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Yeah most of the people commenting in this thread probably come from countries where major airports are used primarily for international transit, and run by for
by overkill28 8y ago
Yeah most of the people commenting in this thread probably come from countries where major airports are used primarily for international transit, and run by for-profit companies that want to maximize transfer passengers.
They have no concept of an airport getting 90 million domestic passengers a year.
- willhslade 8y agoI'm assuming this is Atlanta? Got a source?
- overkill28 8y agoYeah > International passengers traveling to, from and through Atlanta in 2017 rose by 4.86 percent to 12,033,865, while cargo operations were up 5.66 percent. Overall, Hartsfield-Jackson hosted 103,902,992 passengers last year... https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2018/01/30/hartsfield-jackson-worlds-busiest-airport-for-20th.html https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2018/01/30/hartsfie...
- willhslade 8y agoWow. I'm surprised that 90% is domestic for the busiest airport in the world, but I'm Canadian. Thanks!
- FireBeyond 8y agoAnd yet of the top ten airports, all of whom do at least 75% of ATL's traffic, 7 are not in the US, and display similar characteristics of international traffic versus domestic. I'm amused by the notion or implication that other countries are far more capitalistic and profit motivated than the US - when it comes to airports.
- fmajid 8y agoIn some ways they are, like retail. The British Airports Authority used to be listed on the LSE as a retail stock, because Duty-Free Shopping (an afterthought in most US international airports) was such a big proportion of their revenues.
- FireBeyond 8y agoOh, I have absolutely no doubt. I mean more that the implication that in the US, profoundly capitalist, at times to a fault, has airports as a bastion of socialized community benefit.