Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, has been ranked as the number one airport globally in aircraft movement with 724,145 movements in 2022.
According to a recent Airports Council International (ACI), the 2022 global aircraft movements are close to 89 million, constituting a gain of 20.4% from 2021 results.
This represents a recovery of 82.5% from pre-pandemic levels (2019).
The top 10 airports for aircraft movements, representing close to 7% of global traffic (5.7 million movements), witnessed a gain of 11.4% from their 2021 results, recovering to 91.5% vis-à-vis their 2019 results (6.2 million in 2019).
ATL is at the top with 724 thousand movements (+2.3% from 2021) but still below its 2019 result of 904 thousand movements (-19.9%). ORD (712 thousand movements, +4%) is in 2nd rank after leading ATL in 2019 and 2018, followed by DFW (657 thousand movements, +0.7%).
