Leading airports worldwide based on aircraft movements 2023

In 2022, there were over 775,818 take-offs and landings at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, making it the world's busiest airport by aircraft movements. The majority of the top ten world's airports in terms of aircraft movements were located in the U.S. that year.

Airport services worldwide

Introduction of traditional airport services in the 1910s ameliorated many of the troubles passengers or air cargo firms faced. As an infrastructure, an airport offers a multitude of services to improve the quality of air travel or transportation. The continuous search for larger business opportunities reshaped the aviation industry such that airports became a more integral part of the global logistics industry providing a number of services for travelers and cargo. Although airports have a fixed location, they compete with other airports through attracting a diverse network of connections, quality of service and a multitude of optimization strategies. Consequently, the airports operation market size increased and reached the value of 239 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. Airports are known for their non-punctual service mostly because of the nature of operations, which are dependent on the smooth functioning of the entire economic web. Yet, there are some airports with distinctive organizational structure to buffer potential delays. In 2022, the world’s most punctual major airport was Japan's Haneda Airport (HND) with an on-time performance score of over 90 points out of 100.

Chicago O’Hare International Airport

Opened in 1944, Chicago O’Hare International Airport became one of the busiest air transportation hubs in the world. As a publicly operated airport, Chicago O’Hare was built after surging demand for air travel capacity. Since multitude types of airline businesses offer various services from low-cost to traditional aviation, more demand emerges for air travel and airport services. Like other major airports in the world, Chicago O’Hare Airport has been negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, passenger traffic at Chicago O’Hare Airport reached 54 million travelers, up from roughly 31 million in 2020. Still, the 2021 passenger volume was way below pre-pandemic levels, which reached nearly 85 million passengers in 2019.