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- seraph741, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5they do run a tight ship at O'Hare! Atlanta might seem busier just because they aren't as organized. Sweet home, CHICAGO! Can't beat it! ;)
- Tialys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've flown through O'Hare many, many times and I've never had any trouble with my flight. For being so busy, they sure run a tight ship.
- panhandle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't know about the busiest, but I sure know its the most boring place on earth!
- Kosterfield, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Unless they are fighters landing in formation there is no way they are landing multiple planes on the same runway at once. Fighters are a whole seperate story. Besides the engine wake would toss any plane that close into the ground...
- aviazn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What the deuce are you talking about Kosterfield? You ever been to AirVenture? You gotta go, it's amazing. They most certainly do land three planes on one runway--they way they do it is they paint huge colored dots at intervals on the runway and when you get a landing clearance, it's a for specific dot on the runway. Actually, they have two runways, plus they convert one of the taxiways into a runway, so there conceivably can be 9 planes touching down at the airport simultaneously. These are the small private plane variety, which is why wake turbulence isn't a huge factor. And why is Fluxx being modded down? He's totally right--OSH is nuts during AirVenture. Just sit by the runway with an air band scanner and listen to the ATC communication. OSH becomes the busiest airport in the world, and because the airport doesn't have any approach radar facility the controllers do their job the old-fashioned way--with just a pair of binoculars. There's so much traffic that standard procedures are for the pilot to acknowledge all transmissions with a rock of the wings instead of a verbal response to keep the airwaves clear for the controllers. Or watch them at the end of the week when everyone starts to leave. You'll end up with maybe a takeoff line of 50 planes going down the taxiway, and one plane is hardly in the air before the next is cleared. You look down into the distance and there are dozens of planes all lined up in the sky on their departure climb... Mmm, can't wait to go again...
- Gryffydd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I bet that kind of ruined the atmosphere of geeks running around in fairy and elf costumes...
- crash331, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love north of Atlanta, and I don't know how the people in areas like College Park can stand it. We went to the Rennaissance Festival which is south of the airport and there was seriously a plane taking off once every 10 seconds or so.
- Fluxx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6It won't be in about 2 1/2 weeks....
http://www.airventure.org/
Osh Kosh becomes the busiest airport in the world for that week. It's so busy, they have to land 3 planes at once on the same runway.
I'm going and I can't wait! - 000jr000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Reminds me of:
"If ***** could fly, this place would be busier than O'Hare" - Alkaline Trio
...applies to a lot of places... - DarkSorrow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Altanla is the busist airport i ever went. They have like five long rows of building, to get to another row faster, take a subway to get there. it like 50 gate on each row, it crowded, sometime the gate changed the last min and it moved in another row, AHHHHH, i almost miss the plane..... but i got there fine.
Atlanta is the busist airport i ever went - TrustyChords, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2God bless Chicago, the greatest city ever.
- drunkenoaf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In which case the busiest International airport is London Heathrow!
- Vision77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think I'll stick with Midway.
- JJVH, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2From living in Atlanta for years, I can tell you that Hartsfield is still hell on earth when it comes to Airports. The only reason any other airport could top it is because Delta is having some issues, especially with domestic flights. I just flew out of there last night, and even on a day that you wouldn't expect people to be traveling, it's insane.
- brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1With the exception of bad weather (of which ORD has more than its share thanks to lake effect) delays arent airport-specific, they are airline-specfiic.
Late arrivals of equipment and crews, equipment failure, etc..
That said, ORD is such a large hub that standby crews, aircraft, maintenance and alternate flights are in ready supply, so you arent as likely to get screwed as bad - especially if you fly a major domestic airline that calls it home (UA). - grady, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They landed two at once in Lakeland, FL this spring. "V tail, wag your wings with gusto and land on the orange dot". Good times, good times.
- dslabuser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I work for an airline that uses O'hare as a hub. Almost everyday there are significant air traffic control delays. It sucks telling someone that is connecting through O'hare that we can not get them out for a couple of days happens far to frequently. Avoid O'hare like the plague.
- Gryffydd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That sounds familiar. They changed my gate to a whole different concourse about 15 minutes before the scheduled takeoff. I *barely* made it there on time.
- Gryffydd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Because, you know, an airplane taking off or landing takes less time when it's a domestic flight. What difference does it make where a plane flew in from or where it's going when it takes off? It's traffic on a runway.
If you're talking about traffic around Los Angeles does it not count unless the cars are from Nevada? - brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What difference does it make where the planes are going? Whether they are going to Detroit or Hong Kong, a takeoff or landing is exactly the same. All that matters is # of flights and passengers.
- LeoGagen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Looks like this is highly debatable - see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_busiest_airport
In terms of actually getting me somewhere, its the number of international flights that count to me. The fact that an airport has 50 flights a day to bumfluf, Indiana doesn't interest me much. - n64man987, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0O'hare will remain on top now that United is out of bankruptcy. With 2 of the largest carrier's hubbing out of one airport its no suprise not to mention that its also a large international hub. The only reason that Atlanta go on top last year was because the FAA put restrictions on both United and American limiting the flights in and out of O'hare because the airport was just hitting capacity...which is saying something considering on a given day they will use 4 active runways at the same time and they are expanding!
As for delay's I have rarely had O'hare be the cause of my delay's and I fly in and out of that airport weekly. - Fluxx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I saw it with my own eyes. The runway is 1.5 miles long. They had one plane land on the numbers, one on the "orange dot" and one on the "white dot." Keep in mind these are small single engine planes.
- TypeMRT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I was there on 4th of July too; Why on earth that airport would be so busy at 5pm on a holiday is beyond me.
- TrustyChords, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Props for listening to a great band.
- theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I always thought Memphis was the world's busiest airport. FedEx, you know. Or is this just counting passenger flights?
- ThrasherC, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Is there any significance to this besides telling me what airport NOT to fly through?
- EAMUS1CATULI, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1HAHAHAHAHAHAHA..
- crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -12/+415 diggs to the front page? ... phat props to O'Hare though... seriously
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