Can you name the World's Busiest Airports?

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World's Busiest Airports Quiz

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Created by: Ben -
Published: October 28th, 2008
Category: Miscellaneous
Plays: 101,731

Tags: World Quizzes, Country Quizzes, busiest, airport

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	PhilSandifer:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:01 GMT	30 points
	Man, no using IATA codes? And after I learned them all for the last two airport quizzes too.

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	Kevin:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:11 GMT	14 points
	I had a bit of a problem with typing in the names of cities and getting credit if the name had more than the city. "Chicago" should not be good for O'Hare, "Paris" should not be good for Charles de Gaulle, etc. I think the only one where a city name wasn't good enough was for JFK.

	dposseman:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:11 GMT	17 points
	shouldn't dallas count for dallas-fort worth?

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	Laly:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:17 GMT	13 points
	I think this would be far more challenging if one had to stick to the actual airport name, as opposed to just typing the city name.

	Cuthbert_Twilley:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:20 GMT	3 points
	Airport name would be too hard. Some of them are really obscure. The quiz would be better if the county clue was removed.

	GunpowderJ:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:20 GMT	5 points
	I think taking the countries out and allowing city names might be a decent quiz.

	Kevin:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:22 GMT	11 points
	@Cuthbert Twilley: Isn't that the point? To show you actually know the airports, not just "type in largest cities." You shouldn't get credit for the airport in Bangkok unless you know its name. Hell, I don't think "London" should get you London Heathrow, or "Atlanta" get you Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta.

	Kicking222:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:28 GMT	5 points
	Damned Newark being 24th. Got 14, though I think I guessed 8 of the next 10 (21-30). Shouldda gotten Hong Kong... grr.

	Cuthbert_Twilley:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:30 GMT	4 points
	@Kevin: I agree with you, at least on cities with multiple airports, but most airports are known by the city name, even if they have another name. Do you think it's reasonable to expect people to know Suvarnabhumi or George Bush Intercontinental?

	SporcleAdmin:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:38 GMT	15 points
	While not a perfect solution, given the feedback, we've changed it so that for cities with multiple airports, you need to enter the actual airport, and not just the city (London, Paris, Chicago, Houston)

	Tchaikovsky08:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:41 GMT	14 points
	Why doesn't LAX count for Los Angeles Int'l Airport? Basically everyone refers to it as LAX

	Cuthbert_Twilley:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:42 GMT	14 points
	While I'm happy to see the compromise, I resent having to type "George Bush".

	PresidentJSC:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:42 GMT	5 points
	Surprised that Pu Dong International in Shanghai wasn't in the to p 20.

	Kevin:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:46 GMT	12 points
	@Cuthbert Twilley: There's no official "what they go by" stat, so how would you arbitrate? I'd prefer to go by official name, but that's just me. @Sporcle Admin: Thanks, we appreciate all the effort you guys put into making this site the best time-waster on the internet. :-)

	Matt8204:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 19:02 GMT	-4 points
	16/20 but I think it should have been 18. I typed in Dallas for Dallas-Fort Worth and didn't get credit. I also typed in Houston for George Bush International but didn't get it. Still a good game.

	titaniferous:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 19:54 GMT	5 points
	@Cuthbert: "IAH" will get you around that name. :)

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	davidr:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 22:06 GMT	4 points
	"Chicago O'Hare" and "Paris Charles de Gaulle" should be accepted.

	davidr:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 22:24 GMT	1 point
	@Tim Welch: Er, no. According to Reuters, 26.4 million people flew into or out of Paris Orly in the year to March 2008. In 2007, you needed to deal with 33 million passengers in the year to get in the top thirty.

	davidr:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 22:27 GMT	3 points
	@Matt8204: `Dallas' shouldn't be accepted for DFW. It's not an airport in Dallas called `Fort Worth'; rather, it's the airport that serves the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth.

