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We will check more than 50 airport airports in the world in 2024 and compare traffic for 2019 levels.
General Table
The table below shows the 50 most passenger airports in 2024. This blog collected the following data:
A few notes compared to 2019:
- It was 44.9m the threshold to reach the top of 50, compared to 44.3M in 2019.
- For top 10, it was 76.8 million in 2024 compared to 75.1.
- Of the 2024 of the 50 best airports, 30 passengers had more passengers than in 2019, and 20 less.
- The three airports that lost most of the traffic between 2024 and 2019 were: Beijing Beck (32.6 meters), Hong Kong Hongg (11.5 m), and Los Angeles Lux (11.5 meters).
- The three airports that gained the largest number of traffic between 2023 and 2019 were: Doha DOH (14.0), Denver Den (13.4m) and Dallas Fort World (12.7M).
- A few airports are still less than 10 % of the 2019 traffic levels: Los Angeles (LAX), Beijing (PEK), Frankfurt (FRA), Jakarta (CGK) and Hong Kong (HKG).
Compared to 2023:
- Chinese airports and other Asia and the Pacific, who returned closer to 2019 levels, while American airports lost relative sites. It reflects the delay in the restoration of passengers in Asia and the Pacific.
- Roma Fomsino (FCO) has increased dramatically, reflecting long traffic, especially from the United States of America. Mexico has decreased 15 sites (-6.2 % of growth year) due to government policies to reduce traffic.
- Newark (-0.4 %), Orlando (-0.9 %) was the only one that lacks traffic is Newark (-0.4 %) and Orlando (-0.9 %). It results from the lines of spiritual airlines that reduce financial difficulties.
Assembly at the regional level
The table below shows regional groups:
| region | The highest 50 2024 number | 2024 traffic (m) | The best 50 number for 2019 |
| Former Americas in the United States of America | 3 | 138 | 1 |
| Former Asia China | 10 | 625 | -2 |
| China | 12 | 679 | 2 |
| Europe | 8 | 533 | -2 |
| The Middle East | 2 | 145 | 1 |
| USA | 15 | 983 | 0 |
| total | 50 | 3,103 | 0 |
The former Americans, the United States of America, China and the Middle East, have gained airports in the first fifty places, while former Asia lost China and Europe two each. It reflects that Chinese passengers traveled abroad in 2024 compared to 2019, and some airports are behind the traffic recovery.
The total airport traffic was more than 2019 levels 2019: 3.103 million compared to 3,081 million.