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Old Posted Apr 9, 2024, 5:57 PM
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Major airport statistics
Initial list is limited to the 34 busiest airports in the United States and four busiest in Canada.

List of major airports by land area (descending)
  1. Denver International Airport: 54.05 square miles
  2. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport: 26.9 square miles
  3. Washington Dulles International Airport: 20.3 square miles
  4. Orlando International Airport: 18.1 square miles
  5. George Bush Intercontinental Airport: 15.6 square miles
  6. Salt Lake City International Airport: 12.03 square miles
  7. O'Hare International Airport: 11.9 square miles
  8. Charlotte Douglas International Airport: 8.68 square miles
  9. San Francisco International Airport: 8.13 square miles
  10. Calgary International Airport: 8.04 square miles
  11. John F. Kennedy International Airport: 7.7 square miles
  12. Detroit Metropolitan Airport: 7.57 square miles
  13. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: 7.34 square miles
  14. Toronto Pearson International Airport: 7.2 square miles
  15. Daniel K. Inouye International Airport: 7.06 square miles
  16. Nashville International Airport: 7.03 square miles
  17. Austin–Bergstrom International Airport: 6.62 square miles
  18. St. Louis Lambert International Airport: 5.92 square miles
  19. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport: 5.3 square miles
  20. Vancouver International Airport : 5.17 square miles
  21. Tampa International Airport: 5.15 square miles
  22. Miami International Airport: 5 square miles
  23. Baltimore/Washington International Airport: 4.93 square miles
  24. Los Angeles International Airport: 4.6 square miles
  25. Portland International Airport: 4.6 square miles
  26. Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport: 4.57 square miles
  27. Harry Reid International Airport: 4.4 square miles
  28. Seattle–Tacoma International Airport: 3.9 square miles
  29. Logan International Airport: 3.72 square miles
  30. Philadelphia International Airport: 3.59 square miles
  31. Newark Liberty International Airport: 3.16 square miles
  32. Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport: 2.15 square miles
  33. Dallas Love Field: 2.03 square miles
  34. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport: 1.34 square miles
  35. LaGuardia Airport: 1.06 square miles
  36. San Diego International Airport: 1.03 square miles
  37. Chicago Midway International Airport: 1.01 square miles
  38. Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport: ? square miles

Denver International and Dallas Fort Worth are as big as (or bigger than) some major cities.




Passenger count per square mile (2019)
  1. LaGuardia Airport: 29,325,372
  2. San Diego International Airport: 24,482,473
  3. Chicago Midway International Airport: 20,638,475
  4. Los Angeles International Airport: 19,145,220
  5. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport: 17,869,796
  6. Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport: 17,091,917
  7. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: 15,058,760
  8. Newark Liberty International Airport: 14,663,434
  9. Seattle–Tacoma International Airport: 13,289,548
  10. Harry Reid International Airport: 11,713,100
  11. Logan International Airport: 11,430,756
  12. Philadelphia International Airport: 9,197,461
  13. Miami International Airport: 9,184,893
  14. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport: 8,733,648
  15. Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport: 8,655,369
  16. Dallas Love Field: 8,266,088
  17. John F. Kennedy International Airport: 8,123,516
  18. O'Hare International Airport: 7,113,371
  19. San Francisco International Airport: 7,071,098
  20. Toronto Pearson International Airport: 7,013,810
  21. Charlotte Douglas International Airport: 5,779,814
  22. Baltimore/Washington International Airport: 5,475,435
  23. Vancouver International Airport : 5,102,489
  24. Detroit Metropolitan Airport: 4,857,236
  25. Tampa International Airport: 4,368,535
  26. Portland International Airport: 4,324,210
  27. Daniel K. Inouye International Airport: 3,097,832
  28. George Bush Intercontinental Airport: 2,901,542
  29. Orlando International Airport: 2,796,302
  30. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport: 2,790,593
  31. St. Louis Lambert International Airport: 2,682,184
  32. Austin–Bergstrom International Airport: 2,619,899
  33. Nashville International Airport: 2,599,350
  34. Calgary International Airport: 2,233,555
  35. Salt Lake City International Airport: 2,228,430
  36. Denver International Airport: 1,276,886
  37. Washington Dulles International Airport: 1,222,546
  38. Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport: ?



