Chicago O'Hare International Airport
Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
O'Hare International Airport
O'Hare International Airport (ORD) spans 30.86km² in the north-west metropolitan area of Chicago. It is the busiest airport on this list and sixth busiest in the world, handling 79 million passengers and experiencing 867,049 aircraft movements in 2017.
O'Hare Airport in known worldwide as a busy airport, in fact, is one of the busiest airports in the world. It is preferred for international flights, while Midway is better for domestic flights as it offers shorter lines.
Most of the airports that top the list of being the busiest didn't rank in the list of the biggest airports. The world's busiest airport for the past 20 years, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport, is nowhere to be seen in the largest airports list. Yet, they handle over 107 million passengers a year.
World's Busiest Airports
Rank | Airport | Total passengers |
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1. | Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport | 43,760,427 |
2. | Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport | 42,918,685 |
3. | Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport | 40,741,509 |
4. | Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport | 39,364,990 |
King Fahd International Airport
In terms of overall size, the King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia is the world's biggest airport by an overwhelming margin. Taking up nearly 300 square miles, this former United States airbase very nearly matches the area of all five boroughs of New York City put together (302.6 mi2).
Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport has been the busiest airport (by passenger number) for many years. The airport's strategic location and role as the main hub for one of the world's largest airlines combine to make it the busiest in the world.
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
In 2020, there were 548,000 take-offs and landings at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, making it the world's busiest airport by aircraft movements.
Delta Air Lines
Hartsfield–Jackson is the primary hub of Delta Air Lines. With just over 1,000 flights a day to 225 domestic and international destinations, the Delta hub is the world's largest airline hub and is considered the first mega-hub in America.
Walkability is part of the reason Atlanta has grabbed a larger and larger share of the region's growth. As the suburbs have continued to grow, traffic congestion is a growing struggle for those who have to travel to the area's economic center for work. Traffic has become a major influence on where people want to live.
Atlanta was founded in 1837 as the end of the Western & Atlantic railroad line (it was first named Marthasville in honor of the then-governor's daughter, nicknamed Terminus for its rail location, and then changed soon after to Atlanta, the feminine of Atlantic -- as in the railroad).
Atlanta was named by J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad. The city was named for former Governor Wilson Lumpkin's daughter's. Her middle name was Atalanta, after the fleet-footed goddess.
Millennium Gate Museum at Atlantic Station. National Center for Civil and Human Rights. College Football Hall of Fame. Trap Music Museum.
Black-eyed peas, cornbread, collard greens, mac and cheese, sweet potato pie, fried chicken, banana pudding — these are just some of the mouth wateringly good soul food dishes that are abundant in Atlanta.
The state of Georgia had just decided to build a railroad connecting the Midwest and the East Coast, and a place needed to be chosen as the railroad's end, the “terminus.” A large stone stake was driven into the Georgia earth in 1837 to mark the zero milepost and the resulting settlement named Terminus, meaning “end of ...
January
The coldest month of the year in Atlanta is January, with an average low of 35°F and high of 53°F.
March
Averaging over many years, the driest months are September and October while the wettest month is March.
City | Cloud | Fog |
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Atlanta, Georgia | 149 | 159 |
Austin, Texas | 136 | 127 |
Baltimore, Maryland | 152 | 144 |
Birmingham, Alabama | 155 | 178 |
Yes, it does snow in Atlanta, despite the city's warmer climate and predisposition for rain and ice over snow. An Atlanta snowstorm can cause serious disruptions, even with just a few inches lying on the ground, because the locals lack familiarity with this type of weather.