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You are saying exactly what I'm saying, so what's the problem?
I thought you were saying that even with population differences, between Lagos and Dehli their still less important than London. I think GDP plays a much bigger role than the other ones. Now that i'm threading off-topic convo. think Dallas-Seattle can't be compared because Dallas has both the population and the GDP being larger than Seattle, while the other two cities only have population giving them a boost over London/Paris. Hence I didn't think it was a fair comparison.
No they arent. They include connecting traffic. If you add them up and the domestic traffic from the same source, you get the total passenger traffic reported by the airport.
I thought you were saying that even with population differences, between Lagos and Dehli their still less important than London. I think GDP plays a much bigger role than the other ones. Now that i'm threading off-topic convo. think Dallas-Seattle can't be compared because Dallas has both the population and the GDP being larger than Seattle, while the other two cities only have population giving them a boost over London/Paris. Hence I didn't think it was a fair comparison.
You are still not getting the point.
The point is if population is the be all and end all then Lagos and Delhi would be more important than Paris and London.
Point two is GDP usually grows with population growth and the fact that Seattle has a bigger GDP than it's population would suggest shows the powerhouse that Seattle is.
DFW does have an impressive GDP but per capital Seattle is more impressive.
They can certainly be compared once you understand the gist of the comparison. Don't over think it.
Having a large population doesn't make a city. Lagos and Delhi are much much bigger than London and Paris, just like DFW is much larger than Seattle so I'm not sure what part was confusing.
You are still not getting the point.
The point is if population is the be all and end all then Lagos and Delhi would be more important than Paris and London.
Point two is GDP usually grows with population growth and the fact that Seattle has a bigger GDP than it's population would suggest shows the powerhouse that Seattle is.
DFW does have an impressive GDP but per capital Seattle is more impressive.
They can certainly be compared once you understand the gist of the comparison. Don't over think it.
Having a large population doesn't make a city. Lagos and Delhi are much much bigger than London and Paris, just like DFW is much larger than Seattle so I'm not sure what part was confusing.
The point is London has an over .8 trillion dollar economy and Lagos passed 100 billion recently (136 currently). DFW has an economy approaching 600 billion dollars. Seattle is approaching 400 billion dollars you can't say city size is the only factor. Lagos while having more population is 1/6th the economy of London. DFW has more population and a bigger economy. If Lagos had a higher GDP than London or even half it would be comparable but the economy is minuscule compared to London's. Lagos would easily be more important than London if it's GDP was bigger than London's by the same factor, same with Dehli, even if London's GDP per capita remained higher. Because Dallas has the GDP and the population size over Seattle it is more important. If it only had the population without the GDP it would be considerably less important especially if the gap was comparable to Lagos, Dallas would be the poorest MSA in the U.S by a large margin.
They align with overall international figures... so unless nobody connected anywhere.. than those are 100% Wrong.
School me on this.
Is what you're requesting the number of passengers who began and ended their travel at Logan (PHL, CDG...) rather than changed from a domestic to an international flight or vice versa there?
Are those stats easily available? The USDOT database doesn't seem to separate those out.
Houston should be higher than a choose order 10-12. I think the 6 and 7 mark is a city that does have a large economy, an economy that is global, a leader in an industry that contributes greatly not only to the economy locally, but nationally. Strong at education, strong culture, and diversity. Boston checks all of this. Houston misses out on education though slightly but they check the rest of the boxes. Philadelphia checks but misses out on diversity slightly compared to Houston and I believe Boston. I don’t know what industry Philadelphia leads in like Houston does with energy and Boston with education. But 6-8 has to be the Philadelphia, Boston, Houston range.
If you add urbanity to it, then Philadelphia and Boston are 6 and 7.
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