Aircraft movements per square mile (2019)
  1. LaGuardia Airport: 352,223
  2. Chicago Midway International Airport: 229,786
  3. San Diego International Airport: 224,616
  4. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport: 218,419
  5. Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport: 154,161
  6. Los Angeles International Airport: 150,273
  7. Newark Liberty International Airport: 141,241
  8. Harry Reid International Airport: 125,673
  9. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: 123,202
  10. Seattle–Tacoma International Airport: 115,509
  11. Logan International Airport: 114,832
  12. Dallas Love Field: 114,226
  13. Philadelphia International Airport: 108,725
  14. Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport: 88,857
  15. Miami International Airport: 83,355
  16. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport: 82,810
  17. O'Hare International Airport: 77,286
  18. Charlotte Douglas International Airport: 66,620
  19. Vancouver International Airport : 64,258
  20. Toronto Pearson International Airport: 63,208
  21. John F. Kennedy International Airport: 59,229
  22. San Francisco International Airport: 56,396
  23. Baltimore/Washington International Airport: 53,265
  24. Detroit Metropolitan Airport: 52,432
  25. Portland International Airport: 51,823
  26. Daniel K. Inouye International Airport: 46,293
  27. Tampa International Airport: 42,206
  28. St. Louis Lambert International Airport: 32,758
  29. Austin–Bergstrom International Airport: 31,681
  30. George Bush Intercontinental Airport: 30,646
  31. Calgary International Airport: 29,707
  32. Salt Lake City International Airport: 28,655
  33. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport: 26,766
  34. Orlando International Airport: 19,762
  35. Washington Dulles International Airport: 14,041
  36. Denver International Airport: 11,843
  37. Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport: ?
  38. Nashville International Airport: ?

Airports with small land areas like LaGuardia, Midway, San Diego, and Reagan National, lean a LOT on smaller aircraft, which boosts their movement to land area ratios.


? - I'm not able to locate a land area that has been published for Montreal's Pierre Trudeau Airport. I am also not able to find 2019 aircraft movement data for Nashville International. I left placeholders in case someone has those numbers.
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I've never heard of people analyzing passenger count per sq mile of airport land area. What useful information does such a figure actually reveal? It's not like DIA has developed all, or even most, of the 54 sq miles it owns. I guess looking at airport land area reveals which airports are the most constrained by proximate development, but not sure what the 'per capita' metrics tell us.
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It says a lot about land efficiency.

I love cities that cram a lot into small spaces.

This thread will be off to the transportation board soon I imagine.
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It says a lot about land efficiency.
Not really. Denver International Airport could own 54 sq miles of land, but have all operations contained in 5 sq miles, with the rest being undeveloped open space. Not saying that is the case, just that it could be given the information presented. Looking at how much space an airport actually uses would reveal info on land efficiency. Simply looking at how much is owned does not.
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DIA needs all that space to hide all the alien bodies and crashed spaceships plus the reptilians have a secret underground lair there.
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I'm guessing it's based on the administrative boundaries the airports use? I wonder what the size of the developed land (like tarmac and such) is as well as what's under it .
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Airports with small land areas like LaGuardia, Midway, San Diego, and Reagan National, lean a LOT on smaller aircraft, which boosts their movement to land area ratios.
Interestingly, MDW actually sees FAR fewer regional jets (both in absolutes and as a percentage) compared to ORD.

Southwest runs like 90% of all flights into/out of MDW, and they don't have any RJ's in their fleet; they are 100% 737. So that's pretty much all you ever see there, save for the occasional A320 from Frontier, Allegiant, or Volaris. Delta Connection (E175's) and Porter (Dash-8's) are the only airlines that fly RJ's into MDW, and we're only talking like a dozen or so flights/day total.

