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Sorry, not sure where you are getting your information.
In 2012 Midway recorded 19,516,127 passengers rounding up that'd be 20 million and going by the increase cycles over the last several years it's very likely to say that Midway will break 20 million passengers in 2013.
The busiest airports aren't coastal cities? London? NYC? Los Angeles? Hong Kong? Singapore? Malaysia? I suppose those aren't major coastal international airports.
You might want to review passenger counts per the airports in the United States. Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta routinely tops the list of the busiest airport in the world, not just the United States. Over 90 million, even Beijing doesn't have that many.
In 2012 O'Hare recorded about 67 million and LA recorded 63 million. JFK is the 6th busiest airport in the United States by raw passenger amounts, coming in at 49 million behind Denver and Dallas-Fortworth, not that impressive, sorry.
This is a moot point since Atlanta is considered the busiest airport in the nation, does that somehow make it more iconic then say DC or SF?
Never said the airport itself makes it more "iconic". I said Chicago's O'Hare is the second busiest airport in the country, and serves more passengers per year than LA. Woodward wants to bring up false information about airports, I'm merely correcting him.
Never said the airport itself makes it more "iconic". I said Chicago's O'Hare is the second busiest airport in the country, and serves more passengers per year than LA. Woodward wants to bring up false information about airports, I'm merely correcting him.
Why bring that up in the first place though if not to push the idea that it boosts Chicago as an iconic city?
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Sorry, not sure where you are getting your information.
In 2012 Midway recorded 19,516,127 passengers rounding up that'd be 20 million and going by the increase cycles over the last several years it's very likely to say that Midway will break 20 million passengers in 2013.
So basically what he said is true, you can't round up and pass 20 million, just like Chicago can't round up it's metro and pass 10 million, it isn't at that level yet, nor can you round Chicago up to a 3 million city, it lost that mantra. Nor can SF say it is a city of a million, it can once it actually hits that milestone. But I don't see SF posters claiming such things. They both need to earn those milestones.
Anyway you have been pulling at straws for the last 10 pages or so...
Why bring that up in the first place though if not to push the idea that it boosts Chicago as an iconic city?
So basically what he said is true, you can't round up and pass 20 million, just like Chicago can't round up it's metro and pass 10 million, it isn't at that level yet, nor can you round Chicago up to a 3 million city, it lost that mantra. Nor can SF say it is a city of a million, it can once it actually hits that milestone. But I don't see SF posters claiming such things. They both need to earn those milestones.
Anyway you have been pulling at straws for the last 10 pages or so...
Do you have anything worthwhile to contribute to the discussion of Los Angeles vs Chicago in terms of icon recognition and culture or not?
O'Hare is a busier airport than Los Angeles, thus giving it a higher spot on the world list, thus it sees more people, thus it is probably more well known. That is all I am suggesting.
2013 is not over yet, but for the 2013 year Midway is on pace to break the 20 million mark. It's no different than population estimates.
Do you have anything worthwhile to contribute to the discussion of Los Angeles vs Chicago in terms of icon recognition and culture or not?
O'Hare is a busier airport than Los Angeles, thus giving it a higher spot on the world list, thus it sees more people, thus it is probably more well known. That is all I am suggesting.
2013 is not over yet, but for the 2013 year Midway is on pace to break the 20 million mark. It's no different than population estimates.
O'Hare is a busier airport than Los Angeles, thus giving it a higher spot on the world list, thus it sees more people, thus it is probably more well known. That is all I am suggesting.
But this is wrong. LA is a busier air hub than Chicago.
Never said the airport itself makes it more "iconic". I said Chicago's O'Hare is the second busiest airport in the country, and serves more passengers per year than LA. Woodward wants to bring up false information about airports, I'm merely correcting him.
Looks to me like Woodward posted correct information on airports, and you got schooled.
Unless Wikipedia is incorrect, Midway isn't a major airport, has never seen 20 million passengers, and Chicago has fewer air passengers than LA.
Do you have anything worthwhile to contribute to the discussion of Los Angeles vs Chicago in terms of icon recognition and culture or not?
O'Hare is a busier airport than Los Angeles, thus giving it a higher spot on the world list, thus it sees more people, thus it is probably more well known. That is all I am suggesting.
2013 is not over yet, but for the 2013 year Midway is on pace to break the 20 million mark. It's no different than population estimates.
I have contributed a lot by enlightening the falsities in your posts back to an even level. Most people have already mentioned the merits of Los Angeles as a cultural icon city over Chicago so I don't feel the need to repeat them ad nauseum.
By your logic Atlanta would be over Chicago per airport traffic and Dubai should also be over Chicago because it has a taller building. In reality, neither of these examples make a place iconic, hence why I said, you have been pulling at straws for the last 10 pages or so.
Also realize LA gets FAR more international visitors than Chicago in the millions, the numbers you are looking at for O'Hare are often layovers, those people see nothing but a few Starbucks, a Garrett popcorn stand and some escalators.
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