North America's 10 Busiest Airports · 2025 Passenger Traffic

U.S. Market · Transport and Gateways, 2025 (ACI)

North America's 10 Busiest Airports · One Texas Entry

Atlanta held first place again in 2025 with 106.3 million passengers, ahead of Dallas-Fort Worth (85.7M) and Chicago O'Hare (84.9M). The order moved underneath: O'Hare grew 6.0% and San Francisco 4.3%, while Las Vegas fell 5.9% and Los Angeles 3.8%. Worldwide, airports handled 9.8 billion passengers, up 3.7% on 2024. Only one of the ten is in Texas.

Horizontal bar chart of the ten busiest airports in North America by total passengers in 2025, from Atlanta at 106.3 million down to San Francisco at 54.5 million, each with its year-on-year change. Dallas-Fort Worth, the only Texas airport on the list, is highlighted in amber at 85.7 million, down 2.5 percent. — The ten busiest airports in North America by total passengers, 2025, with the change on 2024. Texas entry in amber. Chart: Cube-Age.

Why this matters for B2B

Passenger rank is a rough map of where business travel lands, and passenger aircraft carry freight in the hold on the same routes. Houston is not on this list, which is worth saying plainly: a buyer's gateway is not the same thing as a domestic hub. What matters to our buyers is the Latin American network, not the national passenger count — see IAH as a gateway. Read alongside America's 30 largest cities and our U.S. market hub.

Source: Airports Council International, world airport traffic ranking for 2025. Chart built by Cube-Age from the published ranking; the original infographic was not reproduced.