Interesting facts about airports

  • Five percent of plane passengers obtain their boarding pass through the Internet.
  • The average wait time at large airports is sixteen minutes, fifteen minutes at medium airports and thirteen minutes at small airports.
  • Over eighty-nine million passengers travel anually through the airport in Atlanta, the world's busiest.
  • The longest airport track in the world is located in Tibet (5.5 km). 
  • Sydney's airport is the oldest in the world. He began operations in January 1920.
  • The United States has 1/3 of the airports in the world.
  • Vancouver, Canada has 7 airports located around the city.

These are the fifteen busiest airports in the world according to passenger traffic:
  1. ATLANTA, GA (ATL)
  2. CHICAGO, IL (ORD)
  3. LONDON, GB (LHR)
  4. TOKYO, JP (HND)
  5. PARIS, FR (CDG)
  6. LOS ANGELES, CA (LAX)
  7. DALLAS/FT WORTH AIRPORT, TX (DFW)
  8. BEIJING, CN (PEK)
  9. FRANKFURT, DE (FRA)
  10. DENVER, CO (DEN)
  11. MADRID, ES (MAD)
  12. AMSTERDAM, NL (AMS)
  13. NEW YORK, NY (JFK)
  14. HONG KONG, CN (HKG)
  15. LAS VEGAS, NV (LAS)