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In the United States, all the airports that offer planned passenger services and arrange more than 10,000 passenger embarkments, are categorized as primary airports by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The only state in the United States that does not have any primary airport is Delaware (DE).
Primary airports are located in the following states and regions - Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands.
ROLE is one of the four FAA airport types. This list just incorporates airports assigned as Commercial Service - Primary (P). The FAA again categorizes every primary airport into the following "hub" categories:
- M: Medium Hub that represents between 0.25% - 1% of overall passenger boardings in the U.S.
- L: Big Hub that represents minimum 1% of overall passenger boardings in the U.S.
- N: Non-Hub that represents under 0.05% of overall passenger boardings in the U.S., but over 10,000 yearly boardings
- S: Small Hub that represents between 0.05% - 0.25% of overall passenger boardings in the U.S.
Given below is a list of the busiest airports in the US (in terms of total passengers -2009) that you will find on a detailed USA Airport Map:
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport - Atlanta, Georgia
- O'Hare International Airport - Chicago, Illinois
- Los Angeles International Airport - Los Angeles, California
- Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport - Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
- Denver International Airport - Denver, Colorado
- John F. Kennedy International Airport - Queens, New York
- McCarran International Airport - Las Vegas, Nevada
- George Bush Intercontinental Airport - Houston, Texas
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport - Phoenix, Arizona
- San Francisco International Airport - San Mateo County, California
- Charlotte Douglas International Airport - Charlotte, North Carolina
- Miami International Airport - Miami, Florida
- Orlando International Airport - Orlando, Florida
- Newark Liberty International Airport - Newark, New Jersey
- Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport - Fort Snelling, Minnesota
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport - Detroit, Michigan
- Seattle-Tacoma International Airport - SeaTac, Washington
- Philadelphia International Airport - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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