- 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:
- ATLANTA, GA (ATL)
- CHICAGO, IL (ORD)
- LONDON, GB (LHR)
- TOKYO, JP (HND)
- PARIS, FR (CDG)
- LOS ANGELES, CA (LAX)
- DALLAS/FT WORTH AIRPORT, TX (DFW)
- BEIJING, CN (PEK)
- FRANKFURT, DE (FRA)
- DENVER, CO (DEN)
- MADRID, ES (MAD)
- AMSTERDAM, NL (AMS)
- NEW YORK, NY (JFK)
- HONG KONG, CN (HKG)
- LAS VEGAS, NV (LAS)