Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has retained the title as the World’s Busiest Airport for 18 years, according to city officials.
The airport saw more than 101.4 million passengers in 2015, making it the first airport ever to serve more than 100 million passengers in a single year, officials said. The 2015 total passenger number represented a 5.52 percent increase over the 2014 total of more than 96.1 million passengers.
“Hartsfield-Jackson is once again leading the global aviation industry and last year’s performance confirms that Atlanta’s airport is still the busiest airport on the planet,” Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said, according to an airport news release. “This designation is not only a bragging right, but it underscores the airport’s ability to move over a hundred million passengers and hundreds of thousands of takeoffs and landings with seamless efficiency. I am proud of the Hartsfield-Jackson team and their unwavering dedication to not only ensuring we are the busiest, but also the best airport in the world.”