ATL is world’s busiest airport
The “World’s Busiest Airport” title for 2017 will go to a familiar address.
The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is forecast to take that title for 2017, marking the 20th consecutive year that the airport has hosted more passengers than any other airport on the planet. According to preliminary full-year passenger numbers for 2017 released Monday by the Airports Council International (ACI), Atlanta finished ahead of No. 2 Beijing Capital and third-place Dubai. The biggest shakeup for U.S. airports came in New York, where New York JFK fell out of the global top 20.
Atlanta also counted more than 100 million passengers for the third year in a row.
For the year that just ended, Atlanta’s passenger count came in at
103,902,992, according to ACI’s preliminary numbers. Yet the passenger count there dropped by 0.3% from the
104.2 million fliers it counted in 2016.