ORD, on the other hand, is a major dual hub for both United and American, and every day they funnel hundreds of RJ's into ORD from God only knows how many small cities spread across the interior of the nation.

so between the two, it's actually ORD that gets the boost in aircraft movements from loads of smaller planes.
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I'm guessing it's based on the administrative boundaries the airports use? I wonder what the size of the developed land (like tarmac and such) is as well as what's under it .
There is very little under airports in the US, except, of course, Denver, where they have, you know, that Reptilian lair.
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Rudimentary tracing of the YUL (Montreal airport) area suggests approximately 4.02 square miles.
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Also, some of these airports, like LAX, MIA and ORD, are MAJOR cargo airports in addition to being MAJOR passenger airports, and thus get an aircraft movement boost from their cargo flights relative to airports that are more singularly oriented (relatively speaking) to just commercial passenger traffic.
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Interesting that approach of passengers density.

Out of curiosity I checked São Paulo Congonhas: 22 million passengers in 2023 and a 0.618 sq mi area. 35.6 million pax/sqm. A good lead over La Guardia and might have a good chance to be the world’s busiest by that metric. I don’t know.

Last month their admin announced plans to build another terminal and they expect to reach 28 million passengers, mostly by allowing A321, that apparently is slightly bigger than the A320 and B737 that have the monopoly today.
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Nashville's aircraft movements per square mile came to: 38,664

That's just per wikipedia

EDIT: Those are 2023 numbers, and I'm just realizing the list is for 2019 numbers. So the 2019 figures are probably right there around Austin and St. Louis.
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Not really. Denver International Airport could own 54 sq miles of land, but have all operations contained in 5 sq miles, with the rest being undeveloped open space. Not saying that is the case, just that it could be given the information presented. Looking at how much space an airport actually uses would reveal info on land efficiency. Simply looking at how much is owned does not.
With enough money, DIA can build expansions all over, in green (sorry beige) fields if they want.

Smaller airports need to get very intricate to use every square inch to the best effect. It's a very different dynamic, and one I find fascinating.
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Interesting that approach of passengers density.

Out of curiosity I checked São Paulo Congonhas: 22 million passengers in 2023 and a 0.618 sq mi area. 35.6 million pax/sqm. A good lead over La Guardia and might have a good chance to be the world’s busiest by that metric. I don’t know.

Last month their admin announced plans to build another terminal and they expect to reach 28 million passengers, mostly by allowing A321, that apparently is slightly bigger than the A320 and B737 that have the monopoly today.
Yeah, Congonhas is one of the few major airports in the world that covers a noticeably smaller area than LaGuardia, so I wouldn't be surprised if it is "busiest" in the world. LaGuardia is probably in the top 5 as well, if not second place.

Is Santos Dumont smaller than Congonhas? Dumont seems about as small, if not smaller than Congonhas, but I know it doesn't get as many passengers.
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Updated using the estimate for Trudeau Airport provided by Zeej:

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Initial list is limited to the 34 busiest airports in the United States and four busiest in Canada.

List of major airports by land area (descending)
  1. Denver International Airport: 54.05 square miles
  2. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport: 26.9 square miles
  3. Washington Dulles International Airport: 20.3 square miles
  4. Orlando International Airport: 18.1 square miles
  5. George Bush Intercontinental Airport: 15.6 square miles
  6. Salt Lake City International Airport: 12.03 square miles
  7. O'Hare International Airport: 11.9 square miles
  8. Charlotte Douglas International Airport: 8.68 square miles
  9. San Francisco International Airport: 8.13 square miles
  10. Calgary International Airport: 8.04 square miles
  11. John F. Kennedy International Airport: 7.7 square miles
  12. Detroit Metropolitan Airport: 7.57 square miles
  13. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: 7.34 square miles
  14. Toronto Pearson International Airport: 7.2 square miles
  15. Daniel K. Inouye International Airport: 7.06 square miles
  16. Nashville International Airport: 7.03 square miles
  17. Austin–Bergstrom International Airport: 6.62 square miles
  18. St. Louis Lambert International Airport: 5.92 square miles
  19. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport: 5.3 square miles
  20. Vancouver International Airport : 5.17 square miles
  21. Tampa International Airport: 5.15 square miles
  22. Miami International Airport: 5 square miles
  23. Baltimore/Washington International Airport: 4.93 square miles
  24. Los Angeles International Airport: 4.6 square miles
  25. Portland International Airport: 4.6 square miles
  26. Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport: 4.57 square miles
  27. Harry Reid International Airport: 4.4 square miles
  28. Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport: 4.02 square miles*
  29. Seattle–Tacoma International Airport: 3.9 square miles
  30. Logan International Airport: 3.72 square miles
  31. Philadelphia International Airport: 3.59 square miles
  32. Newark Liberty International Airport: 3.16 square miles
  33. Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport: 2.15 square miles
  34. Dallas Love Field: 2.03 square miles
  35. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport: 1.34 square miles
  36. LaGuardia Airport: 1.06 square miles
  37. San Diego International Airport: 1.03 square miles
  38. Chicago Midway International Airport: 1.01 square miles

