Fwd: Atlanta, Chicago Both Claim World's Busiest Airport

--- Colleen Turner <colleenturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:49:31 -0800 (PST)
> From: Colleen Turner <colleenturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Atlanta, Chicago Both Claim World's Busiest
> Airport
> To: airport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Atlanta, Chicago Both Claim World's Busiest Airport
> Associated Press 
>   
> Published January 11, 2004  
>   
> ATLANTA -- A rivalry over which airport is the
> world's
> busiest has pitted Chicago against Atlanta, with
> each
> city saying its hub holds the record.
> 
> Chicago's O'Hare International Airport had the most
> takeoffs and landings in 2003 -- 928,735, according
> to
> the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, or
> 931,000, according to the Federal Aviation
> Administration.
> 
> But Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
> is projected to have the most passengers. It had
> 58,875,694 passengers through September, the latest
> numbers available.
> 
> FAA spokesman William Shumann said takeoffs and
> landings and passengers are both valid measures for
> determining which airport is the world's busiest.
> That
> makes the title elusive, he said.
> 
> "We don't have a World Series of airports,"
> Hartsfield-Jackson spokesman Robert Kennedy said.
> 
> O'Hare spokeswoman Monique Bond downplayed the
> airport
> rivalry, but insisted O'Hare is the world's busiest.
> 
> While airports covet the title for marketing and
> prestige, there also could be a downside. 
> 
> "As a passenger you might get through the airport
> with
> no trouble because there aren't a lot of people and
> the plane pushes back [from the gate] on time, but
> unfortunately there are 10 planes waiting to take
> off
> in front of you," he said.
> 
> 
> 

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