Atlanta's airport saw 3,205,694 passengers this February, down from 7,790,620 at the same time last year, according to the airport. Should mask mandate be extended? How long will masks be required on planes? Flight attendants say mandate should be extendedįlight anxiety: As traveler anxiety soars, airports step up mental health assistanceĮarly figures for 2021 also show a stark year-over-year difference in passenger totals. 'In most cases, domestic air travel is beginning a modest rebound while international air travel remains depressed because of ongoing travel restrictions,' the report stated. That decline becomes steeper, 64.6%, when factoring in all airports' passenger traffic, according to the report. Over the course of the pandemic last year, global passenger traffic at the world’s busiest airports decreased by 45.7%. Only Atlanta, Dallas/Fort Worth and Denver made entries for the U.S. Seven of the world's top 10 busiest airports in 2020 were in China, according to the report.

“While we have been proud of our title as busiest in the world, 2020 was an unprecedented year, with unprecedented challenges, impacting travel across the United States, and the globe,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said in a statement.

Passenger count is generally considered the barometer for determining 'world's busiest.' Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport had 42,918,685 passengers in 2020, a decrease of more than 67 million from the previous year. Instead, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China took that honor in 2020 with more than 43 million passengers, according to a preliminary report from Airports Council International released on Thursday. Watch Video: Facial recognition tech being tested for US flightsĪtlanta's airport is no longer the world's busiest airport, marking the first time in 22 years that ATL has not transported the most passengers.

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