TinPusher007 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 963 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (8 years 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 12665 times:
Quoting BOSPMV (Thread starter): My guess for the US is ATL, correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they have somewhere around 170 gates?
I know AND CURRENT: Denver - International (DEN / KDEN), USA - Colorado">DEN, takes up the most space, how much did that airport cost?
I have read that if you add up all of the real estate that makes up KDEN (which is alot more than is presently used) you could fit ATL, ORD AND DFW and still have some space left over.
"Flying isn't inherently dangerous...but very unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity or neglect."
BOSPMV From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 305 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (8 years 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 12624 times:
I am looking for a few different answers.
1. what U.S airport is the largest in terms of gates
2. what U.S airport has the largest terminals, or what is the largest airport in sheer size of it's terminal buildings.
3. what foreign airport is the lastgest in terms of gates
4. what foreign airport is the largest in sheer size?
wow, 5 billion for an airport, how did they pay for it? As in, how much of the cost was passed on to taxpayers, what amount did the fed pick up, what amount did the airlines pay.
how did all the baggage cars, etc. get from stapleton to the new airport?
Iowa744Fan From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 928 posts, RR: 2 Reply 9, posted (8 years 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 12619 times:
TinPusher,
I would agree with ORD and ATL, but I don't think that DFW would also fit in. The total land area that is part of DFW is also quite large and I thought was only a few square miles less than DEN. I'll see if I can find anything about this.
TinPusher007 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 963 posts, RR: 2 Reply 10, posted (8 years 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 12619 times:
I think as far as terminal buildings, it would be a toss up between DFW, ORD and ATL.
"Flying isn't inherently dangerous...but very unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity or neglect."
Not really unless you get the unlucky runway switch while taxiing. The runways were designed so that you could go quickly from the gate to the runway and viceversa with the least amount of taxi possible.
Unfortunately the result of this is an airport configuration that from the air looks like a Swastika.
MauriceB From Netherlands, joined Aug 2004, 2477 posts, RR: 28 Reply 12, posted (8 years 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 12618 times:
don't know for sure , but CDG is amazingly big... and guess that the Emirates hub will be the biggest soon, since it need to be big enough for all those Emirates expansions...
N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 80 Reply 13, posted (8 years 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 12607 times:
Quoting BOSPMV (Reply 8): wow, 5 billion for an airport, how did they pay for it? As in, how much of the cost was passed on to taxpayers, what amount did the fed pick up, what amount did the airlines pay.
DEN has among the highest fees in the country for any airport. The airlines pay for it.
Quoting BOSPMV (Reply 8): how did all the baggage cars, etc. get from stapleton to the new airport?
Driven or stuffed into the holds of the RON planes that flew over to DIA over night
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BOSPMV From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 305 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (8 years 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 12597 times:
wow, what is the square milage of DEN, I know space wise Boston is a small city, I think around 33 square miles, look at NYC, that is about 300 square miles.
I have been to DFW, ATL and ORD before, they are all different setups, I like the infield terminal setup that ATL has, they may have a lot of gates, but the actual terminal buildingsa re not to bis, same thing with DFW.
Squirrel83 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 17, posted (8 years 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 12561 times:
Largest Airport Terminal in the world would be
The Hong Kong International Airport passenger terminal building is 1.3 km. (0.8 miles) long and covers 550,000 sq. m. (135.9 acres). The design incorporates a Y-shaped concourse and is the world's largest single airport building.
Just the baggage hall of this gargantuan building is as big as the Yankee Stadium in New York (it could hold five Boeing 747s parked wing tip to wing tip). Served by 48 aircraft parking stands with boarding gates and air bridges, the terminal has a design capacity of 45 million passengers a year, arriving on 460 flights every day. There are 3 km (1.8 miles) of moving walkways, 55,000 m² (13.59 acres) of glass cladding and around 117,000 m² (28.9 acres) of carpeting.
Interesting as well Longest Airport Conveyor Belt
Denver International Airport, Colorado, USA, boasts the largest airport baggage conveyor system in the world. It has 9 km (6 miles) of conveyor belts.
N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 80 Reply 18, posted (8 years 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 12531 times:
Quoting Squirrel83 (Reply 17): Interesting as well Longest Airport Conveyor Belt
Denver International Airport, Colorado, USA, boasts the largest airport baggage conveyor system in the world. It has 9 km (6 miles) of conveyor belts.
You mean the one that kept breaking for something like 5 years
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AADC10 From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 1831 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (8 years 2 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 12397 times:
Quoting GoCOgo (Reply 7): Quoting DLKAPA (Reply 6):
Actually inside DEN you could fit the entire city of Boston.
That's gotta hurt taxi times.
Most of the land at DEN will never be used by the airport. It is mostly buffer region to prevent NIMBYs from building on it and then complaining about the noise. Despite this they have violated noise agreements with surrounding communities in the past.
Taxi times are often better than airports like DFW, ORD or LAX where planes have to taxi across active runways or have inadequate space around the terminals.
DEN has among the highest fees in the country for any airport. The airlines pay for it
Oh the taxpayers paid their fair share of it as well.
I was told that the employees have to pay a share too in a tax on people who work at DEN. Can anyone verify this?
Quoting Squirrel83 (Reply 17): Largest Airport Terminal in the world would be
The Hong Kong International Airport passenger terminal building
This has been mentioned before. HKG is the largest single terminal in the world, but most of the largest airports have multiple terminals and several of them have combined space larger than HKG's terminal.
The space of the terminal is not that easy to answer. Does an on site hotel count? Parking structures? Rail stations? Are only enclosed spaces included or are other spaces included.
What is the Guinness Book of World Records entry? I do not recall that there was one for largest terminal. Even counting gates is difficult since some gates have full waiting areas and jetways, some share parts and some are just doors. Some airports have terminals and gates that are not currently utilized, but may be in the future.
There may not be a definitive answer. There multiple measures of "tallest building." I would seem like you should just simply measure the building, but because there are several buildings not far apart in height the tallest are defined mostly by the one with the highest spires and antennas. The replacement for the World Trade Center will supposedly be the tallest building when it is completed (unless someone else beats them to it) but nearly a third of the height is an empty spire. The Empire State Building has much higher occupied floors and observation decks.
If I had to take a guess, I would say that DFW has the largest terminal space because it sure seems like a death march when connecting.
COSPN From Northern Mariana Islands, joined Oct 2001, 1473 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (8 years 2 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 12207 times:
I was told that the employees have to pay a share too in a tax on people who work at DEN. Can anyone verify this?
Wow glad CO was smart and Bailed out ...Too bad UA refused to pick up CO's SYD-HNL-DEN-LGW route it was a Classic...how many gates were "lost" when DEN moved from Stapleton to DIA ??? More money and less gates great idea..
I Do think DEN/ORD/SFO Are most of UA problems Excessive costs of Doing Biz and Excessive Cost of Living...but not much they can do about it...
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