airport stats

[JBinCalgary]

anybody got last years airport passenger statistics

[rds70]

I can't seem to find a comprehensive list, but you can check each airport for statistics.

Denver (DIA) - 2002 total = 35.65 million - 2003 projection = 37.25 million

[rds70]

A few others I found:

ATL 2002 = 76.87 million
LAX 2002 = 65.22 million
SFO 2002 = 34.64 million
SLC 2002 = 18.66 million

[sleepy]

Try this link:

http://www.airports.org/

[Chi-town]

Originally Posted by sleepy

Try this link:

http://www.airports.org/

This data is for 2002 but whatever... here are some top tens:


Number of Passengers (Rank/City/Code/Passengers/Percent Change):

1 ATLANTA (ATL) 76,876,128 1.3
2 CHICAGO (ORD) 66,565,952 (1.3)
3 LONDON (LHR) 63,338,641 4.3
4 TOKYO (HND) 61,079,478 4.1
5 LOS ANGELES (LAX) 56,223,843 (8.7)
6 DALLAS/FT WORTH AIRPORT (DFW) 52,828,573 (4.2)
7 FRANKFURT/MAIN (FRA) 48,450,357 (0.2)
8 PARIS (CDG) 48,350,172 0.7
9 AMSTERDAM (AMS) 40,736,009 3.0
10 DENVER (DEN) 35,651,098 (1.2)


Aircraft Movements (Takeoffs & Landings):

1 CHICAGO (ORD) 922,817 1.2
2 ATLANTA (ATL) 889,966 (0.1)
3 DALLAS/FT WORTH AIRPORT (DFW) 765,109 (2.4)
4 LOS ANGELES (LAX) 645,424 (12.6)
5 PHOENIX (PHX) 545,771 (1.4)
6 PARIS (CDG) 510,098 ( 2.5)
7 MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL (MSP) 507,669 1.2
8 VAN NUYS (VNY) 498,477 9.1
9 LAS VEGAS (LAS) 496,845 0.6
10 DENVER (DEN) 494,834 2.2

[hudkina]

Wow, Detroit dropped from #6 in 2000 with 555,375 to #11 in 2002 with 490,885. And in 2003, it'll probably drop down to #13.

I wonder why it's dropping so fast over these last three years for movements.

Wow, LAX is growing like crazy.

[Chi-town]

Originally Posted by UrbanUpstate

Wow, LAX is growing like crazy.

No, it's not. It's shrinking like crazy.

Numbers in parentheses indicate decreases. So LA's passenger total in 2002 was 8.7% lower than 2001. This is especially notable because 2001 was a bad year for the airline industry because of 9/11.

[Snowbird]

Here are the most recent full year stats for movements in the United States from the FAA:

October 2002 through September 2003

Rank Airport ........................ Total Movements
1) Chicago O'Hare ORD .................... 923578
2) Atlanta Hartsfield ATL .................. 895383
3) Dallas/Fort Worth DFW ................ 769574
4) Los Angeles Int'l. LAX .................. 630755
5) Phoenix Sky Harbor PHX .............. 593515
6) Denver Int'l. DEN ......................... 508156
7) Minneapolis/St.Paul MSP .............. 506808
8 ) Las Vegas McCarran LAS ............. 501612
9) Cincinnati CVG .............................. 496970
10) Detroit Wayne County DTW ........ 491075

There are still a couple of airports that haven't reported their October stats, otherwise these would have been even more recent.

As for more recent passenger numbers, the FAA doesn't keep real close track of that, and the stats that they do have are many months old and fragmented. So the ACI stats from last year on airports.org are the closest we can get.

[DARRELL]

The U.S. Dept of Transportation ranks airports based on # of boardings. I created a thread showing 2002 rankings for all U.S. airports where total boardings exceed 1,000,000.

[chiphile]

Just some bragging that chi people like to do...

O'Hare's peak hours are between 5 am and 11 pm, where most if not all flights occurr. So that's 923,578 movements a year, which if the math is done right..

approx.

3,028 flights per day

168 flights per hour

about 3 movements per minute...

ONE takeoff or landing every 20 seconds.


And that sounds just about right, stand anywhere within the vicinity of O'Hare where you can catch a glimpse of more than one runway, and see the spectacle for yourself... quite a sight, I enjoy it everytime.

Would anyone have a pic of a landing stack? (where you can see 5 or so planes in a single file line coming in to land) They make great pictures during the evening when you can see their lights, I can't find anything good on airliners.net

[Chicago103]

Originally Posted by Chi-town

8 VAN NUYS (VNY) 498,477 9.1

Is Van Nuys in LA even a commercial airport?

[Snowbird]

^^^ No. General aviation only.

[urbanflyer]

Van Nuys is the busiest general aviation field in the world.

And a note on Tokyo's ranking - that's not the international airport, Narita. Those numbers are comprised entirely of Haneda, Tokyo's domestic facility.

[Chi-town]

You really have to use both rankings, IMO.

On the one hand, judging by movements alone is a bad idea because airports like Van Nuys, which are very busy with small aircraft and private planes, rank highly, even though they're not "major" airports in the sense of being important. On the other hand, judging by passengers alone is a bad idea because it disregards the massive amounts of air freight that pass through airports. If an airport like O'Hare didn't have that kind of drain on its airspace, it would likely be able to handle more passengers at lower cost. In addition, it's biased towards coastal cities where more long haul (read: big planes) flights originate, and against stopover airports & hubs which form just as important a part of the air travel network.

Fundamentally speaking, both fit the definition of "business". In terms of how crowded the terminals are, and how many people pass through an airport in a given day, passenger numbers are the determining factor. In terms of the amount of activity at the airport, how busy the guys in the tower are, and just how much stuff is going on, takeoffs & landings are the important factor.

For all intents as purposes, I consider ATL and ORD "tied" as the busiest airports in the world.