Denver International and Dallas Fort Worth are as big as (or bigger than) some major cities.




Passenger count per square mile (2019)
  1. LaGuardia Airport: 29,325,372
  2. San Diego International Airport: 24,482,473
  3. Chicago Midway International Airport: 20,638,475
  4. Los Angeles International Airport: 19,145,220
  5. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport: 17,869,796
  6. Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport: 17,091,917
  7. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: 15,058,760
  8. Newark Liberty International Airport: 14,663,434
  9. Seattle–Tacoma International Airport: 13,289,548
  10. Harry Reid International Airport: 11,713,100
  11. Logan International Airport: 11,430,756
  12. Philadelphia International Airport: 9,197,461
  13. Miami International Airport: 9,184,893
  14. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport: 8,733,648
  15. Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport: 8,655,369
  16. Dallas Love Field: 8,266,088
  17. John F. Kennedy International Airport: 8,123,516
  18. O'Hare International Airport: 7,113,371
  19. San Francisco International Airport: 7,071,098
  20. Toronto Pearson International Airport: 7,013,810
  21. Charlotte Douglas International Airport: 5,779,814
  22. Baltimore/Washington International Airport: 5,475,435
  23. Vancouver International Airport : 5,102,489
  24. Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport: 5,051,021*
  25. Detroit Metropolitan Airport: 4,857,236
  26. Tampa International Airport: 4,368,535
  27. Portland International Airport: 4,324,210
  28. Daniel K. Inouye International Airport: 3,097,832
  29. George Bush Intercontinental Airport: 2,901,542
  30. Orlando International Airport: 2,796,302
  31. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport: 2,790,593
  32. St. Louis Lambert International Airport: 2,682,184
  33. Austin–Bergstrom International Airport: 2,619,899
  34. Nashville International Airport: 2,599,350
  35. Calgary International Airport: 2,233,555
  36. Salt Lake City International Airport: 2,228,430
  37. Denver International Airport: 1,276,886
  38. Washington Dulles International Airport: 1,222,546



Aircraft movements per square mile (2019)
  1. LaGuardia Airport: 352,223
  2. Chicago Midway International Airport: 229,786
  3. San Diego International Airport: 224,616
  4. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport: 218,419
  5. Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport: 154,161
  6. Los Angeles International Airport: 150,273
  7. Newark Liberty International Airport: 141,241
  8. Harry Reid International Airport: 125,673
  9. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: 123,202
  10. Seattle–Tacoma International Airport: 115,509
  11. Logan International Airport: 114,832
  12. Dallas Love Field: 114,226
  13. Philadelphia International Airport: 108,725
  14. Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport: 88,857
  15. Miami International Airport: 83,355
  16. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport: 82,810
  17. O'Hare International Airport: 77,286
  18. Charlotte Douglas International Airport: 66,620
  19. Vancouver International Airport : 64,258
  20. Toronto Pearson International Airport: 63,208
  21. John F. Kennedy International Airport: 59,229
  22. Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport: 59,154*
  23. San Francisco International Airport: 56,396
  24. Baltimore/Washington International Airport: 53,265
  25. Detroit Metropolitan Airport: 52,432
  26. Portland International Airport: 51,823
  27. Daniel K. Inouye International Airport: 46,293
  28. Tampa International Airport: 42,206
  29. St. Louis Lambert International Airport: 32,758
  30. Austin–Bergstrom International Airport: 31,681
  31. George Bush Intercontinental Airport: 30,646
  32. Calgary International Airport: 29,707
  33. Salt Lake City International Airport: 28,655
  34. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport: 26,766
  35. Orlando International Airport: 19,762
  36. Washington Dulles International Airport: 14,041
  37. Denver International Airport: 11,843
  38. Nashville International Airport: ?

