AIRPORTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

MELBOURNE AIRPORT

Skytrax recently awarded Melbourne Airport for having the best airport

hotel in the Australia/Pacific region at the World Airport Awards.

It was ranked the forty-third best airport in 2012 and climbed to

twenty-fifth position this year. Additionally, it reached thirty million

passengers for the first time in 2013.

R. TAMBO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

R. Tambo International Airport is a major international airport in

Kempton Park, South Africa, near Johannesburg. It serves as the

primary airport for domestic and international travel to and from

South Africa and is Africa’s busiest airport, with a capacity to handle

up to twenty-eight million passengers annually with nonstop

flights to all continents except Antarctica.

COLOGNE BONN  

Cologne Bonn Airport is the international airport of Germany’s

fourth-largest city, Cologne, and also serves the former German

capital of Bonn. With close to nine million passengers per year, it is

the seventh-largest passenger airport in Germany and the

second largest in terms of cargo operations. As of March 2015,

Cologne Bonn features flights to 115 destinations in thirty-five countries.

It was christened after Konrad Adenauer, the first post-war chancellor.

HAMAD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT     

Hamad International is the airport for Doha, the capital city of Qatar,

replacing the former Doha International Airport. Formerly known as

New Doha International Airport (NDIA), Hamad International opened

last year with a ceremonial flight by Qatar Airways.

SYDNEY AIRPORT 

Sydney Airport is both the longest continuously operated commercial

Airport, the oldest commercial international airport in the world and

the busiest airport in Australia, handling about thirty-five million

passengers per year.

BRISBANE AIRPORT            

Brisbane Airport is the primary international airport serving Brisbane

and southeast Queensland. It is the third-busiest Australian airport

by aircraft movements. The airport serves twenty-six airlines flying to

forty-two domestic and twenty-eight international destinations, leading

to more than 21.8 million passengers traveling through the

airport in 2013.

KUALA LUMPUR INTERNATIONAL

Kuala Lumpur International Airport is Malaysia’s main international

airport and one of the major airports of Southeast Asia. Built at an

astonishing cost of $3.5 billion in the Sepang district of Selangor, it

is the largest and busiest airport in Malaysia. In 2014, it handled

nearly forty-nine million passengers and 753,899 tons of cargo.

It is the world’s twentieth-busiest airport by total passenger traffic,

thirteenth busiest by international passenger traffic and

twenty-eighth busiest by cargo traffic.

HELSINKI-VANTAA

Helsinki-Vantaa Airport is located about nineteen kilometres north

of the capital of Finland. The airport hosts over 12.8 million passengers

each year and is the fourth-busiest Nordic airport. The airport is

divided into two terminals and linked by an internal pedestrian connection.

Over fifty airlines have flights from North America, Europe, and Asia.

TAIWAN TAOYUAN

Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport is located in Dayuan, Taiwan,

fifty kilometres from the capital of Taipei. The airport is in the

top thirty busiest airports in Asia and hosts over twenty-five million

passengers each year. Over thirty-five airlines serve the airport with

flights throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.