World's Busiest International Airport

[RM]

I've no idea what it would be, but I do know one that isn't.

I just drove by Presidio Lely International Airport (T77) in west
Texas.

It does have a sign, which is how I knew it was an international
airport, a wire fence and a wind sock, but not a whole lot more.
There were two airplanes parked there: a Piper Cub and a Piper Colt.

I would have hopped a flight to London or someplace, but no one seemed
to be around the terminal (a trailer house), so I had to continue on
by car. I still did make it an international trip, though, when I waded
across the Rio Grande a few miles down the road.

[Louis L. Perley III]

"RM" > wrote in message
om...
> I've no idea what it would be, but I do know one that isn't.
>
> I just drove by Presidio Lely International Airport (T77) in west
> Texas.
>
> It does have a sign, which is how I knew it was an international
> airport, a wire fence and a wind sock, but not a whole lot more.
> There were two airplanes parked there: a Piper Cub and a Piper Colt.
>

Being an international airport, doesn't that just mean you can use it as
a port of entry to make the necessary customs declarations?

--
Louis L. Perley III
N46000

[G Farris]

I suppose you need LRA or AOE status to be able to call it "International".
Franklin County in Vermont is another one way up on the list.
http://www.vermontairports.com/highgate.html


By the way - The REAL busiest airport in the world is . . .

CHICAGO O'HARE, with 928,501 movements in 2003.
ATLANTA had the greatest number of passengers (79 million) followed by OHare,
with 70 million.

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).

G Faris

[Morgans]

"G Farris" > wrote > By the way - The REAL busiest airport
in the world is . . .
>
> CHICAGO O'HARE, with 928,501 movements in 2003.
> G Faris

Wrong, for one week per year. Most movements in a week goes to....

Oshkosh!
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Jim in NC


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[Jens Krueger]

G Farris > wrote:

> CHICAGO O'HARE, with 928,501 movements in 2003.
> ATLANTA had the greatest number of passengers (79 million) followed by OHare,
> with 70 million.
>
> 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?

Cheers,
Jens
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[MikeM]

RM wrote:

> I've no idea what it would be, but I do know one that isn't.
>
> I just drove by Presidio Lely International Airport (T77) in west
> Texas.

You'll love this one:

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



I regularly stop at this one:

http://www.airnav.com/airport/7S8

No fuel, no based aircraft, but it is only a 10min walk from
both US and Canadian Customs. You can use it as an AOE either
North or South bound...

MikeM

[Hamish Reid]

In article >,
(Jens Krueger) wrote:

> G Farris > wrote:
>
> > CHICAGO O'HARE, with 928,501 movements in 2003.
> > ATLANTA had the greatest number of passengers (79 million) followed by
> > OHare,
> > with 70 million.
> >
> > 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. There's a set of pages that table the various "busiest"s by cargo,
movements, passengers, etc under the main page. It's presumably pretty
authoritative.

Hamish

[Neil A. Bratney]

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!"

[Dylan Smith]

In article <1Xnvc.4251$wS2.3890@okepread03>, Neil A. Bratney wrote:
> That's great, the runway is "dirt, in poor condition
> ROUGH; DEBRIS FULL LENGTH OF RY; BROKEN BOTTLES & FIREWORKS DEBRIS."

I've been to Interstellar Spaceport, and it's not quite as bad as that,
but it is undeniably rough.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
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"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

[Duck Dog]

On Mon, 31 May 2004 10:01:27 +0000 (UTC), (G Farris)
wrote:

>I suppose you need LRA or AOE status to be able to call it "International".
>Franklin County in Vermont is another one way up on the list.
>http://www.vermontairports.com/highgate.html
>
>
>By the way - The REAL busiest airport in the world is . . .
>
>CHICAGO O'HARE, with 928,501 movements in 2003.
>ATLANTA had the greatest number of passengers (79 million) followed by OHare,
>with 70 million.
>
>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).

For passengers, #3 is Heathrow and #4 is Tokyo/Haneda.

>G Faris

[Jens Krueger]

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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[Jerry Kurata]

Hmmm. Sounds like Burning Man.

"Neil A. Bratney" > wrote in message
news:1Xnvc.4251$wS2.3890@okepread03...
> 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!"
>