Source: Airport Council International.

Passenger Traffic at the World’s Largest Airports, 2004

There are 3 major concentrations of airports in the world where international air traffic is articulated according to three giant platforms having an important concentration of air terminals: Eastern United States, Western Europe and Japan. The key airports of these platforms, or rather the airport cities since they count more than one airport, are New York (77.6 million passengers), London (77 millions) and Tokyo (94.7 millions). These poles correspond to the most important financial centers in the world.

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