Airport articles

Wikivoyage has articles for several dozen of the world's largest and most-complicated international airports. They are designed to help you navigate safely and comfortably around them, and provide essential knowledge such as information on eating and sleeping options in the airport, and onward travel advice. This article lists our current airport articles by continent and city.

If you know of a major international airport not listed here that deserves its own article, first take a look at our Airport expedition, then plunge forward!

Africa
Johannesburg O.R. Tambo International is Africa's busiest airport
Greenery in Terminal 3 of Singapore Changi Airport

Johannesburg

Asia

Bangkok

Beijing

  • 🌍 Capital Airport. The second busiest airport in the world by passenger count. As of 2017 construction for an even bigger airport to replace or supplement this airport is underway.  

Busan

  • 🌍 Gimhae Airport. Overtaken as the biggest South Korean airport outside greater Seoul by the one serving Jeju.  

Delhi

Doha

Dubai

  • 🌍 Dubai Airport. The world's busiest airport for international traffic, due to its strategic location between east and west. Much of its traffic is connecting traffic on the Middle East carrier Emirates rather than origin or destination.  

Guangzhou

Hong Kong

  • 🌍 Hong Kong Airport (Chek Lap Kok). Also known as Chek Lap Kok to distinguish it from the now-closed airport at Kai Tak which it replaced in 1997  

Jakarta

Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe)

Kuala Lumpur

Manila

Mumbai

Nagoya

Seoul

  • 🌍 Incheon Airport. Opened in 2001 to relieve old Gimpo airport, Incheon is the primary international and intercontinental hub while Gimpo handles domestic and short haul international flights  

Shanghai

Singapore

Taipei

Tel Aviv

  • 🌍 Ben Gurion Airport. Despite lying in a very tense region and Israel (as well as its national symbols and aviation) frequently being the target of terrorism, the airport enjoys a stellar reputation for safety and security.  

Tokyo

Europe
Barcelona-El Prat, exterior of Terminal 2
Fine woodwork in the check-in at Oslo

Amsterdam

  • 🌍 Schiphol Airport. Hub for flag carrier KLM, one of the oldest airlines in the world and one of the top contenders for "most countries served from one airport". Curiously lies below sea level, which is interesting because its name means "ship grave".  

Barcelona

  • 🌍 El Prat Airport. Spain's amusingly-named second hub has some architectural features of the modernisme movement that helped make Barcelona's name. The route MAD-BCN was among the ten busiest in the world until competition with high speed rail made flights increasingly unattractive.  

Copenhagen

Frankfurt

Helsinki

  • 🌍 Helsinki Airport. Historically one of Europe's airports with the most connections to east Asia, as it is close enough to the north pole for air routes avoiding Soviet (now Russian) airspace  

Istanbul

  • 🌍 Atatürk Airport. Named after the honorific ("father of the Turks") granted to the founder and first president of modern Turkey.  
  • 🌍 Istanbul Airport (New). A megaproject still only partially open.  

London

  • 🌍 Gatwick Airport. London's second hub is as drab and functional as they come.  
  • 🌍 Heathrow Airport. Europe's busiest airport by international traffic, and the world's second.  
  • 🌍 Stansted Airport. Busy low cost and business aviation hub.  

Madrid

  • 🌍 Adolfo Suárez Airport (Barajas Airport). Spain's main hub has Europe's best air links to Latin America.  

Manchester

Milan

  • 🌍 Malpensa Airport.  

Moscow

Munich

  • 🌍 Munich Airport (Franz Josef Strauß Airport). Officially named after a conservative politician from Bavaria (died 1988) and Germany's second airport. The airport replaced Riem Airport in 1992.  

Oslo

Paris

  • 🌍 Charles de Gaulle Airport. Built to replace Orly, it's France's biggest international hub and the main base of flag carrier Air France  
  • 🌍 Orly Airport. Besides its role as a domestic hub, it also sees several intercontinental flights to French overseas territories and departments and a wide selection of (mainly short-haul) international flights.  

Reykjavík

  • 🌍 Keflavík Airport. Not to be confused with Reykjavik's domestic airport, this airport is Iceland's principal door to the world and sees flights from both sides of the Atlantic.  

Rome

Stockholm

Vienna

  • 🌍 Vienna Airport (Often referred to as Wien-Schwechat in German).  

Zurich

North America
A model DC3 hangs in San Francisco Airport

Atlanta

Boston

Chicago

Dallas and Fort Worth

  • 🌍 Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.  

Denver

  • 🌍 Denver Airport. Moved to its current site "overnight" in 1995 after old Stapleton Airport had grown too small and too close to downtown for modern needs. Famously contains a bunch of "weird" artwork that has given rise to absurd conspiracy theories.  

Detroit

Houston

Las Vegas

Los Angeles

  • 🌍 Los Angeles Airport. LAX, as it is commonly referred to, is often called the airport with the highest "destination traffic", i.e. travelers that intend to visit the area the airport serves instead of boarding a connecting flight.  

Mexico City

  • 🌍 Benito Juárez Airport. Named for Mexico's first president of indigenous descent.  

Miami

Minneapolis and Saint Paul

New York City

  • 🌍 John F. Kennedy Airport. While only the fifth busiest airport in the U.S. by total passenger count, it is the busiest by international passenger count and the only American airport to make the top 20 in that list.  
  • 🌍 Newark Airport.  

Orlando

Philadelphia

Phoenix

San Francisco

Seattle

Toronto

Washington, D.C.

Oceania

Auckland

Brisbane

Melbourne

Perth

Sydney

South America

Buenos Aires

Rio de Janeiro

São Paulo

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