( CNN ) The birthplace of Coca-Cola , `` Gone with the Wind '' and Martin Luther King Jr. is still home to the busiest passenger airport in the world . More than 96 million passengers went through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in 2014 , an increase of 1.9 % over 2013 , according to Airports Council International 's preliminary passenger traffic data , released Thursday . With more than 86 million passengers last year , Beijing Capital International Airport remained in second place and continued to close the gap just a bit more with Atlanta , according to the worldwide association of airports . It saw an increase of 2.9 % over 2013 . ATL24 : 24 hours in the world 's busiest airport . London 's Heathrow Airport continued to hold on to third place for another year , with more than 73 million passengers , an increase of 1.4 % . Toyko 's Haneda Airport was fourth with nearly 73 million passengers , a 5.7 % increase over 2013 . The airports in fifth , sixth and seventh places swapped spots . Los Angeles International Airport moved up from sixth to fifth , Dubai moved up from seventh to sixth , and Chicago O'Hare International Airport dropped from fifth to seventh . There were no changes to Paris Charles de Gaulle ( eighth place ) , Dallas/Fort Worth ( ninth ) and Hong Kong ( 10th ) . Passenger traffic continued to grow around the globe , with the world 's airports serving more than 6.6 billion passengers in 2014 , an increase of 5.1 % over the previous year , according to the report . Though the news was mostly good for Atlanta , the city did lose some bragging rights . Chicago/Atlanta airport rivalry heats up . Chicago O'Hare took the top spot from Atlanta in the number of takeoffs and landings , officially known as aircraft movements . A spokesman for the Atlanta airport says its carriers are adding more aircraft with higher passenger capacity , which means fewer planes . O'Hare took first place with 881,000 movements , followed by Atlanta with 868,359 and Los Angeles with 708,674 . Rounding out that list were Dallas/Fort Worth , Beijing , Denver , Charlotte , Las Vegas , Houston and London . Airport movements in both Chicago and Atlanta actually decreased compared with 2013 . Chicago 's movements dropped by 0.2 % , and Atlanta 's dropped by 4.7 % . Hong Kong 's airport is still the busiest cargo airport in the world , transporting more than 4.4 million metric tons of cargo in 2014 . Memphis , Tennessee , home to FedEx , came in second place with 4.2 million metric tons and Shanghai was third with nearly 3.2 million metric tons . ( One metric ton equals 2,205 pounds . ) Rounding out the top 10 were cargo airports in Incheon , South Korea ; Anchorage , Alaska ; Dubai ; Louisville , Kentucky ; Tokyo ( Narita ) ; Frankfurt , Germany ; and Taipei , Taiwan . The Airports Council International preliminary traffic report was based on data from 1,095 airports worldwide . A final version will be released later in the year .
Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta is again the world 's busiest passenger airport . But Chicago won the top spot in another key measurement . The number of flights arriving and departing each day at O'Hare was up by more than a million passengers, or about 1 percent over last year.