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World’s Most Improved Airports 2026

King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh, is named the World's Most Improved Airport in 2026, with Fukuoka Airport ranked 2nd and Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in 3rd position



The World's Most Improved Airport award reflects an airport’s Quality improvement across the whole Airport Awards programme. This analyses an airport’s change within the global rating, and the airport performance improvements in many of the award categories to identify the Most Improved airports over the last 12 months.

The World's Most Improved Airports 2026

1

Riyadh

2

Fukuoka

3

Taiwan Taoyuan

4

Abu Dhabi

5

Jeddah

6

Kumamoto

7

Punta Cana

8

Rome Ciampino

9

Newark

10

Shenzhen Bao'an

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