2 CDG 7,173,000 pax
3 NRT 7,097,000 pax
4 FRA 6,711,000 pax
5 ICN 6,199,000 pax
6 AMS 5,232,000 pax
7 HKG 3,414,000 pax
8 PEK 3,317,000 pax
9 PVG 3,104,000 pax
10 TPE 3,036,000 pax
Notes:
• I made this list based on data freshly culled from US DOT's latest report of US International Air Passenger and Freight Statistics for 2017 (available at https://www.transportation.gov/sites/do ... 2017_0.pdf), with the extra visualization thing to help ppl get a better grasp of the raw stats and the list in a more appealing way (Hope you would enjoy it)
• The list is focused on intercontinental gateway airports to the United States faraway from continental US with a distance of over 5,000 km, hence excluding neighboring airports of the country like YYZ, CUN, MEX, etc. But please bear in mind the stats for the airports in the list count in pax traffic to American overseas territories like Guam
• The pax traffic is two-way
A few noteworthy points for this list:
All four major West European hub airports have made into the list, with LHR perching atop, which should be unsurprising
Yet it's still amazing to find LHR running streets ahead of others, with twice as much pax traffic as its closest chaser CDG
NRT and ICN are the extraordinary Asian duo of intercontinental gateways to the US, on a par with 3 other European hubs featuring CDG, FRA and AMS, all of which figure prominently in rankings at the heels of one another
The 4 hubs—HKG, PEK, PVG, TPE—in the region of Greater China all show up in the list too, albeit at the bottom; yet interestingly, their pax counts are spread pretty evenly in the 3-3.5 million range
Any thoughts?
PS: US DOT has set a real good example for the rest of the world to follow in sharing Open Gov't Data and Stats as seen in the linked report, esp in this Big-data age when data means so much in an industry like civil aviation. Hope more aviation regulators would follow up in this action
