A model of this text initially appeared in Condé Nast Traveller India.
If your journey calendar is trying even barely formidable, right here’s a helpful issue to maintain in thoughts earlier than reserving your flight: the most well-connected airports in the world. OAG’s Megahubs 2025 rating reveals how properly a world airport has linked you to the remainder of the globe final yr, primarily based on a easy however telling comparability: These distinctive rankings are generated by evaluating the variety of scheduled connections to and from worldwide flights with the variety of locations served from the airport.
At the very high, London‘s Heathrow Airport holds its floor for the second yr in a row, clocking almost 60,000 connections throughout 226 global destinations. Close behind, Istanbul Airport (which was voted by Condé Nast Traveler readers as the best international airport in 2025) takes second place with a staggering 82,733 whole connections, whereas Amsterdam’s Schiphol ranks third, by linking vacationers to 275 locations by way of 66,798 connections. The US continues to dominate the record with heavy hitters like Chicago and Atlanta putting back-to-back in the seventh and eighth rank, whereas Paris Charles de Gaulle closes out the high 10 with 57,017 connections.