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!

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Africa

Johannesburg O.R. Tambo International is Africa's busiest airport

Johannesburg

Asia

Abu Dhabi

Bali

Bangalore

Bangkok

Concourse E of Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport

Beijing

Busan

Delhi

Doha

  • 🌍 Hamad Airport (DOH IATA). Dubai's main rival, its traffic is mostly made up of transit passengers connecting between flights on Emirates' main rival Qatar Airways. 

Dubai

  • 🌍 Dubai Airport (DXB IATA). The world's busiest airport for international traffic, due to its strategic location between east and west. Much of its traffic is made up of flight connections on the Middle East carrier Emirates rather than passengers using Dubai as origin or destination. 

Guangzhou

Hong Kong

Jakarta

Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto & Kobe)

Kuala Lumpur

Manila

Medan

  • 🌍 Kualanamu Airport (KNO IATA). Transit airport linking domestic flights from all over Sumatra to international flights across Asia. (updated Sep 2020)

Mumbai

Check-in counters of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport

Nagoya

Seoul

Shanghai

  • 🌍 Pudong Airport (PVG IATA). China's second busiest airport and the international and intercontinental hub of China Eastern Airlines (their other hub in Shanghai is the older Hongqiao Airport, which is mostly for domestic flights). 

Singapore

Greenery in Terminal 3 of Singapore Changi Airport
  • 🌍 Changi Airport (SIN IATA). A major hub for passengers travelling between Australia and Europe, used as a refuelling stop by British Airways and Qantas. 

Taipei

Tel Aviv

  • 🌍 Ben Gurion Airport (TLV IATA). 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 (AMS IATA). 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 (BCN IATA). 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 the busiest in the world until competition with high speed rail made flights increasingly unattractive. 

Berlin

Copenhagen

Dublin

Frankfurt

Helsinki

  • 🌍 Helsinki Airport (HEL IATA). Historically one of Europe's airports with the most connections to east Asia, as the flights could take the shortcut over the Soviet Union, and later Russia. 

Istanbul

  • 🌍 Istanbul Airport (IST IATA) (Istanbul New Airport). Opened gradually from autumn 2018, it replaces Atatürk Airport which has now closed. 

Lisbon

  • 🌍 Lisbon Airport (LIS IATA). A major hub connecting Europe with former Portuguese colonies in Africa and South America, particularly Brazil. 

London

Terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport

Madrid

Manchester

Milan

Moscow

Munich

  • 🌍 Munich Airport (MUC IATA) (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 (CDG IATA). Built to replace Orly, it's France's biggest international hub and the main base of flag carrier Air France, and a major hub to flights to Francophone Africa 
  • 🌍 Orly Airport (ORY IATA). 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 (KEF IATA). Iceland's principal door to the world, with flights from both sides of the Atlantic. Not to be confused with Reykjavik's domestic airport. 

Rome

Stockholm

Venice

Vienna

Zurich

North America

A model DC3 hangs in San Francisco Airport
International arrival hall of Vancouver International Airport
Concourse B, Chicago O'Hare airport

Atlanta

Boston

Cancun

Charlotte

Chicago

Dallas and Fort Worth

Denver

  • 🌍 Denver Airport (DEN IATA). 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 IATA). Often called the airport with the highest "destination and origin traffic", i.e. travelers that live in, or intend to visit, the area the airport serves instead of boarding a connecting flight. 

Mexico City

Miami

Minneapolis and Saint Paul

Montreal

New York City

Orlando

Panama City

Philadelphia

Phoenix

Salt Lake City

San Francisco

Seattle

Toronto

Vancouver

Washington, D.C.

Oceania

Auckland

Brisbane

Melbourne

Perth

Sydney

South America

Buenos Aires

Rio de Janeiro

São Paulo

Santiago de Chile

See also

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