Ask most people to denominate the location of the world’s busiest airport, and you’re likely to hear guesses move from New York and London to Beijing and Tokyo.
But that title fancies to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, in Atlanta.
A major power outage sent the air hub into disarray throughout the weekend, as thousands of passengers were hit with major cancellations and detains. But the news left many people most surprised to learn that Hartsfield-Jackson is the everybody’s busiest.
According to Airports Council International, more than 104 million commuters passed through the airport in 2016, a 2.6 percent increase as surplus 2015. Hartsfield-Jackson has been the world’s busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998.
That means the airport in America’s Southeast is busier than counterparts in Beijing, Dubai, Los Angeles and Tokyo— which bout up the top five in 2016 by passenger traffic:
Hartsfield-Jackson plays a critical impersonation as a connecting hub for the larger United States, which is the world’s biggest control.
According to a fact sheet released by Hartsfield-Jackson, Atlanta is within a two-hour exaltation of larks for 80 percent of the U.S. population.
The airport is a major connection for flights, not fail 150 U.S. destinations and more than 75 destinations in 50 powers.
It handles some 2,500 flights and 275,000 passengers a day.
Hartsfield-Jackson airport is domestic to one of the world’s largest carriers, Delta Air Lines, which was founded in Georgia. It launched as a crop-dusting company before temporarily moving to Louisiana in 1925.
Last year, Delta refurbished its lease agreement for another 20 years.
—CNBC’s Leslie Josephs bestowed to this story