Table 16 Top 20 U.S. Passenger Airports
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Table 16 Top 20 U.S. Passenger Airports
(Thousands of enplaned passengers on large certificated air carriers)
| Airport | 1993 | 2003 |
%
change 1993-2003 |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Total enplaned passengers |
Rank | Total enplaned passengers |
||
| Atlanta (Hartsfield), GA | 3 | 22,295 | 1 | 38,229 | 71.5 |
| Chicago (O'Hare), IL | 1 | 28,459 | 2 | 30,798 | 8.2 |
| Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX | 2 | 24,654 | 3 | 24,502 | -0.6 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 4 | 18,445 | 4 | 20,913 | 13.4 |
| Denver, CO | 5 | 14,210 | 5 | 17,272 | 21.5 |
| Phoenix (Sky Harbor), AZ | 7 | 11,294 | 6 | 17,176 | 52.1 |
| Las Vegas (McCarran), NV | 13 | 10,118 | 7 | 16,702 | 65.1 |
| Houston (Intercontinental), TX | 18 | 8,697 | 8 | 15,495 | 78.2 |
| Minneapolis, MN | 10 | 10,377 | 9 | 15,362 | 48 |
| Detroit (Wayne County), MI | 8 | 11,045 | 10 | 14,656 | 32.7 |
| Newark, NJ | 9 | 10,970 | 11 | 13,088 | 19.3 |
| Seattle, WA | 16 | 9,010 | 12 | 12,788 | 41.9 |
| San Francisco, CA | 6 | 14,004 | 13 | 12,228 | -12.7 |
| Orlando, FL | 17 | 8,725 | 14 | 12,049 | 38.1 |
| Miami, FL | 12 | 10,138 | 15 | 11,050 | 9 |
| New York (John F. Kennedy), NY | 21 | 8,258 | 16 | 10,746 | 30.1 |
| Cincinnati, OH | 27 | 5,128 | 17 | 10,257 | 100 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 23 | 7,294 | 18 | 10,185 | 39.6 |
| New York (La Guardia), NY | 15 | 9,340 | 19 | 10,136 | 8.5 |
| Charlotte (Douglas), NC | 22 | 7,805 | 20 | 9,573 | 22.6 |
| Top 20 airports | 250,266 | 323,205 | 29.1 | ||
| All airports | 466,677 | 593,974 | 27.3 | ||
Note: Numbers may not add to totals due to rounding.
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Airline Information, Schedule T-3 data, special tabulation, October 2004.