What is the number 1 busiest airport in the world?

Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport remains the busiest airport in the world with 5.2 million seats in September 2023. The composition of the Global Top 10 Busiest Airports is also the same as last month but there are a few changes to the rankings.



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Heathrow Airport in London is the UK's largest and busiest airport as well as being the busiest airport in Europe and the seventh busiest in the world based on passenger traffic.

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London Heathrow (LHR) is the busiest airport in the UK, handling almost twice the number of passengers as the next entry on the list.

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Kirkwall is the quietest airport in the UK. Loganair is the only airline to service this airstrip on the Orkney Islands regularly. Flights operate to Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, and Sumburgh.

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Using the full-year 2022 annual passenger numbers from the UK Civil Aviation (CAA), the following are the top 5 airports.
  1. 1 London Heathrow – 61.6 million passengers. ...
  2. 2 London Gatwick – 32.83 million passengers. ...
  3. 3 Manchester – 23.34 million passengers. ...
  4. 4 London Stansted – 23.29 million passengers.


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Heathrow is larger and has better links in and out of the airport to Central London. Heathrow has five terminals and four runways. Meanwhile, Gatwick has two terminals and two runways. Heathrow is nearer to Central London.

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The airfield is managed by three FAA air traffic control towers. O'Hare has a voluntary nighttime (22:00–07:00) noise abatement program. Currently, O'Hare has the most runways of any civilian airport in the world, totaling eight.

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How many planes fly over the UK every day? Each day, around 6,000 aircraft and 600,000 people fly above our heads in UK skies. At NATS we manage a complex 'invisible infrastructure' that helps a diverse variety of airspace users – including leisure, commercial, cargo and military users – to operate safely in the sky.

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Heathrow (LHR) is the largest airport in United Kingdom and is based in London. You can fly to 224 destinations with 82 airlines in scheduled passenger traffic.

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Heathrow is one of the busiest two-runway airports in the world with about 1,300 combined take-offs and landings a day under normal pre-Covid conditions.

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Shoreham Airport, UK The UK's oldest airport is at Shoreham, near Brighton. It opened in 1910 with a number of flying enthusiasts using it as a base for bold, early flights. The first (according to the airport's documented history) was Harold Piffard.

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Longest Runway in the UK London Heathrow 09L/27R at 12,799ft x 164ft (3,902m x 50m) is currently the longest active runway in the UK.

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'London's largest airport, Heathrow, is hemmed in by the suburbs and limited to just two runways,' he explains. 'Because it can't expand, the demand for air travel is met by smaller, single-runway airports around the South-East: Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and Southend.

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Which UK Commercial Airports Have The Longest Active Runways?
  • 1 London Heathrow.
  • 2 London Gatwick.
  • 3 Birmingham.
  • 4 Manchester.
  • 5 London Stansted.


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London Southend Airport (SEN) Southend Airport is London's smallest airport, and one of the low-cost hubs for destinations across Europe.

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