Which airport is bigger JFK or Atlanta?

The largest airport in this ranking is the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport in the United States. With 724,145 starts and landings in 2022, it belongs without doubt on the list of the biggest airports worldwide.



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The biggest airports in the USA by size
  • 1- Denver International Airport, Colorado – 135 square kilometres. ...
  • 2- Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas – 69 square kilometres. ...
  • 3- Orlando International Airport, Florida – 54 square kilometres. ...
  • 4- Washington Dulles International Airport, Virginia – 52 square kilometres.


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#9 John F Kennedy International Airport, New York The 20.9 km2 international airport mainly serves New York City, and it's the busiest of the seven in the city's aviation system. In 2021, John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) was ranked the 13th busiest airport in the country.

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#1 Denver International Airport, Colorado With a land size of 33,531 acres and 135.7 kilometers square, Denver International Airport (DIA) is the second-largest airport in the world. It is second only to Saudi Arabia's King Fahd International Airport.

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The airport is the busiest of the seven airports in the New York airport system, the 6th-busiest airport in the United States, and the busiest international air passenger gateway into North America. The facility covers 5,200 acres (2,104 ha) and is the largest and busiest airport in the New York City area.

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Covering an area of around 27 sq miles, Dallas International Airport is the third largest airport in the world.

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Why Atlanta's Airport Is King. Delta, headquartered in Atlanta, is one of the world's largest airlines, toting around some 200 million passengers a year. Hartsfield-Jackson is the carrier's (and the world's) biggest hub. According to Delta, about 745 Delta flights, to more than 275 cities, leave ATL every day.

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Atlanta, though, benefits from a strong home airline — Delta — favorable geography to capture many busy traffic flows, relatively low airport costs, a terminal layout conducive to facilitating flight connections, limited competition from other hubs, and the presence of many medium-sized cities throughout the southeast ...

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Today, Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) is known for being one of the world's largest mega hubs. In 2022, it was the second largest airport globally by passenger numbers, only behind Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson, and third in aircraft movements overall (behind Atlanta and Chicago O'Hare).

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The rather unique honor of hosting the smaller airport in the US goes to Montana. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the Dawson Community Airport is the smallest in America. It covers a mere 413 acres and is at an elevation of 2,458 feet, and is five miles northwest of Glendive in Dawson County.

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Delta is #1 With more than a third of flights, Delta is JFK's leading carrier overall and domestically but is second to JetBlue internationally. Of course, this is primarily because JetBlue has three and a half times as many flights to the Caribbean, a good-sized slice of JetBlue's JFK pie.

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JFK has five active terminals, containing 130 gates in total. The terminals are numbered 1–8 but skipping terminals 2 (permanently closed in 2023), 3 (demolished in 2013) and 6 (demolished in 2011).

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ATL covers 4,700 acres (1,900 ha) of land and has five parallel runways. Since 1998, Hartsfield-Jackson has been the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic. In 2022, the airport had over 93.6 million passengers, the most of any airport in the world.

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Denver International Airport Situated in Denver, Colorado, USA, Denver International Airport covers an area of 135.69 square kilometres, making it the second-largest airport in the world.

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