3 Charts Showing the World's Largest Megahub Airports
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High demand for domestic travel is what's keeping several U.S. airports at the top of the ranking, even if many passengers have to wait several hours in between flights to reach their destinations.
While the U.S. remains a stronghold for many of the world's largest airport "megahubs" -- or those with the most available connections -- the amount of time travelers wait for connections at airports across the country is often lengthy and inconvenient.
Some 22 of the world's top 50 megahubs (44 percent) are in the U.S. and nine are in the top 10. It's no coincidence the U.S. is dominating the megahub charts given airline consolidation during the past few years, said OAG, an air travel intelligence company, which ranked the world's megahubs for 2016.
OAG's ranking is based on the total number of possible connections between inbound and outbound flights within a six-hour window at world's 100 largest airports (based on departing scheduled seat capacity from September 2015 to September 2016). This is indicated in a connectivity index score in the charts below.
Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) is the largest megahub in t
