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#38829. greg9570
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Everyone knows that Chicago O'Hare is the busiest airport in the world. Since so many planes are going in and out of it, why doesn't it have delays across the board as compared to most other airports?
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skypilot024
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O'Hare has three sets of parallel runways laid out
in two triangular areas. All runways are equipped with instrument landing systems with at least two having Cat III limits allowing properly
equipped aircraft to land with as little as 1/8
mile visibility. The runway arrangement allows aircraft to takeoff and land as much into the wind
as possible.
Sep 17 03, 11:29 PM
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lothruin
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Atlanta Hartsfield was the world's busiest passenger airport in 2002, followed by Chicago O'Hare. Heathrow was the busiest outside the US, and third overall. This is based on number of passengers flying into and out of these airports.
I haven't seen any references that say for certain that O'Hare is at this time the largest airport in the world, though I suppose it also depends on what you mean by that. Volume? Surface area? It doesn't have the longest runways.
In any case, I'd guess it has a great ATC team to account for the least number of delays. Besides which, delays are easily as frequently caused by problems at point of origin, incliment weather in the flight path, etc. as they are by problems with the pattern at destination.
Sep 18 03, 12:13 AM
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BelperJon
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I may be wrong but I think O'Hare has the largest number of flights, including freight; Hartsfield handles the largest number of passengers, internal and international; and Heathrow has the largest number of international passengers.
Sep 18 03, 11:08 AM
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