More passengers than ever are jetting off from Gatwick, the second busiest airport in the UK.
Latest igures show Gatwick, had a 3.7% increase in passengers, to 14.6 million, from January to June 2000.
This puts the West Sussex airport in 26th place in the world list.
Heathrow came fourth in the list, compiled by Airline Business magazine, with 30.8 million passengers in the first half of this year.
This figure is up 11.5% up on its January-June 1999 total and pushes the London airport ahead of the Dallas/Fort Worth airport in the United States.
The busiest airport in the world was named as Atlanta's Hartsfield with more than 40 million passengers, with Chicago's O'Hare second with 35.6 million and Los Angeles International third with 33.2 million.
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