Jakarta Airport
Number of airports: 683
Each of the larger Indonesian islands has at least one international airport. The biggest Indonesian airport is the Soekarna-Hatta International Airport; the island of Java has five international airports.
Asuncion Airport
Number of airports: 798
Though there are many airports in Paraguay, only 12 of these contain paved runways, and only 2 can receive four-engine commercial planes. The main airport in the country is the Asuncion Airport.
Number of airports: 952
Out of these airports, only 16 of them have paved runways. The biggest airports in Bolivia are the El Alto International Airport in La Paz, and the Viru Viru International Airport in Santa Cruz.
El Dorado International Airport
Number of airports: 992
The most important airport in Columbia is the El Dorado International Airport, located in Bogota. It is the busiest Latin American airport for cargo movement, and third busiest for passenger movement.
Number of airports: 1,130
The most important airport in Argentina is the Ezeiza Airport, located near Buenos Aires, which handles about 70% of the country’s total air traffic.
Number of airports: 1,216
Being the largest country in the world, Russia is also home to over 1,000 airports. The largest airport in Russia is the Domodedovo International Airport, which is outside Moscow. The other regions of Russia, such as Siberia, the Volga area and the Urals, all have a good deal of airports as well.
Number of airports: 1,388
The second biggest country in the world also has over 1,00o airports. The biggest, most busiest airports here located in Canada’s three major cities: Toronto Pearson International Airport, Vancouver International AirportMontreal-Pierre Eliot Trudeau International Airport. and
Guadalajara Airport
Number of airports: 1,744
Mexico is a large country with lots of big cities, small cities and heavily-visited beach towns. Its busiest airports are the Mexico City International Airport, the Cancun International Airport and the Guadalajara International Airport.
Number of airports: 4,000
The biggest Latin American country also has the highest number of Latin American airports in its borders. The most important ones are the Rio de Janiero International Airport (sometimes known as Galaeo-Antonia Carlos Jobim International Airport) and the Sao Paulo Congonhas Airport.
Number of airports: 15, 095
The United States of America has the most airports in the world, by far. New York City has the second biggest airport system in the world (after London), and the main airports are the John F Kennedy International Airport, the LaGuardia Airport and the Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. Los Angeles also has a large complex of airports, including the Los Angeles International Airport. The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the busiest in the world, in terms of passenger traffic. Other than these major centers, all American major cities and most minor cities have airports.
Calling them airports is an understatement. With over fifteen miles of aviation-related commercial properties surrounding some of the largest airfields, these massive urban sprawls are more properly known as aerotropolises. For simplicity’s sake, though, we’ll just call them the world’s most expensive airports.
Currently, the most expensive airport is Hong Kong International Airport, located on Chek Lap Kok island in (surprisingly enough) Hong Kong. With over 47 million passengers in 2007, HKIA is also one of the world’s busiest airports. Passengers may fly in or out via a number of airlines, including Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong Express, Air Hong Kong and many others with “Hong Kong” in their names. For its $20 billion construction, the airport was awarded a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Unfortunately for HKIA, it will soon lose that place.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the new record-breaking aerotropolis is being constructed in Dubai. Dubai World Central International, being constructed south of Dubai near Jebel Ali, will cost $33 billion for its infrastructure alone. The plans call for an airfield that can accommodate the latest superjumbo jets, hotels, shopping malls, two 18-hole golf courses and a residential city that can house 750,000 people. Of course, this sort of project takes a lot of time to complete and DWC is no exception. It isn’t expected to be operational until 2017. By that time, yet another record-breaking airport project may be started.
Other aerotropolises include Brisbane Airport in Australia, Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, Incheon International Airport in South Korea, Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia and at least five within the continental United States.
