One of the objective of the trip was to meet the busiest airports in the world. Including my previous trips and my future segment, I will have visited 80% of the top 15 busiest airport by passenger traffic (see below)... (Missing only Beijing, Jakarta and Guangzhou)
Taking off from Nice, I will fly to the congested London Heathrow (operating at 98+% of its capacity, it has very few room to recover from averse weather or aircraft issue on the runway). Maybe one day politicians in charge in UK will have the guts to act and choose: the solutions to add more capacity have all been defined/proposed (like
building a third runway or extending other airports)...
View Larger Map of Nice Cote d'Azur
View Larger Map of London Heathrow
Story about the other airports I will visit will follow in other posts
| 1. |
 Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport |
Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
ATL/KATL |
38,154,391 |
 |
 0.1% |
| 2. |
 Beijing Capital International Airport |
Chaoyang, Beijing, China |
PEK/ZBAA |
33,917,960 |
|
 4.0% |
| 3. |
 London Heathrow Airport |
Hillingdon, London, United Kingdom |
LHR/EGLL |
27,878,945 |
|
1.9% |
| 4. |
 Dubai International Airport |
Garhoud, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
DXB/OMDB |
27,124,195 |
6 |
16.8% |
| 5. |
 Tokyo International Airport |
Ōta, Tokyo, Japan |
HND/RJTT |
26,522,936 |
1 |
1.1% |
| 6. |
Los Angeles International Airport |
Los Angeles, California, United States |
LAX/KLAX |
26,163,993 |
|
3.8% |
| 7. |
O'Hare International Airport |
Chicago, Illinois, United States |
ORD/KORD |
25,804,530 |
2 |
3.2% |
| 8. |
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport |
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, United States |
DFW/KDFW |
24,313,911 |
|
3.8% |
| 9. |
 Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport |
Roissy-en-France, Tremblay-en-France, Mitry-Mory, Île-de-France, France |
CDG/LFPG |
23,994,717 |
2 |
0.6% |
| 10. |
 Soekarno-Hatta International Airport |
Cengkareng, Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia |
CGK/WIII |
23,780,418 |
1 |
2.8% |
| 11. |
 Hong Kong International Airport |
Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong, China |
HKG/VHHH |
23,780,000 |
1 |
4.4% |
| 12. |
 Suvarnabhumi Airport |
Bang Phli, Samut Prakan, Thailand |
BKK/VTBS |
21,784,782 |
2 |
6.8% |
| 13. |
 Frankfurt Airport |
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany |
FRA/EDDF |
21,731,996 |
2 |
1.5% |
| 14. |
 Singapore Changi Airport |
Changi, East Region, Singapore |
SIN/WSSS |
21,573,445 |
1 |
4.8% |
| 15. |
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport |
Huadu, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China |
CAN/ZGGG |
21,232,272 |
3 |
7.3% |
2013 - Source
Wikipedia/ACI
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