Re: BAA and Rip Off Britain - airport prices higher than High Street
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08:54:23 on Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Iceman remarked:
>> >Greatest number of aircraft movements is Washington National.
>>
>> No, that can't be right. Doesn't have enough simultaneous runways!
>
>There are a huge number of one hour flights to and from New York that
>are going in and out of there constantly. They are turned around very
>quickly.
Find a figure then, and explain why Wiki hasn't got it, and how they can
beat an airport with four simultaneous runways and 2,700 movements a day
(that's five planes landing or taking off every minute, averaged over 18
hours). Maybe you've never seen Atlanta airport?
>> Most non-stop destinations is Frankfurt (265 says wiki).
>
>Heathrow probably has the most intercontinental destinations of any
>airport.
A figure would be useful, but several sources say Frankfurt has
overtaken Heathrow.
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Roland Perry
date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 17:07:19 +0100
author: Roland Perry
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