Exploring the Regional Structure of the Worldwide Air Traffic and Route Networks
Table 7
The internal strength of an airport is determined by the number of flights within its dominant local component.
Large local component
Airport
City
Country
Internal strength
Local rank
Unweighted local rank
North and Central America-Caribbean
Hartsfield J Atlanta
Atlanta
United States
115410
1
1
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
United States
111415
2
11
Chicago O’Hare
Chicago
United States
107554
3
3
Dallas Fort Worth
Dallas-Fort Worth
United States
104321
4
2
Ronald Reagan Washington
Washington
United States
87953
5
19
Europe
Dublin
Dublin
Ireland
47105
1
8
Barcelona
Barcelona
Spain
45408
2
4
Charles de Gaulle
Paris
France
41216
3
7
John F Kennedy
New York
United States
38697
4
15
Amsterdam Schiphol
Amsterdam
Netherlands
38065
5
1
East and Southeast Asia
Beijing Capital
Beijing
China
41320
1
1
Singapore Changi
Singapore
Singapore
35556
2
12
Shanghai Pudong
Shanghai
China
33043
3
3
Guangzhou Baiyun
Guangzhou
China
32318
4
2
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
29712
5
8
Africa-Middle East-Southern Asia
Indira Gandhi
Delhi
India
21874
1
3
Chhatrapati Shivaji
Mumbai
India
16704
2
4
Kempegowda
Bangalore
India
11860
3
17
King Abdulaziz
Jeddah
Saudi Arabia
11829
4
2
Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt
Germany
11778
5
4
South America
Tancredo Neves
Belo Horizonte
Brazil
7745
1
7
G G A F Montoro
Sao Paulo
Brazil
7706
2
1
El Dorado
Bogota
Colombia
7588
3
2
Rio G-T Jobim
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
6553
4
6
Presidente J Kubitschek
Brasilia
Brazil
5366
5
5
The local rank of an airport is determined by its internal strength, ranked in descending order within its local component. The cumulative fraction of connected airports indicates the proportion of airports that the top x local hubs can access within their respective local components.
