World's Busiest International Airport

Hamish Reid wrote:

To find a non-US airport on the list, you have to go down to position #6,
where Paris' Charles de Gaulle shows 515,000 movements (about half that of
O'Hare).

Do you have a source for that? Preferrably online?

Check out http://www.airports.org/, the Aiports Council International
site.

Thanks for that link. Quite interesting. Especially if you you look at
the passenger count for London. Heathrow and Gatwick combined account
for 93 Million PAX for 2003, that's a whopping 14 Million more than the
busiest american airport, Atlanta with 79 Mill. And that's not even
including London-Stanstead and London-City... Didn't know that London
was THAT busy... :-)

As for the movements (12 out of the top 15 are US), that's because the
bigger Airports especially in Europe don't like "little" planes, so most
of the private planes, cargo feeders and little Commuters (i.e.
TwinCessnas and the likes) are kept away by the requirements of slots
and very expensive landing fees.

Anyways, interesting reading.

Cheers,
jens
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Hmmm. Sounds like Burning Man.

"Neil A. Bratney" wrote in message
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MikeM wrote:


You'll love this one:

http://www.airnav.com/airport/48U


That's great, the runway is "dirt, in poor condition
ROUGH; DEBRIS FULL LENGTH OF RY; BROKEN BOTTLES & FIREWORKS DEBRIS."

Everything I could expect from a Intergalactic Spacport!"