PARTY at world's eighth busiest airfield

[Montblack]

Runway PARTY (with FREE parking) at Mpls/St Paul International Airport (MSP)
on Saturday 9-24-05

<http://www.mspairport.com/msp/appdocs/headlines/Community_Runway_Event.html>

"The Metropolitan Airports Commission will hold a one-of-a-kind,
family-friendly community event on Minneapolis-St. Paul International
Airport's new runway September 24. MSP: Ready for Takeoff is the public's
only opportunity to get out on Runway 17/35 before it is put into service
for aircraft in late October."

[17/35 takes you over the Mall of America (MOA) heading south]

"The event ends at 5 p.m. September 24 -- and so does your chance to run,
walk, dance, and play directly on the runway. Join us in marking this
important milestone in Minnesota and take advantage of this unique
experience of the world's eighth busiest airfield."


Montblack
I'm all carbo'd up for that 1K family fun-run/walk at 10am.

[Rob]

Montblack wrote:
> [17/35 takes you over the Mall of America (MOA) heading south]

Is THAT what MOA stands for?! Oh Jeez, I had that all misunderstood.
There must be some really big malls down here in the southwest.

-R

[N93332]

"Montblack" > wrote in message
...
> Runway PARTY (with FREE parking) at Mpls/St Paul International Airport
> (MSP)
> on Saturday 9-24-05
>
> <http://www.mspairport.com/msp/appdocs/headlines/Community_Runway_Event.html>

So, it's NOT a Fly-In. :-( Oh well, can't fly in anyways...

-Greg B.
/X

[grubertm]

Sure it's a Fly-in. You just have to be careful in dodging the running,
walking, dancing, and playing people while flaring.. :-D

- Marco

[UltraJohn]

Montblack wrote:

> Runway PARTY (with FREE parking) at Mpls/St Paul International Airport
> (MSP) on Saturday 9-24-05
>
> Montblack
> I'm all carbo'd up for that 1K family fun-run/walk at 10am.

Dang if they made it an 100k run I'd come up for it!
John

[Martin Hotze]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:59:10 -0500, Montblack wrote:

>the world's eighth busiest airfield.

name the first 7 airports, please.
I doubt that it is the eight busiest airfield in the _world_.

#m

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[Bucky]

Martin Hotze wrote:
> I doubt that it is the eight busiest airfield in the _world_.

That's from the article. I'm sure they meant in the U.S. Or maybe they
meant "world" in the same way that the NBA or MLB crown the league
champions as "World Champions".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_busiest_airports_by_passenger_traffic

[Orval Fairbairn]

In article . com>,
"Bucky" > wrote:

> Martin Hotze wrote:
> > I doubt that it is the eight busiest airfield in the _world_.
>
> That's from the article. I'm sure they meant in the U.S. Or maybe they
> meant "world" in the same way that the NBA or MLB crown the league
> champions as "World Champions".
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_busiest_airports_by_passenger_traffic


There are two means of defining "busy":

1. Number of operations and

2. Number of enplaned passengers.

Under criterion #1, some US GA airports would rank among the "10
busiest," with most of the non-US airports well down the list.

[Steven P. McNicoll]

"Martin Hotze" > wrote in message
...
>
> name the first 7 airports, please.
>

Chicago O'Hare International [KORD]
Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International [KATL]
Dallas Fort Worth International [KDFW]
Los Angeles International [KLAX]
Denver International [KDEN]
Phoenix Sky Harbor International [KPHX]
Mc Carran International [KLAS]


>
> I doubt that it is the eight busiest airfield in the _world_.
>

Nevertheless, Minneapolis St. Paul International [KMSP] is the eighth
busiest airport in the world.

[Steven P. McNicoll]

"Bucky" > wrote in message
oups.com...
>
> That's from the article. I'm sure they meant in the U.S.
>

It's the same thing. The eight busiest airports in the world are all in the
US. The busiest airport outside the US is Paris Charles De Gaulle [LFPG].

