,000 movements per year, writes Business Insider.
On the second rank there is the Beijing International Airport, maintaining its position with more than 86.1 million passengers that had transited the Chinese airport. The 3rd position is occupied by Dubai International Airport, the busiest airport in the world by international passenger traffic. Dubai Airport gained this position at the end of 2014 in front of the airport of Heathrow.

Atlanta International Airport Hartsfield-Jackson is located 11 Km south of the city's central district of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The airport construction was completed on April 16, 1925, and in 1930 was already in the top three busiest airports in the US. It currently has 195 boarding gates, 186 of which are international. Atlanta International Airport is the hub for some of the most important airlines in US and worldwide, such as AirTran Airways, Delta Air Lines, Delta Connection, partner of Atlantic Southeast Airlines. More, it is the largest Delta Air hub in the world.
Currently, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is in passing an important process of modernization and expansion, to be completed by the end of the next year, implementing some ecological and sustainable measures.

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