Airports: where every flight plan begins and ends.

Hub for Ethiopian Airlines

More than 90% of its passenger traffic is carried by a single airline, Ethiopian Airlines, which also owns and operates the airport itself.

Hub for Iberia

Its Terminal 4, designed by Richard Rogers, won the RIBA Stirling Prize for its wave-form roof and colour-coded structural columns.

Hub for KLM

Sits roughly 3 meters below sea level on land reclaimed from a former lake — its name literally references ships that once sank there ("ship hole").

Hub for LATAM Airlines

Its international terminal was entirely rebuilt and reopened in 2022, more than doubling the airport's capacity.

Hub for Air New Zealand

The busiest single-runway airport in all of Oceania — a second parallel runway is under construction to relieve the bottleneck.

Hub for Air China

Its Terminal 3, opened in 2008 for the Beijing Olympics, was the largest airport terminal building in the world by floor space at the time.

Hub for Qantas, Virgin Australia

Its second, parallel runway, opened in 2020, is spaced far enough from the original that both can operate fully independently, even in poor visibility.

Hub for EgyptAir

One of the busiest airports in Africa; its third runway, opened in 2010, was built long enough to accommodate the Airbus A380.

Hub for IndiGo, Air India

Its two runways intersect rather than run in parallel, so only one can be used at a time — yet it still handles nearly 1,000 flights a day.

Hub for United Airlines, American Airlines

Its runway layout was completely rebuilt under the $6 billion, two-decade O'Hare Modernization Plan, converting a crisscross layout into mostly parallel runways to cut delays.

Hub for SAS (Scandinavian Airlines)

One of the oldest continuously operating airports in the world, having opened in 1925 — decades before most other major European hubs.

Hub for American Airlines

At roughly 17,200 acres, its land area is larger than the island of Manhattan, and it has more runways than any other major US airport.

Hub for United Airlines, Southwest Airlines

The largest airport in North America by land area — big enough to contain the island of Manhattan roughly twice over — with a tent-like roof designed to evoke the Rocky Mountains.

Hub for Emirates

Has been the world's busiest airport for international passenger traffic for over a decade running, achieved with only two runways on a tightly constrained footprint.

Hub for Avianca

Overtook São Paulo–Guarulhos and Mexico City in 2024 to become the busiest airport in Latin America by passenger traffic, cargo volume, and aircraft movements combined.

Hub for Lufthansa

Ranked the world's leading airport for global hub connectivity in 2024, reflecting how densely its schedule is built around connecting passengers.

Hub for China Southern Airlines

Home hub of China Southern Airlines, the largest airline in China by fleet size, and one of the few airports in the world to operate five runways.

Hub for Qatar Airways

One of its two runways, at 4,850 meters, is among the longest commercial runways in the world.

Hub for Delta Air Lines

The world's busiest airport by passenger traffic almost every year since 1998, a streak driven by Delta's massive domestic connecting hub.

Hub for Cathay Pacific

Built on an artificial island formed by leveling two smaller islands and reclaiming land from the sea, replacing the notoriously tight approach into old Kai Tak Airport.

Hub for Korean Air

Built by reclaiming land between two islands, Yeongjong and Yongyu, off the coast near Seoul.

Hub for IndiGo, Air India

The first airport in India to operate four runways, and its Terminal 3 was one of the largest airport terminal buildings in the world when it opened in 2010.

Hub for Turkish Airlines

Its single terminal building, at 1.44 million square meters under one roof, is the largest airport terminal structure in the world.

Hub for Delta Air Lines, JetBlue

Its former TWA Flight Center, the swooping 1962 Eero Saarinen terminal, was preserved and reopened as a hotel rather than demolished during JFK's ongoing redevelopment.

Hub for Vueling

Its Terminal 1, designed by architect Ricardo Bofill and opened in 2009, roughly doubled the airport's capacity in a single project.

Hub for Saudia

Its striking tent-roofed Hajj Terminal was built specifically to handle the huge seasonal surges of pilgrims arriving for Hajj.

Hub for Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia

Its main terminal, designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa, is built around a landscaped "Jungle Boardwalk" that brings a patch of real tropical rainforest inside the building.

Hub for British Airways, Virgin Atlantic

Despite having only two runways, it set a new all-time passenger record in 2024 while operating at close to its legally capped annual movement limit.

Hub for American Airlines, Delta Air Lines

Its Theme Building, a Space-Age "flying saucer on legs" completed in 1961, remains one of the most recognizable pieces of Googie architecture at any airport in the world.

Hub for Qantas, Jetstar

Australia's second-busiest airport, and — unlike Sydney, Brisbane, or Perth — still has no direct rail link into the city center.

Hub for Aeroméxico

With only two runways handling over 1,000 aircraft movements a day on average, it's widely cited as the busiest two-runway airport in the world.

Hub for American Airlines

The busiest US airport for international passenger traffic every year since 2021, and American Airlines' single largest hub.

Hub for Aerolíneas Argentinas

When it opened in 1949 it was reportedly the third-largest airport in the world — one of the most modern of its era.

Hub for Royal Air Maroc

Morocco's busiest airport, currently undergoing a major expansion — including a new terminal targeted for 2029 — to lift capacity toward 20 million passengers a year.

Hub for Lufthansa

Has its own on-site brewery, Airbräu, believed to be the only brewery located inside an airport terminal anywhere in the world.

Hub for Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways

Its 1970s construction was delayed for years by fierce local land protests, which is why the airport's runway layout is unusually fragmented compared to other major gateways.

Hub for South African Airways

Renamed in 2006 to honor anti-apartheid leader Oliver Tambo, replacing its original name, Jan Smuts Airport.

Hub for Air France

Its original circular Terminal 1, designed by Paul Andreu, is a Brutalist landmark whose satellite piers are linked by underground moving-walkway tunnels.

Hub for ITA Airways

Named for Leonardo da Vinci, it was Europe's fastest-growing major airport in 2024, setting a single-day record of over 180,000 passengers.

Hub for United Airlines, Alaska Airlines

Its closely spaced parallel runways sit near San Francisco Bay and required the FAA to develop a special simultaneous offset instrument approach just to keep dual arrivals flowing in poor visibility.

Hub for LATAM Airlines Brazil

Brazil's largest airport and its principal intercontinental gateway, capable of handling wide-bodies up to the Airbus A380.

Hub for China Eastern Airlines

Built largely from scratch on then-undeveloped land east of the Huangpu River, purpose-built as Shanghai's dedicated international gateway.

Hub for Singapore Airlines

Home to Jewel Changi, a shopping-and-nature complex built around the world's tallest indoor waterfall, at about 40 meters.

Hub for Thai Airways

Its control tower, at about 132 meters, was one of the tallest airport control towers in the world when the airport opened in 2006.

Hub for Qantas

One of the oldest continuously operating commercial airports in the world, uniquely hemmed in by Botany Bay with runways running right along the waterline.

Hub for Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways

Its fourth runway, "D-Runway," was partly built on a pile-supported structure over Tokyo Bay so all four runways could operate simultaneously.

Hub for Air Canada

Its original 1964 terminal, "Aeroquay 1," was one of the world's first circular airport terminals, designed to put every gate within a short walk of the curb.

Hub for Austrian Airlines

Set an all-time passenger record in 2024, finally surpassing its pre-pandemic 2019 peak.

Hub for Etihad Airways

Its Terminal A, opened in late 2023 and covering 742,000 square meters, is one of the largest single airport buildings in the world and nearly tripled the airport's capacity.

Hub for Swiss International Air Lines

Uses an unusual three-runway layout in which two of the runways physically intersect, requiring especially careful air traffic sequencing.