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Originally Posted by STrek777
It is important to note that MIA, JFK, EWR, and ORD have these impressive number of international passengers due to many multiple carriers in those cities. Where as in ATL there is really only Delta, Korean, Air France, and British Airways. Also the other airports have multiple domestic legacy carriers launching international flights from the same airport. Whereas in ATL Delta is the only domestic legacy carrier with international flights. It never ceases to amaze me just how big a footprint Delta has in ATL.
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Actually, these numbers are based entirely on domestic airlines only. The entire article is wrong. I e-mailed the author about it, and they "corrected" the article, but it still reads very poorly.
When you add international airlines into the mix, it is a very different story:
2006 International traffic for combined domestic and international airlines:
1) JFK - 20.0M
2) LA - 16.9M
3) Miami - 14.7M
4) O'Hare - 11.6M
5) Newark - 10.2M
6) San Francisco - 8.4M
7) Atlanta - 8.1M
8) Houston - 7.4M
9) Dallas - 5.7M
10) DC/Dulles - 5.2M
11) Honolulu - 4.1M
12) Boston - 4.0M
13) Philadelphia 4.0M
14) Detroit - 2.9M
15) Seattle - 2.5M
16) Ft. Lauderdale - 2.4M
17) Las Vegas - 2.2M
18) Orlando - 2.1M
19) Charlotte - 2.0M
20) Denver - 1.9M
21) Phoenix - 1.7M
22) Minneapolis - 1.6M
23) LaGuardia - 1.3M
24) Sanford, Florida - 1.0M
25) Cincinnati - 0.9M
http://www.miami-airport.com/html/pa..._rankings.html
International airlines have huge footprints at JFK, MIA, and LAX. Qantas, for example, has as many as six daily flights to Los Angeles; Avianca operates seven daily flights to Miami; British Airways' has eight daily flights to JFK. At MIA and JFK, believe it or not, British Airways carriers more passengers than United does!