The final figures for air passenger traffic in 2019 at the world's busiest airports are now available and are very good.
Unfortunately, however, the destruction of global air travel by the coronavirus pandemic means that traffic numbers are unlikely to return to those levels until 2024. This conclusion was reached by Airports Council International, the airport trade association that compiles this data. .
Here is a list of the busiest airports in the world and how far they have fallen.