Let's see how spreading out the "busy-ness" would total up to one airport.
Washington DC - Dulles/Reagan/hell, even BWI Total 64,874,741 Three airports, 21 MILLLION LESS THAN ATL
Dallas - DFW - Can't have more than 76,436,000 between DFW & Love. Since this list only goes to 30 and
Love isn't on that list, even using San Diego's amount of 17M+ at number 30 added to DFW doesn't beat ATL
Houston - Bush & Hobby - Same thing as DFW, Hobby isn't on the list of 30. So add Bush with the 17+ Mil
of San Diego and Houston would have a max of 57,085,000.
Chicago - ORD & Midway 94,445,000 is 8,550,000 larger than ATL
NYC - Newark, JFK & LaGuardia - 99,436,000 is 13,541,000 larger than ATL but ATL would beat any two NYC
airports together.
So, it takes THREE airports in NYC to exceed one Hartsfield and 2 in Chicago to exceed Hartsfield
but no other multiple airport city in the US comes close. ATL's traffic for 2006 is expected to reach 90 mil for
2006.
2005 North America Preliminary Traffic Report : Total Passengers
Rank Airport Total Passengers
1 Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (ATL) 85,894,947
2 Chicago O'Hare (ORD) 76,766,776
3 Los Angeles (LAX) 61,485,269
4 Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) 59,064,360
5 Las Vegas (LAS) 44,280,190
6 Denver (DEN) 43,307,335
7 Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX) 41,204,071
8 JFK-New York (JFK) 40,584,001
9 Houston (IAH) 39,713,920
10 Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSP) 37,563,664
11 Detroit (DTW) 36,374,906
12 Orlando (MCO) 33,907,396
13 San Francisco (SFO) 33,580,662
14 Newark (EWR) 33,033,569
15 Philadelphia (PHL) 31,502,855
16 Miami (MIA) 31,008,453
17 Toronto Pearson (YYZ) 29,914,925
18 Seattle-Tacoma (SEA) 29,289,009
19 Boston Logan (BOS) 27,088,425
20 Charlotte (CLT) 26,899,261
21 Dulles-Washington (IAD) 26,842,918
22 LaGuardia-New York (LGA) 25,819,091
23 Cincinnati/No. Kentucky (CVG) 22,768,891
24 Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood (FLL) 22,390,082
25 Salt Lake City (SLC) 22,237,936
26 Baltimore/Washington (BWI) 20,187,741
27 Tampa (TPA) 19,045,390
28 Reagan-Washington (DCA) 17,843,772
29 Chicago Midway (MDW) 17,679,121
30 San Diego (SAN) 17,372,521