World's largest airport?

[IslandBoy77]

I may have missed this story earlier, but came across this today:

http://nz.totaltravel.yahoo.com/news-opini...argest-airport/

So, bigger than Schiphol?

[Ian Warren]

Impressive the people numbers that move through places like this , that's how they get the figures , now i wonder what the largest airport in area is , Dallas Fort Worth would be in for starters .

[deaneb]

Stats are a few years old but here you go:

Biggest and Busiest Airports in the World

In terms of physical size, the biggest/largest airports in the world are:

• King Fahd International Airport in Saudi Arabia which is the largest by area and is 780 km2 and is bigger than the neighbouring country of Bahrain!
• Denver International Airport is 137.25 km2 with six runways.

The Dubai World Central International Airport is currently under construction and due to be fully operational by 2017. It will have 6 x 4.5km long runways, underground parking for 100,000 cars, capacity for 4 planes to land at the same time, 16 cargo terminals capable of handling 12 million tonnes per year and the airport will be able to handle over 120 million passengers per year - which is 30% more than Atlanta - the busiest airport in the world.


Which is the world's busiest airport?
It may seem like a question with a simple answer, but many of the worlds big airports claim to be the busiest under different criteria. Basing "busiest" as the most number of passengers, the top 5 busiest airports in the world are:

1. Atlanta Airport in USA carries the largest number of passengers and the most arrivals and departures. Almost 75 million passengers used in in 2007.
2. London Heathrow in the UK carries the most international passengers and 67.5 million passengers used it in 2007.
3. Chicago O'Hare Airport in the USA carried over 64 million passengers in 2007.
4. Tokyo Airport in Japan carried over 55 million passengers in 2007.
5. Los Angeles Airport carried almost 52 million passengers in 2007.

[Ian Warren]

Posting Deane An airport the size of a country .. , OK .. any chance of marking out the plane spotters spots