Placecast™ Airport Enplanements
Airport Enplanements
Motionworks Placecast™ provides visits and enplanements at airport since 2019. These insights are produced with the Motionworks Population Intelligence Platform. Placecast™ is used for investigating visitation trends at locations through time. The following document provides an overview of the validation of Motionworks Airport Enplanements. Motionworks measures visitation and enplanements at 303 airports. Airport visitation and enplanement estimates are scaled to BTS enplanements (BTS | Transtats Airports ). The figure below indicates the distribution of all Motionworks airports across the United States.
Airport Stats
| Top 25 Airports by BTS Enplanements | BTS Passenger Rank | Motionworks Monthly Passengers(Mar 2026) | Motionworks Monthly Passengers(Oct 2025) | BTS Monthly Passengers(Oct 2025) | Difference Ratio (%) | Motionworks Monthly Passengers(Mar 2025) | BTS Monthly Passengers(Mar 2025) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hartsfield- Jackson Atlanta International Airport | 1 / 303 | 9,038,403 | 9,624,439 | 9,048,858 | 6.4% | 8,021,399 | 8,763,206 |
| Chicago O'Hare International Airport | 2 / 303 | 7,636,041 | 7,957,583 | 7,557,560 | 5.3% | 5,421,091 | 6,415,329 |
| Dallas- Fort Worth International Airport | 3 / 303 | 7,095,454 | 7,867,511 | 7,193,223 | 9.4% | 6,373,804 | 7,028,924 |
| Denver International Airport | 4 / 303 | 7,208,668 | 7,679,798 | 7,114,028 | 8.0% | 6,033,472 | 6,607,679 |
| Los Angeles International Airport | 5 / 303 | 6,082,983 | 6,950,421 | 6,087,282 | 14.2% | 5,385,936 | 5,989,584 |
| John F Kennedy International Airport | 6 / 303 | 5,206,503 | 5,786,842 | 5,022,784 | 15.2% | 4,430,170 | 4,826,800 |
| Harry Reid International Airport | 7 / 303 | 4,574,186 | 4,821,597 | 4,719,102 | 2.2% | 4,304,394 | 4,666,550 |
| Orlando International Airport | 8 / 303 | 4,355,864 | 4,825,631 | 4,614,942 | 4.6% | 4,929,708 | 5,166,777 |
| San Francisco International Airport | 9 / 303 | 4,543,412 | 5,014,982 | 4,559,079 | 10.0% | 3,742,747 | 4,116,648 |
| Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport | 10 / 303 | 4,098,261 | 4,392,815 | 4,466,935 | -1.7% | 4,303,203 | 4,924,054 |
| Charlotte Douglas International Airport | 11 / 303 | 4,411,030 | 4,782,160 | 4,462,676 | 7.2% | 4,178,624 | 4,584,819 |
| Seattle - Tacoma International Airport | 12 / 303 | 4,424,201 | 5,165,038 | 4,113,744 | 25.6% | 3,541,283 | 3,883,561 |
| Newark Liberty International Airport | 13 / 303 | 4,052,462 | 4,032,001 | 4,035,545 | -0.1% | 3,645,085 | 4,008,282 |
| George Bush Intercontinental Airport | 14 / 303 | 3,874,306 | 4,373,885 | 3,949,943 | 10.7% | 3,556,658 | 3,915,987 |
| Miami International Airport | 15 / 303 | 3,805,125 | 4,564,432 | 3,926,364 | 16.3% | 4,625,253 | 4,964,043 |
| General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport | 16 / 303 | 3,761,180 | 3,981,841 | 3,806,433 | 4.6% | 2,972,912 | 3,469,619 |
| Minneapolis - St Paul International/ Wold - Chamberlain Airport | 17 / 303 | 2,970,354 | 3,440,444 | 2,980,516 | 15.4% | 2,668,507 | 3,138,561 |
| Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport | 18 / 303 | 2,876,707 | 3,119,546 | 2,902,306 | 7.5% | 2,388,351 | 2,765,012 |
| Laguardia Airport | 19 / 303 | 2,894,370 | 2,970,061 | 2,892,984 | 2.7% | 2,393,323 | 2,689,682 |
| Philadelphia International Airport | 20 / 303 | 2,670,602 | 2,876,679 | 2,696,070 | 6.7% | 2,013,494 | 2,303,188 |
| Nashville International Airport | 21 / 303 | 2,386,957 | 2,393,811 | 2,536,517 | -5.6% | 1,627,528 | 2,008,624 |
| San Diego International Airport | 22 / 303 | 2,247,437 | 2,386,037 | 2,305,801 | 3.5% | 1,820,157 | 2,002,508 |
| Salt Lake City International Airport | 23 / 303 | 2,321,902 | 2,458,777 | 2,302,270 | 6.8% | 2,248,001 | 2,387,306 |
| Fort Lauderdale/ Hollywood International Airport | 24 / 303 | 2,392,756 | 2,574,180 | 2,282,002 | 12.8% | 2,942,480 | 3,137,126 |
| Washington Dulles International Airport | 25 / 303 | 2,328,966 | 2,751,478 | 2,275,451 | 20.9% | 1,751,990 | 2,169,421 |