Good2Know: Five of World's Busiest Airports Located in U.S.

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New data on the world's busiest airports came out for 2022 guess what? It shows five of the top six are right here in the US. Preliminary air traffic figures show that Hartsfield Jackson in Atlanta has the top spot again this past year, followed by Dallas Fort Worth, Denver and Chicago o'hare. Lax came in at number six airports in Dubai, London and Paris also made the top 10, you know, interestingly, Baker, I was looking at these numbers and Atlanta routinely makes the top of this list year after year, but actually they had about 94 million passengers pass through in 2022 that's still 15% less than pre pandemic, which is wild. So the recovery hasn't even completed and it's still the busiest in the entire world. And look, we should also note a lot of these airports, Denver, Dallas Hartsfield Atlanta, you were just mentioning and Chicago her recently also made the list of the airports with the longest delays when it came to when it comes to a lot of these airlines. We should note a lot of these are hubs. They what's called a hub and spoke. So you'll have Chicago Hair is a place where a lot of people get their connections in particular. So it makes sense that it's also the busiest and heavily traffic because of all the connections that people are making on these. Yes, Baker. And if you've ever been to one of those airports, I know I've spent significant amounts of time at o'hare. For example, you can tell it's one of the busiest in the world. It is just absolutely bonkers with the delays with the crowds. So you can really feel it.