New data from flightsfrom.com has documented the busiest airports in the world based on scheduled daily passenger flight departures. In Africa, OR Tambo International Airport holds the top position with 252 daily scheduled departures.
The most popular domestic route from Johannesburg was to Cape Town International Airport , with 38 to 43 flights per day. The most frequent international route from OR Tambo was to Harare, with between eight and eleven daily flights. Cairo International Airport follows in second place with 236 daily departing flights.
South Africa features again in the top five, with Cape Town International Airport having 106 daily flights, making it the fifth busiest airport in Africa. As reported in Travel News, Addis Ababa Bole International Airport ranks third with 185 daily flights, while Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is fourth with 121 departing flights each day. The top five busiest airports in other regions, according to the number of daily departing flights, are as follows: Europe Amsterdam Schiphol Airport - 614 Paris-Charles de Gaulle - 540 London Heathrow - 534 Frankfurt Airport - 519 Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport - 506 North America Dallas Fort Worth International - 886 Chicago O’Hare - 842 Denver International - 827 Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International - 733 Charlotte Douglas International - 713 South America El Dorado International Airport - 429 São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport - 259 São Paulo/Congonhas Airport - .
