Five of the world's ten busiest airports are in the US, according to data compiled by Airports Council International (ACI), which showed Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to be comfortably ahead of all rivals with almost 94 million passengers in 2022.
Second was Dallas's Fort Worth on 73.4 million, with Denver next on 69.3 and O'Hare in Chicago on 68.3 million.
Dubai was fifth, the highest-ranked airport outside the US, with just over 66 million passengers. Other non-US hubs to make the top 10 were Istanbul, London Heathrow, Delhi and Paris Charles de Gaulle.
The 10 airports represented 10% of global traffic, which the Montreal-based ACI said neared 7 billion in 2022, a 53.5% year-on-year increase and almost three-quarters of 2019.
The biggest climber was Heathrow, which jumped from 54th in the ACI listings for 2021.
"While US airport hubs were able to recover quicker due to their strong domestic market, we are now witnessing global hubs joining upper ranks—including Dubai, Istanbul, and London Heathrow airport," said ACI World director general Luis Felipe de Oliveira.