30 Busiest Airports in the World

[ridgeman]

Forbes magazine has published an article about the 30 busiest airports in the world. (No Edmonton was not on the list, in fact the only Canadian city to make it was Toronto at 31 million passengers) The busiest is Atlanta at 84 million. Interesting read.

[davidnorwoodink]

You can see the 2006 statistics for the world's 30 busiest airports here, at Wikipedia (along with previous years' as well):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%2...senger_traffic

[kcantor]

Originally Posted by davidnorwoodink

You can see the 2006 statistics for the world's 30 busiest airports here, at Wikipedia (along with previous years' as well):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%2...senger_traffic

At 30,972,566, Toronto's Pearson 2006 traffic was up 9% over her 2001 traffic of 28,042,692 (a number that fell to under 26,000,000 in 2002 and under 25,000,000 in 2003 in the post 9/11 world).

Calgary International's traffic grew from 7,794,519 to 11,279,080 between 2001 and 2006 or 45%. Their 2006 year over year increase was 11% and their 2007 year to date for the first two months was up another 11% (to 1,842,987 according to http://www.calgaryairport.com/fts/getfile.cfm?FID=8450 ).

Edmonton International's traffic grew from 3,940,416 to 5,211,911 between 2001 and 2006 or 32%. Their 2006 year over year increase was 20% and their 2007 year to date for the first two months is up another 18% over 2006 (to 927,797 according to http://edmontonairports.com/bins/con...?cid=13-68-373 )