Dallas Fort Worth Airport

A Silk Way West Airlines Boeing 747-8 operating a cargo flight from Mexico City to Houston ended up approaching Dallas Fort Worth at 5,000 feet with critically low fuel. Despite being told they could not reach Houston, the pilots requested to continue, prompting a Houston controller to declare an emergency and divert the aircraft.

The latest 2025 aviation capacity data confirms that Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) remains the busiest airport in the country, offering 63,100,437 scheduled seats this year.