Winglets747
2007-05-15, 12:04 PM
Taken together, JFK, LGA, and EWR account for the most traffic in the U.S. I checked the full statistics and it appears the London airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, City, Stansted) beat NYC out by a hair (difference of 2 million).
WORLD’S BUSIEST AIRPORTS These are the world’s top 10 airports by passenger traffic in 2006, according to Airports Council International: Atlanta (84.8 million, down 1.2 percent from 2005); Chicago O’Hare (76.2 million, down 0.3 percent); London Heathrow (67.5 million, down 0.6 percent) Tokyo Haneda (65.2 million, up 3 percent); Los Angeles International (61 million, down 0.7 percent); Dallas/Fort Worth (60.1 million, up 1.3 percent); Paris Charles De Gaulle (56.8 million, up 5.6 percent); Frankfurt (52.8 million, up 1.1 percent); Beijing (48.5 million, up 18.3 percent); and Denver (47.3 million, up 9.1 percent). Taken together, however, New York’s three airports accounted for by far the largest number of passengers — 103.9 million. Kennedy International had 42.6 million passengers, up 4.2 percent; Newark had 35.5 million, up 7.4 percent; and LaGuardia had 25.8 million, down 0.3 percent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/business/15memo.html
WORLD’S BUSIEST AIRPORTS These are the world’s top 10 airports by passenger traffic in 2006, according to Airports Council International: Atlanta (84.8 million, down 1.2 percent from 2005); Chicago O’Hare (76.2 million, down 0.3 percent); London Heathrow (67.5 million, down 0.6 percent) Tokyo Haneda (65.2 million, up 3 percent); Los Angeles International (61 million, down 0.7 percent); Dallas/Fort Worth (60.1 million, up 1.3 percent); Paris Charles De Gaulle (56.8 million, up 5.6 percent); Frankfurt (52.8 million, up 1.1 percent); Beijing (48.5 million, up 18.3 percent); and Denver (47.3 million, up 9.1 percent). Taken together, however, New York’s three airports accounted for by far the largest number of passengers — 103.9 million. Kennedy International had 42.6 million passengers, up 4.2 percent; Newark had 35.5 million, up 7.4 percent; and LaGuardia had 25.8 million, down 0.3 percent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/business/15memo.html