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Atlanta’s airport once again tops list of busiest U.S. airports
TransportAtlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport continued its run as the busiest U.S. airport as its 2012 enplaned passengers rose 3.3% to 45.7 million, according to the rankings from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics announced earlier today. Phoenix dropped two slots in 2012 compared with the prior year and Charlotte cracked the top ten in eighth place after just missing [...]
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America’s largest airports were first farms, golf courses and race tracks
TransportMany of today’s airports stretch across vast tracts of acreage that don’t hold much interest for anyone but plane-spotters and aviation geeks. But before they housed commercial airports, some of these lands had colorful, non-aeronautical pasts. Going way back to the last ice age, there’s evidence that large creatures roamed the land now occupied by Seattle-Tacoma [...]
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Atlanta’s airport is still the world’s busiest as 2012 traffic sets a new record
TransportAtlanta’s airport is keeping its title as the world’s busiest. Airport officials on Tuesday said passenger traffic increased by more than 3.1 million passengers in 2012 — making 2012 the busiest year ever for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Authorities said the 2012 total of 95.5 million passengers is 3.35 percent higher than the previous record [...]
