A380900 From France, joined Dec 2003, 1011 posts, RR: 1 Posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 4111 times:
I was wondering...
What are the airports with the highest passenger yearly with one, two, three... runways?
What is the maximum passengers/year you can obser on a runway?
In theory: 800 passengers every minute or so 420 million per year!
Homer71 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 2209 posts, RR: 17 Reply 1, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 4093 times:
For a single runway, I'm thinking SAN (18 million/year)...
[Edited 2009-11-17 18:22:32 by homer71]
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Flyiguy From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 837 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 4086 times:
My guess for the highest pax for 1 runway would be SAN...but thats just a guess...
Just my 0.02
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BMI727 From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 14356 posts, RR: 26 Reply 3, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 4065 times:
SAN is the busiest single runway airport out there. As far as those with two runways, I would think that LHR and NRT are definitely in the team picture.
Why do Aerospace Engineering students have to turn things in on time?
ElmoTheHobo From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 1515 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 4034 times:
Actually, the honor goes to London's Gatwick.
Gatwick has two runways, however only one runway is ever used at a time. The shorter runway is only used when the longer runway is out of service, be it for construction or a plane being stuck on the runway.
So while 'officially' it has two runways, it only has one working runway. Gatwick sees double San Diego's traffic, some 35 million passengers per year.
MinEng From Canada, joined Nov 2009, 6 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 3986 times:
I had always heard it was Gatwick, but I knew there are two runways, so I was confused how it was the busiest "single runway" airport. Thanks to ElmoTheHobo for explaining!
Ewrw4co From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 48 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 3849 times:
DeltAirlines From United States of America, joined May 1999, 8772 posts, RR: 13 Reply 10, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 3728 times:
They've been using 13 a lot more lately - primarily for CoCo arrivals, but still a good bit - I've been seeing Dashes consistently buzz the train station in my several trips standing on that NJ Transit platform over the past month.
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21498 posts, RR: 24 Reply 11, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 3656 times:
Quoting ElmoTheHobo (Reply 4): Actually, the honor goes to London's Gatwick.
In Europe, after LGW, the busiest single-runway airports appear to be the following, based on 2008 passenger traffic (if Wikipedia is correct):.
London Stansted - 22.4 million
Malaga - 12.8 million
Geneva - 11.5 million
London Luton - 10.2 million
Stuttgart - 9.9 million
Alicante - 9.6 million
Until it closed in 1998, Hong Kong Kai Tak may have been the world's busest single-runway airport. It handled 29.5 million passengers in 1996. Not sure what LGW's numbers were then.
Lightsaber From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 10696 posts, RR: 100 Reply 12, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 3600 times:
For two runways, the obvious winner is LHR.
For three runways, it looks to be PEK.
For Four runways, is it CDG? (Note, I'm not certain on this, as it looks like they have passed LAX.)
Oh yea, for 5 runways the winner is ATL.
What is ORD 'official runway number' now? They've decommissioned a few of the crosswind... but I'm not certain how many 'count' at ORD. In my opinion at least 5 (hence why I list ATL).
Finish the runway re-alignment so its easy to say 7 runways at ORD!
Quoting Homer71 (Reply 1): For a single runway, I'm thinking SAN (18 million/year)...
Quoting ElmoTheHobo (Reply 4): Actually, the honor goes to London's Gatwick.
I would concur its LGW, but that is a split call as it has the 2nd physical runway...
Addd From United States of America, joined May 2007, 397 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 3582 times:
So, it goes (for single-runway airports):
London Stansted - 22.4 million
San Diego - 18.0 million
Malaga - 12.8 million
Geneva - 11.5 million
London Luton - 10.2 million
Stuttgart - 9.9 million
Alicante - 9.6 million
San747 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 4936 posts, RR: 13 Reply 14, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 3438 times:
2H4 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8950 posts, RR: 62 Reply 15, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 3420 times:
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Ok, so which airport would have the least traffic with the most runways?
SurfandSnow From United States of America, joined Jan 2009, 2588 posts, RR: 31 Reply 16, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 3394 times:
Now now, the number of runways in and of itself can be a bit misleading. Both LAX and SFO have four runways capable of supporting modern jets, but LAX's layout is much more favorable to simultaneous use than that of SFO
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BMI727 From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 14356 posts, RR: 26 Reply 19, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 3289 times:
Quoting 2H4 (Reply 15): Ok, so which airport would have the least traffic with the most runways?
EDW could technically have an infinite number of runways, and therefore would win.
Why do Aerospace Engineering students have to turn things in on time?
JRadier From Netherlands, joined Sep 2004, 4598 posts, RR: 51 Reply 20, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 3269 times:
Quoting KL911 (Reply 9):
AMS has 6 runways, but only uses 1 or 2 at a time due to wind directions and noise rules.
Actually, apart from severe weather there are always 2 in operation, and mostly 3 in a 2+1 config (either 2 landing or departing runways, depending on traffic). There is a possibility for 2+2, but this has been shelved by the recent Alders Agreement between airports, airlines, government, local residents, etc etc.
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Isitsafenow From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4984 posts, RR: 26 Reply 24, posted (3 years 6 months 1 week 1 hour ago) and read 3161 times:
Lets not leave out LGA. Annually there is alot of people on and off
those two runways.
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25 Readytotaxi: Which airport can claim the most runways, used or not?
26 BMI727: Edwards AFB has 3 normal runways, and 15 designated runways on two lakebeds for a total of 18. I suppose technically they would have an infinite numb
27 Readytotaxi: Thank you. Now to be picky, can we call an air force base an airport?
28 PITingres: Well, ORD and DFW both have 7, and I can't think of any airport with scheduled commercial passenger service with more. There are a bunch with 6.
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