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3-11 Top 20 U.S. Gateways for Nonstop International Air Travel, Enplaned Passengers: 2009 and 2010

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

3-11 Top 20 U.S. Gateways for Nonstop International Air Travel, Enplaned Passengers: 2009 and 2010

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Total enplaned passengers (thousands)

2010 rank Gateway airport 2009 2010 % change 2009-2010
1 New York (JFK), NY 21,488 22,797 6.1
2 Miami, FL 15,836 16,735 5.7
3 Los Angeles, CA 14,833 15,416 3.9
4 Newark, NJ 10,677 11,382 6.6
5 Chicago (OHare), IL 10,185 10,443 2.5
6 Atlanta, GA 8,765 9,123 4.1
7 San Francisco, CA 7,890 8,489 7.6
8 Houston (G. Bush), TX 7,606 8,332 9.5
9 Washington (Dulles), DC 5,986 6,170 3.1
10 Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX 4,668 5,049 8.2
11 Philadelphia, PA 3,739 3,800 1.7
12 Boston, MA 3,473 3,645 5.0
13 Honolulu, HI 3,276 3,601 9.9
14 Fort Lauderdale, FL 2,933 3,328 13.5
15 Orlando, FL 2,816 3,078 9.3
16 Detroit, MI 2,738 2,885 5.3
17 Charlotte, NC 2,344 2,690 14.8
18 Seattle-Tacoma, WA 2,528 2,668 5.6
19 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN 2,214 2,284 3.1
20 Phoenix, AZ 1,862 2,132 14.5
Total, top 20 U.S. international airports 136,138 144,047 5.8
Top 20, percentage of totalb 89.9 90.0 0.1
Total, all U.S. international airports 151,359 160,029 5.7

Notes: Ranked by 2010 passengers. International passengers are residents of any country traveling nonstop to and from the United States on U.S. and foreign carriers. Data cover all passengers arriving and departing from U.S. airports on nonstop commercial international flights with 60 seats or more.

Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Airline Information, T-100 International Segment Data, special calculation, September 2011.