Airports

Mega Airports

East Asia:

  • China:
    • PKX: Beijing Daxing
    • PVG: Shanghai Pudong New Satellite Terminal
    • HKG: Hong Kong Airport expansion, 3rd runway and new concourse.
    • CAN: Guangzhou Baiyun Airport expansion (2025)
    • SZX: Shenzhen airport satellite terminal
    • TFU: Chengdu Tianfu
    • Xiamen: new airport
    • Qingdao: new airport
    • Dalian: new airport
  • South Korea:
    • ICN Incheon Airport: Phase 4 to be completed by 2025. Expansion of Terminal 2, 4th runway.

Americas:

  • US:
    • LAX rennovation, people mover, Terminal 0, Terminal 9
    • EWR Terminal One (2022)
    • LGA retrofit (2022)
    • JFK redevelopment
    • SFO redevelopment
    • BUR Burbank airport new terminal. 14-gate, 355,000-square-foot. needed to meet current Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety standards regarding runway distance to buildings
  • Mexico:
    • NLU Felipe Ángeles International Airport: the second airport serving the Mexico City metropolitan area.
  • LIM Lima airport new terminal: 2025

Southeast Asia:

  • Vietnam:
    • Ho Chi Minh City: Long Thanh International Airport (2025)
  • Philippines:
    • New Manila International Airport (2026)
  • Singapore:
    • Changi Airport (SIN) Terminal 5

Middel East:

  • IST: Istanbul New Airport, replacing Atatürk Airport
  • DOH: Doha, concourse D/E expansion.
  • DWC: Al Maktoum International Airport, Emirates' future hub, under development.

Europe:

  • Poland: The Central Communication Port (2032+)

High Elevation Airports

The FAA considers airports with elevations greater than 8,000 feet as “high elevation airports.”

US highest airport:

  • 9,934, KLXV, Lake County Airport
  • 9,070, KTEX, Telluride Regional Airport, Telluride, Colorado
  • 8,380, KAXX, Angel Fire Airport, Angel Fire, New Mexico
  • 7,820, KASE, Aspen/Pitkin County Airport
  • 7,680, KGUC, Gunnison–Crested Butte Regional Airport
  • 7,539, KALS, San Luis Valley Regional Airport, Alamosa County, Colorado
  • 7,284, KLAR, Laramie Regional Airport, Wyoming
  • 7,015, KFLG, Flagstaff, Arizona
  • 6,882, KSBS, Steamboat Springs
  • 6,765, KRKS, Wyoming, in Rock Springs
  • 6,689, KDRO, Durango–La Plata County Airport, Durango, Colorado, US
  • 6,547, KEGE, Eagle County Regional, Gypsum, Colorado

Airports on artificial islands

Japan

  • Kansai International Airport
  • Kitakyushu Airport
  • Kobe Airport
  • Chubu Centrair International Airport
  • Nagasaki Airport

China

  • Hong Kong International Airport (expanding)
  • Macau International Airport
  • Dalian Jinzhouwan International Airport (Under construction)
  • Sanya Hongtangwan International Airport (Under construction)

Turkey

  • OGU Ordu–Giresun Airport: Turkey's first, opened in 2015.
  • RZV Rize–Artvin Airport: Turkey's second, opened in 2022.

Special Airports

  • BGR Bangor, ME: often used as the diversion airport for flights between the U.S. and the Europe. Long runway, 11,440 ft.