[Steven P. McNicoll]

"Hotel 179" > wrote in message
...
>
> 1. Atlanta, Hartsfield (ATL) 83,578,906 5.7% Memphis (MEM)
> 3,554,577 4.8%
> 2. Chicago, O'Hare (ORD) 75,373,888 7.1 Hong Kong (HKG)
> 3,132,449 15.7
> 3. London, Heathrow (LHR) 67,343,960 6.1 Tokyo, Narita (NRT)
> 2,373,133 10.1
> 4. Tokyo, Haneda (HND) 62,320,968 -0.9 Anchorage (ANC)
> 2,372,903 13.1
> 5. Los Angeles (LAX) 60,710,830 10.4 Seoul (ICN) 2,133,443
> 15.8
> 6. Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) 59,412,217 11.6 Los Angeles (LAX)
> 1,902,547 5.3
> 7. Frankfurt-Main (FRA) 51,098,271 5.7 Frankfurt-Main (FRA)
> 1,839,084 11.4
> 8. Paris, Charles de Gaulle (CDG) 50,860,561 5.5 Singapore
> (SIN) 1,795,646 10.0
> 9. Amsterdam, Schiphol (AMS) 42,541,180 6.5 Miami (MIA)
> 1,778,897 8.6
> 10. Denver (DEN) 42,393,693 13.0 Louisville (SDF) 1,739,029
> 7.5
> 11. Las Vegas (LAS) 41,436,571 14.3 Taipei (TPE) 1,701,020
> 13.4
> 12. Phoenix, Sky Harbor (PHX) 39,493,519 5.5 New York (JFK)
> 1,683,073 2.7
> 13. Madrid (MAD) 38,525,899 7.5 Chicago, O'Hare (ORD) 1,681,835
> 11.6
> 14. Bangkok (BKK) 37,960,169 25.8 Shanghai (PVG) 1,642,062
> 38.1
> 15. New York (JFK) 37,362,010 17.7 Paris, Charles de Gaulle
> (CDG) 1,637,610 9.4
> 16. Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSP) 36,748,577 10.7 Amsterdam,
> Schiphol (AMS) 1,467,205 8.4
> 17. Hong Kong (HKG) 36,713,000 36.1 London, Heathrow (LHR)
> 1,412,031 8.6
> 18. Houston (IAH) 36,490,828 6.8 Dubai (DXB) 1,169,256 22.2
> 19. Detroit (DTW) 35,199,307 7.8 Bangkok (BKK) 1,058,145
> 11.3
> 20. Beijing (PEK) 34,883,190 43.2 Indianapolis (IND)
> 1,000,262 9.3
> 21. San Francisco (SFO) 33,497,084 14.3 Newark (EWR) 920,104
> 5.0
> 22. Newark (EWR) 31,847,280 8.1 Osaka (KIX) 886,857 11.8
> 23. London, Gatwick (LGW) 31,461,523 4.8 Atlanta, Hartsfield
> (ATL) 864,650 7.9
> 24. Orlando (MCO) 31,110,852 13.9 Tokyo, Haneda (HND) 773,918
> 7.2
> 25. Tokyo, Narita (NRT) 31,106,264 17.2 Dallas/Ft. Worth
> (DFW) 754,764 12.2
> 26. Singapore (SIN) 30,353,565 23.1 Luxembourg (LUX) 712,954
> 8.5
> 27. Miami (MIA) 30,156,727 1.9 Oakland (OAK) 676,210 9.1
> 28. Seattle/Tacoma (SEA) 28,703,352 7.2 Beijing (PEK) 668,654
> 1.0
> 29 Toronto (YYZ) 28,655,526 15.8 Kuala Lumpur (KUL) 664,237
> 12.6
> 30. Philadelphia (PHL) 28,508,510 15.6 Brussels (BRU) 659,090
> 9.1
>
> NOTES: Total passengers enplaned and deplaned, passengers in transit
> counted once. Total cargo loaded and unloaded, freight and mail (in metric
> tons).
> 1. Results are preliminary.
> Source: Airports Council International World Headquarters, Geneva,
> Switzerland. Web: www.airports.org .
>

When pilots think of busy airports they're generally thinking in terms of
aircraft movements, not passengers enplaned.

http://www.airports.org/cda/aci/display/main/aci_content.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-5-54-57_9_2__

[RST Engineering]

JFK didn't even make the hit parade?

Jim



> Chicago O'Hare International [KORD]
> Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International [KATL]
> Dallas Fort Worth International [KDFW]
> Los Angeles International [KLAX]
> Denver International [KDEN]
> Phoenix Sky Harbor International [KPHX]
> Mc Carran International [KLAS]

[George Patterson]

RST Engineering wrote:

> JFK didn't even make the hit parade?

Not in the top 30. JFK handles mostly international traffic. More passengers but
bigger planes and fewer operations. Both LaGuardia and Newark are busier.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

[Steven P. McNicoll]

"RST Engineering" > wrote in message
...
>
> JFK didn't even make the hit parade?
>

JFK comes in at number 32 among the busiest US airports, between PIT and
ORL.