3-7 Top 20 U.S. Passenger Airports: 1999 v. 2009 Rankings
3-7 Top 20 U.S. Passenger Airports: 1999 v. 2009 Rankings
(Thousands of enplaned passengers on large certificated air carriers)
| Airport | 1999 | 2009 | % Change 1999-2009 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Total enplaned passengers | Rank | Total enplaned passengers | ||
| Atlanta, GA | 1 | 37,232 | 1 | 41,876 | 12.5 |
| Chicago (O'Hare), IL | 2 | 31,658 | 2 | 28,994 | -8.4 |
| Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX | 3 | 27,593 | 3 | 26,333 | -4.6 |
| Denver, CO | 5 | 17,502 | 4 | 23,722 | 35.5 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 4 | 24,044 | 5 | 21,677 | -9.8 |
| Houston (G. Bush), TX | 13 | 14,735 | 6 | 18,610 | 26.3 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 8 | 16,090 | 7 | 18,329 | 13.9 |
| Las Vegas, NV | 10 | 15,367 | 8 | 18,314 | 19.2 |
| Charlotte, NC | 21 | 9,442 | 9 | 17,078 | 80.9 |
| New York (JFK), NY | 20 | 10,138 | 10 | 16,192 | 59.7 |
| San Francisco, CA | 7 | 16,563 | 11 | 15,997 | -3.4 |
| Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN | 9 | 15,391 | 12 | 15,506 | 0.7 |
| Newark, NJ | 12 | 14,912 | 13 | 15,209 | 2.0 |
| Orlando, FL | 16 | 12,564 | 14 | 15,063 | 19.9 |
| Detroit, MI | 6 | 16,570 | 15 | 15,042 | -9.2 |
| Seattle, WA | 14 | 13,064 | 16 | 14,720 | 12.7 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 19 | 10,347 | 17 | 14,714 | 42.2 |
| Miami, FL | 15 | 12,764 | 18 | 13,390 | 4.9 |
| Boston, MA | 17 | 11,091 | 19 | 11,378 | 2.6 |
| New York (La Guardia), NY | 18 | 10,805 | 20 | 10,751 | -0.5 |
| Top 20 airports | 343,360 | 372,894 | 8.6 | ||
| Top 20, percentage of totala | 56.1 | 56.2 | 0.1 | ||
| All airports | 611,582 | 663,173 | 8.4 | ||
a The value in the last column is the percent change in total enplaned passengers from 1999 to 2009.
Notes: The 1999 top 20 airports total does not reflect the total of this table because some airports that appeared in the 1999 top 20 did not appear in the 2009 top 20. Charlotte, NC, was not in the top 20 in 1999. St. Louis (STL), MO, was in the top 20 in 1999 but not in 2009.
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Schedule T-3 Data, special tabulation, April 2010 as reported in U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, table 1-41, available at http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/ as of August 2010.