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Re: busy airports
Posted By: Howard, on host 209.86.36.236
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2001, at 18:58:37
In Reply To: Re: busy airports posted by gabby on Saturday, July 7, 2001, at 16:11:23:

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> > Incidentally, the Hartsfield airport in Atlanta-- if I recall, the busiest airport in the world...
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> That dubious honor goes to Chicago: they have signs saying so all over the place. Perhaps Hartsfield is the busiest according to size?

It's impossible to determine which airport is busiest. Busyness(not to be confused with business) changes from minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day, week to week, month. . . . .
Well, you get the picture. It's like trying to determine which city is largest. Could it be London, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Lenior City, Chicago? With todays fluid populations, flowing in and out of cities it's hard to tell what the population is at any given time. Besides, do you include suburbs? How about anexed areas? How about cities that overflow boundaries, like Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia, or Kansas City, Kansas/Missouri? Or what about a megalopolis like Boston to Washington, DC, where several cites have grown together and you can travel from state to state to state without ever really getting out of town? I guess cities and airports are in the same catagory. Let's file them under "who cares?"
How"making about as much sense as usual"ard