Atlanta remains busiest U.S. airport in 2020
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International saw steep drops in traffic in 2020, but with air travel everywhere taking a hit from the COVID-19 pandemic, it still handled more passengers than any other U.S. airport.
The Atlanta airport had 20.6 million passengers boarding flights in 2020 – a 62 percent decline from a year earlier, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The traffic put Hartsfield-Jackson ahead of Dallas/Fort Worth in second place, Denver in third place, Chicago O’Hare in fourth and Los Angeles International in fifth.
Atlanta’s airport has held the No. 1 ranking in the world for passenger traffic since 1998, but 2020 global rankings have not yet been released.