2021-04-24 07:10:49 GMT2021-04-24 15:10:49(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
OTTAWA, April 23 (Xinhua) -- China's Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou has overtaken Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport as the world's busiest hub in 2020, an international trade group said Thursday.
With nearly 43.77 million passengers through 2020 at Baiyun airport, which is located in Guangzhou, south China, the Chinese airport came to top the list of world's busiest hubs, moving up from the 11th place in 2019, the Airports Council International (ACI) said in a statement.
Hartsfield-Jackson, the U.S. airport that had been at the top of the list for more than two decades, has slipped to the second place, with about 42.92 million passengers through the year.