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The primary responsibility of Atlanta Center is sequencing and separation of over-flights, arrivals, and departures in order to provide safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of aircraft. Atlanta Center is the busiest air traffic control facility in the world. In 2019, Atlanta Center handled 3,022,513 aircraft operations.
Heathrow Airport (/ ˌ h iː θ ˈ r oʊ, ˈ h iː θ r oʊ /), [6] called London Airport until 1966 (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL) [7] and also known as London Heathrow Airport, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
London Heathrow Airport: London, England, United Kingdom LHR/EGLL 472,817 2 0.2% 11. Charles de Gaulle Airport: Paris, France CDG/LFPG 471,318 1 1.5% 12. Frankfurt Airport: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany FRA/EDDF 469,026 1 0.8% 13. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol: Haarlemmermeer, North Holland, Netherlands AMS/EHAM 452,687 1 2.9% 14. Atatürk ...
Atlanta claimed to be the country's busiest airport, with more than two million passengers passing through in 1957 and, between noon and 2 p.m. each day, it became the world's busiest airport. [22] (The April 1957 OAG shows 165 weekday departures from Atlanta, including 45 between 12:05 and 2:00 PM and 20 between 2:25 and 4:25 AM.)
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Inbound aircraft to London Heathrow Airport typically follow one of a number of Standard Arrival Routes (STARs The STARs each terminate at one of four different RNAV waypoints (co-located with VOR navigational aids), and these also define four "stacks" [1] where aircraft can be held, if necessary, until they are cleared to begin their approach to land.
An aerial view of Terminal 3 at Heathrow Airport. Terminal 3 arrivals area. Terminal 3 was opened as the Oceanic Terminal on 13 November 1961; it was built to handle flight departures for long-haul routes. [1] Renamed Terminal 3 in 1968, it was expanded in 1970 with the addition of an arrivals building.
The world's busiest airport is Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, which has been the world's busiest airport every year since 1998 with the exception of 2020, when its passenger traffic dipped for a year due to travel restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. [1]