List of the busiest airports in Europe
This list of the largest airports in Europe includes the 30 European airports, who in 2013 carried the most passengers. A passenger is a person who lands or takes off umsteigt at an airport. Connecting passengers are passengers who land in one day at an airport and depart again; they are counted twice. As European airports include all airports situated on the territory of 47 countries that are members of the Euro Europe is.
By far the largest European airport is London Heathrow Airport with over 72 million passengers in 2013. Together with five other airports ( Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City, Southend ) makes London the world's largest airport system with 139 million passengers each year before the New York airports (107 million passengers ).
The data for the ranking based on publications of the Airports Council International, the International Association of airports.