	tcalleen:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 22:38 GMT	4 points
	DFW isn't really ever referred to as Dallas - it's not in Dallas, it's between Dallas and Fort Worth. Love Field is closer to Dallas city center than DFW is. As for Houston, I personally think Intercontinental should work, since that's what most people from the area call it - that used to be the name before it was renamed George Bush (just joking - I'm not really expecting anyone to change it). I'm not positive, but I believe Hobby is closer to Houston's city center than IAH. If I remember correctly, IAH didn't used to be in the city limits of Houston either. I think it was a good decision to require the names for those locations that have two airports.

	davidr:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 22:45 GMT	2 points
	Also, Tokyo has more than one airport. Confusingly, Tokyo International (aka Tokyo Haneda; IATA HND) handles mostly domestic traffic; Narita International Airport (aka Tokyo Narita, formerly known as New Tokyo International Airport; IATA NRT) handles most of Tokyo's international traffic.

	Westley:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 23:16 GMT	6 points
	It seems like "Bush" should count for Houston. When "Bush" didn't work I didn't even think to try the full name.

	WVUIE97:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 23:59 GMT	1 point
	I typed in "dallas ft worth" and didn't get credit...what gives?

	springmom:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 00:59 GMT	3 points
	I live in Houston, and NO ONE calls it George Bush Intercontinental Airport. NO ONE! We call it Bush. Plain and simple. Be reasonable. It's just stupid to have to put George on there. Besides, it's only been that for about 15 years. Before that it was just Intercontinental, and a lot of Houstonians still call it that.

	Emma Samms:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 02:38 GMT	4 points
	I think the airport codes should count. I fly frequently and I always think of my destination by the airport code. I tried ORD for Chicago AND Chicago but it wants the whole name of the airport spelled out? There is a time limit you know.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 05:39 GMT	6 points
	I got so frustrated. I typed "New York," "New York JFK," "New York John F. Kennedy," and "John F Kennedy." I think I should've got credit for at least one of those.

	davidr:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 08:53 GMT	6 points
	@Emma: `Chicago' isn't good enough because of Chicago Midway.

	AaronW:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 14:41 GMT	4 points
	If it takes J.F.K, Hartsfield and Charles de Gaulle on their own, why do you have to type 'airport' after George Bush Intercontinental?

	davidr:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 17:55 GMT	2 points
	It's a shame that this quiz seems to have turned into a complete trainwreck, if you'll pardon the mixed metaphor. On the face of it, it's a really good idea but it seems to be impossible to make the quiz to everyone's liking. :-(

	drhaase:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 18:14 GMT	5 points
	it just needs more consistency

	Ben:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 20:42 GMT	5 points
	david I agree... I had good intentions with it... as for all the different answers for 1 answer, I need to type in everything I think you guys would type to get the answer and sometimes I do leave things out which I apologize for...

	tcalleen:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 21:54 GMT	5 points
	@Ben: Don't let everyone get you down - it was a great quiz despite the fussing!

	buiksloot:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 22:54 GMT	4 points
	Yes, Ben, cheers! And I do think some of the criticism is on the constructive side - at least I hope so. :)

	zack:	Oct 30th, 2008 at 03:53 GMT	1 point
	singapore is a big airport because many flights need to stop there for connectors. i cant believe there is no miami/rio de janeiro on this list.

	Mr_Xenophobe:	Oct 30th, 2008 at 13:01 GMT	-2 points
	"Hong Kong Int" as you put it is known as Chek lap kok. One of the many double standards here

	davidr:	Oct 30th, 2008 at 15:29 GMT	2 points
	@zack: If you follow the link to Airports.org, Miami is 28th. There's not a huge difference between 30th place (London Gatwick, 20.1M passengers) and 20th (Singapore, 21.9M) but Rio is way, way behind -- only 10.4M passengers in 2007. And that's comparing the whole of 2007 for Rio with 2008 to date for Singapore and Gatwick.