The main international airport is Auckland Airport, which handled about 11 million passengers in 2005.

The second largest airport, Geneva Cointrin, handled 10. 8 million passengers and the third largest Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Airport 4. 3 million passengers, both airports being shared with France.

In 2010, United Airlines maintained its East Coast hub at Dulles and handled 56. 7 % of scheduled air carrier passengers at the airport.

In 2010, the airport handled 15, 411, 952 passengers, 5 % less than in 2009.

In 2011 the airport was ranked 9th in terms of transported passengers and aircraft operations, and 2nd in terms of cargo handled in Brazil, placing it amongst the busiest airports in the country.

In 2011, Ben Gurion Airport handled 13 million passengers, making it the second-busiest airport in the far Eastern Mediterranean ( behind Antalya Airport and tied with Cairo International Airport ).

For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2012, the airport handled 28, 799, 911 passengers.

In 2008, the airport handled 8, 288, 506 passengers and 98, 733 aircraft movements.

In 2009, the airport handled 8, 786, 973 passengers and 104, 966 aircraft movements, which although small, was one of the fastest increases in the Americas.

Between January and November 2010 the airport handled 9, 361, 846 passengers and by the end of 2010 the airport reached 10, 278, 493 passengers .. During the year 2011 the airport served 11, 904, 553 passengers, growing over 16 % when compared to the previous year.

In fiscal year 2010, the airport handled 8. 82 million departing passengers.

The airport also handled more international cargo than any other airport in the United States.

In 1977, the airport handled over 5 million passengers annually.

During 2006, the airport handled 5 million passengers and 220, 000 tonnes of cargo.

The airport has seen over 402 million passengers at an average annual growth rate of 15. 5 per cent, and handled over 3. 87 million aircraft at an average annual growth rate of 12. 4 per cent.

During 2011, the airport handled a total of 21, 106, 292 passengers and 246, 157 aircraft movements, representing a respective 7. 2 % and 0. 0 % increase compared to 2010.

The airport handled 34 flights — third highest total of flight that landed at a Canadian airport involved in the operation, behind Halifax and Gander — carrying 8, 500 passengers — more passengers than any other Canadian airport — from Asia to destinations on the United States West Coast and points beyond.

The airport handled of cargo in 2011.

In 2007, the airport handled 5, 920, 573 passengers and 91, 043 aircraft movements, placing it 5th busiest airport in Brazil in terms of passengers.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest airport as measured by passenger traffic and aircraft traffic, offers air service to over 150 U. S. destinations and more than 80 international destinations in 52 countries, with over 2, 700 arrivals and departures daily.

The city of Freeport, located inside the Triangle, operates a major shipyard and an airport that handles 50, 000 flights annually and is visited by over a million tourists a year.

The anti-French sentiment, peaking in early 2003, spilled over onto airports when 1, 500 French nationals were trapped in Abidjan's airport by an anti-French mob.

* Copenhagen Airport ( CPH ), Scandinavia's busiest passenger airport located at Kastrup to the south-east of Copenhagen city and handling over 21 million passengers a year.

The former, located in Roissy near Paris, is the fifth busiest airport in the world with 60 million passenger movements in 2008, and France's primary international airport, serving over 100 airlines.

In 1946, the R. A. F handed over the Plaisance airport to the Mauritian authorities.

The guerrillas redirected the plane towards Formosa province, where they took over the provincial airport.

Clemens has attracted controversy over the years for his outspoken comments, such as his complaints about having to carry his own luggage through an airport and his criticism of Fenway Park for being a subpar facility.

Examples of risk sources are: stakeholders of a project, employees of a company or the weather over an airport.

As a result, there will be a pause in negotiations over the St Helena airport contract ".

On 25 November 1981 a force of mercenaries led by " Mad " Mike Hoare attempted to take over the islands, but were discovered at the airport.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey changed the name of Newark's airport from Newark International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport and a flag now flies over Teminal A's Gate A17.

Washington Dulles Airport is the largest airport in the Washington Metropolitan Area and is one of the nation's busiest airports with over 23 million passengers a year.

* November 25 – November 26 – A group of mercenaries led by Mike Hoare take over Mahe airport in the Seychelles in a coup attempt.

The airport, operated by the South Jersey Transportation Authority on land leased by the FAA, would be turned over to the Port Authority in a similar manner to the takeover of Stewart Airport.

These joined two other air stations already operating on Bermuda, the pre-war civil airport on Darrell's Island, which had been taken over by the RAF, and the Fleet Air Arm's Royal Naval Air Station, HMS Malabar, on Boaz Island.

The satellite city of El Alto, in which the airport is located, is spread over a broad area to the west of the canyon, on the Altiplano.

The airport is designed to be upgraded over the ensuing years in order to accommodate the increase in air travel, and its upgrades are planned in a six-phase framework.

In 1941 the airport was taken over by the Brazilian Air Force and renamed Santa Cruz Air Force Base.

In December 2011 TMZ reported that Jesse Ventura was pulled over for tailgating another vehicle in the San Fernando Valley while on his way to the airport and that the police officers who pulled him over let him go with a warning.

The civil airport, a flying boat station on Darrell's Island, was taken over by the RAF at the start of the war, and used by two commands.

Her real-life coming out was echoed in the sitcom Ellen in " The Puppy Episode " in which the eponymous character Ellen Morgan played by DeGeneres outs herself over the airport public address system.