The World's Busiest Airports

The World's Busiest Airport is right here in the U.S.A. In fact, 5 of the top 10 are red, white and blue.

The Airports Council International, which governs about 1650 airports across the globe, just released the preliminary numbers for 2010.

Here are the Top 10

#1 Atlanta-Hartsfield Airport  handles the most traffic with 89,331,622 passengers

#2 Beijing Airport - 73,891,801 passengers

#3 Chicago's O'Hare Airport - 66,665,390 passengers

#4 London Heathrow: 65,884,143 passengers

#5 Tokyo Narita - 64,069,098 passengers 

#6 Los Angeles - 58,915,100 passengers

#7 Paris Charles de Gaulle - 58,167,062 passengers

#8 Dallas Fort Worth - 56,905,066 passengers

#9 Frankfurt - 53,009,221 passengers

#10 Denver - 52,211,242 passengers

A whopping 4.7 billion passengers traveled by air in 2010.  Thats a 6.3% increase despite the economy, and natural disasters and winter storms that halted travel.