50 busiest airports in the world

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AYT????
Did not recognize that one
I don't think I have ever booked that airport ever

Antalya Airport is almost entirely international visitors, but they are all European tourists looking for a cheap vacation spot on the beaches of Turkey. Almost every route to/from the airport goes to Europe, Russia, or Ukraine or some domestic destinations. No transatlantic routes at all.

Rare exceptions are
Iraqi Airways Sulaimaniyah
Meraj Airlines Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini

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DOH	AUH	AYT
ZRH	BRU	VIE
DUB	CPH	

I'm guessing Doha, Zurich, Dublin, no idea, Brunei(?), no idea, no idea, and Vienna.

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I'm guessing Doha, Zurich, Dublin, no idea, Brunei(?), no idea, no idea, and Vienna.

Doha, Zurich, Dublin, and Vienna are correct. BRU is Brussels and CPH is Copenhagen
AYT was discussed in previous post

AUH is Abu Dhabi airport. It is a different Emirate than Dubai, but they are both in the same country United Arab Emirates. AUH is home of Etihad. DXB, AUH, and DOH are fairly close to one another. The three Saudia Arabian airports are not far. DMM or Damman was the primary military airport of the Gulf War in 1991, and opened for commercial service in 1999.

Frankfurt to Antalya( AYT )for cheap vacations (1430 miles)


In many ways the airport is similar to Cancun, except Cancun is a more sophisticated resort and gets a fair number of Transatlantic passengers.

Antalya
27,724,249 Total Passengers 2015
20,801,226 International Passengers 2015 (75%)

Cancun
19,596,485 Total Passengers 2015
13,566,003 International Passengers 2015 (69%)

The construction budget for 2016 for MExico City is 5 billion pesos (US $288 million). The $9-billion airport is expected to begin operations in 2020 with three runways in operation and a passenger capacity of 50 million per year. When fully completed, it will have two terminals and six runways with an annual passenger capacity of 120 million. It will also be able to handle up to three aircraft landing and taking off at the same time.

Communications and Transportation Secretary Gerardo Ruiz Esparza said in an interview last week it will be one of the three biggest airports in the world.
- See more at: http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/advances-continue-on-mexico-city-airport/#sthash.dR952gxL.dpuf

While it is true that Mexico city is one of the 7 fastest growing major airports in the world, it is still ranked #45 (up from #48 the year before and #49 the year before that).

16.3% China Shanghai Pudong International Airport
16.1% India Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
16.0% China Kunming Changshui International Airport
15.7% India Indira Gandhi International Airport
13.8% Thailand Suvarnabhumi Airport
12.9% Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (42,340,461)
12.2% Benito Juárez International Airport (38,433,288)


I would say that Esparza seems to have delusions that MEX can be one of the three biggest airports in the world. While I could believe top 20, and possibly top 10, I don't see how it could make top 3.

Brazil's population is more spread out than Mexico's meaning that air travel is more a necessity

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I would say that Esparza seems to have delusions that MEX can be one of the three biggest airports in the world. While I could believe top 20, and possibly top 10, I don't see how it could make top 3.

Maybe he mans by size. The government can always expropriate more land.

It is possible . Right now the new airport appropriated 4,600 hectares of land, which would make it the fourth largest primarily passenger airport in the world.

Shanghai 3,350 hectares
Dallas/Fort Worth 7,800 hectares
Denver International Airport 13,726 hectares
King Fahd International Airport 78,000 hectares (~10 million passengers)

Al Maktoum International Airport opened on 27 June 2010. It is the main part of Dubai World Central, a planned residential, commercial and logistics complex. It will cover an area of 14,000 hectares. The airport has a projected annual capacity of 12 million tonnes of freight and between 160 million and 260 million passengers. As of now only a handful of airlines operate passenger services out of Al Maktoum International Airport.


King Fahd is completely in the desert, 10 miles from the beginning of a populated zone.

If I apply the rate of growth from 2014-2015 for a projected size in 5 years, the rank of the top 50 airports would be as follows.


These would be the fastest growing airports by change in rank
30 KMG China Kunming Changshui International Airport
23 BOM India Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
21 MEX Mexico Benito Juárez International Airport
15 DEL India Indira Gandhi International Airport
13 BKK Thailand Suvarnabhumi Airport
13 SEA United States Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
12 CTU China Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport
12 MCO United States Orlando International Airport

It may not be a reasonable assumption, as some airports are going to get capacity constrained. Mexico is unlikely to be able to sustain 12.20% yearly growth for the next five years without a new airport.

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It is possible . Right now the new airport appropriated 4,600 hectares of land, which would make it the fourth largest primarily passenger airport in the world.

:)

But seriously, what politicians lie about sometimes is amazing. The reason is simple.

Back in the mid 80s, I think, NASA launched a comsat names "Morelos 1" belonging to the Mexican government. Naturally this cost a lot of money, and naturally there were some complaints. Whereupon the Secretary in charge claimed the satellite would also look for usable natural resources.

There are satellites that can do this, yes. But they don't orbit in geosynchronous orbit over 35,000 kilometers above the Earth.

As to the reason, someone I knew well at the time, claimed it was odd for NASA to launch another nation's satellite (never mind one purpose of the Shuttle was to serve as a commercial launch service), and surely they did it only if Mexico agreed to use the satellite to spy on Cuba.

Again, three are satellites that do this. But again not at 35,000+ kilometers above sea level. Not to mention that a geosynch satellite covering the US East Coast has a much better view of Cuba than one covering Mexico...

Politicians lie often because people believe them.