( CNN ) It 's probably no surprise to anyone who has flown through Atlanta that the city 's airport is still the busiest passenger airport in the world . Some 94.4 million passengers went through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in 2013 , a decrease of 1.1 % from 2012 , according to Airports Council International 's latest passenger traffic results for 2013 . Beijing Capital International Airport was in second place with 83.7 million passengers in 2013 , an increase of 2.2 % over 2012 . London Heathrow Airport remained in third place with 72.4 million passengers , an increase of 3.3 % , according to ACI , the worldwide association of airports . Tokyo International Airport ( Haneda ) , Chicago O'Hare International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport were in fourth , fifth and sixth places respectively , rankings that remained unchanged from 2012 . Dubai jumped from 10th to seventh place with 66.4 million passengers last year and a 15 % increase in traffic . `` With many major economies remaining in a fragile state , 2013 can best be characterized as a year of unstable recovery for the global economy , '' said Angela Gittens , ACI 's director general , in a Wednesday press statement . `` Despite this challenging operating climate , worldwide traffic surpassed the 6 billion passenger mark in 2013 , '' Gittens said . `` This represents an enormous feat for the airport industry as we commemorate the 100th anniversary of commercial aviation in 2014 . '' Paris dropped from seventh to eighth place , Dallas/Fort Worth was ninth and Jakarta , Indonesia , was in tenth place . # ATL24 : Behind the scenes at the world 's busiest airport . Passenger traffic grew around the world last year , with the world 's airports serving 6.3 billion passengers in 2013 , up 4.6 % from 2012 , according to the report . Atlanta 's airport also ranked first in airplane movements ( takeoffs and landings ) , with 911,000 movements last year . O'Hare came in second with 883,000 movements and LAX was third with 696,000 movements . Rounding out that list were DFW ; Denver ; Beijing ; Charlotte , North Carolina ; Las Vegas ; Houston and Paris . Hong Kong 's airport is still the busiest cargo airport in the world , transporting nearly 4.2 million metric tons of cargo last year . Memphis , Tennessee , home to FedEx , came in second with 4.1 million metric tons . Shanghai was third with 2.9 million metric tons . ( One metric ton is 2,205 pounds . ) The ACI World Airport Traffic Report was based on reports from nearly 2,000 airports in 160 countries worldwide .
The United States is still home to world 's busiest airport . Worldwide air passenger numbers increased to 6.3 billion in 2013 . The top six airports in the world remained the same as last year . Dubai jumped three spots to finish in seventh place .