2006-06-18 03:58:41 · 12 answers · asked by kellyamra 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Largest Airport Terminal
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.
A new airport being built by the Chinese government in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics will be the world's biggest and be "truly awesome", according to its British architect, Lord Foster.
In further evidence of the Chinese obsession with building bigger, faster and higher than any other country, the plans for Beijing Airport will outdo both the current biggest, Hong Kong's, and Heathrow, which is set to double in size when Terminal 5 is finished.
It will also take less than three years to complete, Lord Foster said. That compares with Terminal 5, which was put before a public inquiry in 1995 and approved in 2001 but which is not expected to open until 2008.
2006-06-18 04:02:24 · answer #1 · answered by Bolan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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THE BIGGEST AIRPORT IN THE WORLD
Taken literally as the airport which takes up the most land mass, this is the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It takes up some 81 square miles - an area larger than many cities.
Trivia: This airport has four terminals, yet only three have ever been used.
The second biggest airport in the world is Denver International, which takes up 53 square miles.
By comparison, London Heathrow takes up around 3,000 acres, or just 4.7 square miles.
THE BUSIEST AIRPORT IN THE WORLD
This depends on whether you monitor aircraft movements (the numbers of take-offs and landings), or passenger numbers. An airport such as Washington National may have relatively high aircraft movements, but as the largest aircraft it handles is a Boeing 757, it handles relatively fewer annual passengers than other airports with similar movements.
Movements and passenger numbers are both acceptable methods of determining the "busiest" airport, although passenger numbers is the generally quoted figure.
MOST PASSENGER NUMBERS
Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson is the busiest airport in the world, handling 76.7 million passengers in 2002. Atlanta overtook Chicago O'Hare in 1998, and is now significantly ahead. Chicago handled 66.6 million passengers in 2002.
BUSIEST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
London Heathrow handles the most international passengers (as opposed to passengers on domestic flights, which make up the majority of traffic at US airports). On an overall scale, Heathrow ranks third behind Atlanta and Chicago.
BUSIEST CITY
When the flights from all airports in a city are combined, London is the busiest aviation centre in the world.
Only London, Tokyo and New York have two airports in the top 30 worldwide.
Combining New York's JFK (29 943 084) and Newark (29 202 654 ) still does not reach the same level as London Heathrow. Despite being the major international gateway for Japan, Tokyo Narita (28 883 606) is overshadowed by the mainly domestic Haneda (61 079 478). This puts Tokyo on a relatively even keel with Heathrow (63 338 641) and Gatwick (29 628 423).
When Stansted (18 750 000), Luton (6 500 000), and London City (1 500 000) are added on top, London handles a total of almost 120 million passengers annually.
2006-06-18 07:44:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The largest Airport located in Dallas/Forworth Area, Texas, Usa...
and right now Dubai is planning to build the largest Airport of the world...
2006-06-18 04:47:31 · answer #3 · answered by iamsohil 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right now the world's largest airport is the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW)airport in Texas. However.....Dubai, a middle eastern country, is in the process of building an even bigger airport, so when that is finished that will be the largest. It will be called Jebel Ali Airport City(JAAC).
2006-06-18 04:06:04 · answer #4 · answered by elijahjaye 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Biggest Airport in the World
Taken literally as the airport which takes up the most land mass, this is the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It takes up some 81 square miles - an area larger than many cities.
2006-06-18 04:03:37 · answer #5 · answered by freespace700 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The World's Busiest Airport not the largest is O'hare in Chicago Illinois
2006-06-18 07:39:36 · answer #6 · answered by Bald Eagle Lover 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In tems of traffic O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Size wise HK airport which was designated number one airport in 2005.
2006-06-18 06:46:06 · answer #7 · answered by Mannie H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dallas/Fort Worth.
2006-06-18 06:27:43 · answer #8 · answered by strykerabramshellcat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dallas Fort Worth. But if you mean the busiest, that's Heathrow in London.
2006-06-18 04:00:35 · answer #9 · answered by Superdog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I though it was Hartsfield in Atlanta, but that may be the biggest in the U.S.
2006-06-18 04:05:22 · answer #10 · answered by Christina D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