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AMERICA ’ S BUSIEST PASSENGER airports are not necessarily the most important in terms of transporting cargo from A to B . While Hartsfield- Jackson International airport in Atlanta is the runaway leader in terms of passenger throughput , with well over 100 million people passing through every year , it does not appear anywhere in the top 10 busiest air cargo hubs in the country .
Conversely , Memphis International is home to FedEx Express and does not rank among the top passenger airports , not helped by Delta dropping it as a hub airport . In 2015 it saw 3.75 million passengers through its gates , a snip of Hartsfield-Jackson ’ s 100 + million .
The Federal Aviation Administration collates and ranks data to determine how busy airports are in terms of passengers and cargo , the latter measured in pounds of goods .
While the organisation has not released data beyond the end of the 2014 as it is currently compiling 2015 reporting figures , the following airports are currently understood to handle the most amount of cargo :
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DALLAS / FORT WORTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ( DFW ), TEXAS : Handled 3.06 billion pounds of cargo in 2014 , a slight decrease of 0.81 percent year-on-year .
20 December 2016