AIRPORTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Added on: 6th Jan 2016
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.
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