Busiest US airports

The busiest US airports in any year since 1990, by passengers, departures, destinations or freight. Pick one to see where it flies and how its routes changed, or browse them on the map.

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Busiest airports

The table lists the rows chosen above, ranked by the column you sort by. Domestic and international flights are the ones BTS files in each of its two data sets, and a destination counts as domestic or international by where most of the route's flights are filed. Load factor is passengers as a share of seats. Destinations counts other airports with at least 24 flights to and from them that year (for all years, in some year), each counted once. A city is a BTS city market (New York is JFK, LaGuardia and Newark): its row adds up its airports, counts each destination once, and opens to list them, with any airport under 2% of the city's flights, passengers and freight added up as "other airports". Freight is in short tons (2,000 lb). Hover over a number for the exact figure. What the columns mean. On the map, routes with fewer than 24 flights a year, both ways, are hidden. More on directions.