Beijing is making its way to the top

ACI (Airport Council International) has published figures that show just how much Beijing International is growing as an airport, adding 16% passengers in 2009 whilst overall numbers worldwide were down 2.7%.  Beijing is now number three in the globe, Heathrow at number two, having dramatically overtaken Chicago O’Hare which last year lost 8.8% of its passengers.  Heathrow’s numbers are down 1.5% but the airport’s performance is still far better than Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris, all three of which lost out dramatically, and is comfortably the world’s largest international airport.  In the case of Atlanta and Beijing the great majority of passengers are domestic.  Atlanta 88m (-2.3%), Heathrow 66m (-1.5%), Beijing 65m (16.8%), O’Hare 64m (-8.8%), Tokyo-Haneda 62m (-7.2%), Paris-Charles de Gaulle 58m (-4.9%), Los Angeles 57m (-5.5%), Dallas Fort Worth 56m (1.9%), Frankfurt 51m (4,7%) and Denver 50m (-2.1%). www.aci.aero

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