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Can you name the World's Busiest Airports? Enter an airport in the box below Correctly named airports will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Ben Based on passenger traffic measured by Airports.org You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today You Do Know Jack 28063 TV Shows (U.S.) 27486 Russia's Borders 26784 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 14831 Commonest English Words 11106 Same Last Name 9133 And more...
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Country	Airport
United States
United States
England
Japan
United States
France
United States
Germany
China
United States

Country	Airport
Spain
China
United States
United States
Netherlands
United States
Thailand
United States
United States
Singapore

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There are 57 comments for this game.
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	PhilSandifer:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 22:01 GMT	22 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 22:11 GMT	13 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 22:11 GMT	10 points
	shouldn't dallas count for dallas-fort worth?

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	Laly:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 22:17 GMT	12 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 22:20 GMT	1 point
	Airport name would be too hard. Some of them are really obscure. The quiz would be better if the county clue was removed.

	SLaird:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 22:20 GMT	4 points
	I think taking the countries out and allowing city names might be a decent quiz.

	Kevin:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 22:22 GMT	15 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 22:28 GMT	6 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 22:30 GMT	3 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 22:38 GMT	14 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 22:41 GMT	12 points
	Why doesn't LAX count for Los Angeles Int'l Airport? Basically everyone refers to it as LAX

Country	Airport
United States
United States
England
Japan
United States
France
United States
Germany
China
United States

	PresidentJSC:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 22:42 GMT	5 points
	Surprised that Pu Dong International in Shanghai wasn't in the to p 20.

	Kevin:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 22:46 GMT	13 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. :-)

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	J:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 23:54 GMT	4 points
	@Cuthbert: "IAH" will get you around that name. :)

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	davidr:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 02:06 GMT	4 points
	"Chicago O'Hare" and "Paris Charles de Gaulle" should be accepted.

	davidr:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 02:24 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 29th, 2008 at 02:27 GMT	1 point
	@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 29th, 2008 at 02:38 GMT	3 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 29th, 2008 at 02:45 GMT	1 point
	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 29th, 2008 at 03:16 GMT	5 points
	It seems like "Bush" should count for Houston. When "Bush" didn't work I didn't even think to try the full name.

	WVU 97:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 03:59 GMT	2 points
	I typed in "dallas ft worth" and didn't get credit...what gives?

	springmom:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 04:59 GMT	2 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 06:38 GMT	6 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 09:39 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 12:53 GMT	4 points
	@Emma: `Chicago' isn't good enough because of Chicago Midway.

	AaronW:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 18:41 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 21:55 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 22:14 GMT	5 points
	it just needs more consistency

	Ben:	Oct 30th, 2008 at 00:42 GMT	6 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 30th, 2008 at 01:54 GMT	4 points
	@Ben: Don't let everyone get you down - it was a great quiz despite the fussing!

	buiksloot:	Oct 30th, 2008 at 02:54 GMT	3 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 07:53 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 17:01 GMT	-1 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 19:29 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.