(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 19% 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 29% 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 14% toyko's haneda airport was fourth with nearly 73 million passengers, a 57% 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 66 billion passengers in 2014, an increase of 51% 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 02%, and atlanta's dropped by 47% hong kong's airport is still the busiest cargo airport in the world, transporting more than 44 million metric tons of cargo in 2014 memphis, tennessee, home to fedex, came in second place with 42 million metric tons and shanghai was third with nearly 32 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
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hartsfield jackson in atlanta is again the world's busiest passenger airport . but chicago won the top spot in another key measurement . hong kong kept the title of busiest cargo airport 