Airports with small land areas like LaGuardia, Midway, San Diego, and Reagan National, lean a LOT on smaller aircraft, which boosts their movement to land area ratios.


? - I'm not able to locate a land area that has been published for Montreal's Pierre Trudeau Airport. I am also not able to find 2019 aircraft movement data for Nashville International. I left placeholders in case someone has those numbers.
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Initial list is limited to the 34 busiest airports in the United States and four busiest in Canada.

List of major airports by land area (descending)
  1. Denver International Airport: 54.05 square miles
  2. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport: 26.9 square miles
  3. Washington Dulles International Airport: 20.3 square miles
  4. Orlando International Airport: 18.1 square miles
  5. George Bush Intercontinental Airport: 15.6 square miles
  6. Salt Lake City International Airport: 12.03 square miles
  7. O'Hare International Airport: 11.9 square miles
  8. Charlotte Douglas International Airport: 8.68 square miles
  9. San Francisco International Airport: 8.13 square miles
  10. Calgary International Airport: 8.04 square miles
  11. John F. Kennedy International Airport: 7.7 square miles
  12. Detroit Metropolitan Airport: 7.57 square miles
  13. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: 7.34 square miles
  14. Toronto Pearson International Airport: 7.2 square miles
  15. Daniel K. Inouye International Airport: 7.06 square miles
  16. Nashville International Airport: 7.03 square miles
  17. Austin–Bergstrom International Airport: 6.62 square miles
  18. St. Louis Lambert International Airport: 5.92 square miles
  19. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport: 5.3 square miles
  20. Vancouver International Airport : 5.17 square miles
  21. Tampa International Airport: 5.15 square miles
  22. Miami International Airport: 5 square miles
  23. Baltimore/Washington International Airport: 4.93 square miles
  24. Los Angeles International Airport: 4.6 square miles
  25. Portland International Airport: 4.6 square miles
  26. Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport: 4.57 square miles
  27. Harry Reid International Airport: 4.4 square miles
  28. Seattle–Tacoma International Airport: 3.9 square miles
  29. Logan International Airport: 3.72 square miles
  30. Philadelphia International Airport: 3.59 square miles
  31. Newark Liberty International Airport: 3.16 square miles
  32. Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport: 2.15 square miles
  33. Dallas Love Field: 2.03 square miles
  34. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport: 1.34 square miles
  35. LaGuardia Airport: 1.06 square miles
  36. San Diego International Airport: 1.03 square miles
  37. Chicago Midway International Airport: 1.01 square miles
  38. Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport: ? square miles
Just a comparison:
Miami International: 131 gates
Austin-Bergstrom: 34 gates

What is Austin using that space for ? Definitely has room to grow, which it absolutely needs to. That airport (Austin) is always packed whenever I am there which makes sense with only 1 terminal and 34 gates.
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Yeah, Congonhas is one of the few major airports in the world that covers a noticeably smaller area than LaGuardia, so I wouldn't be surprised if it is "busiest" in the world. LaGuardia is probably in the top 5 as well, if not second place.
I was actually surprised by LaGuardia. It looks bigger on the GE than it actually is, maybe due so many runaways, something typical of US airports.

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Is Santos Dumont smaller than Congonhas? Dumont seems about as small, if not smaller than Congonhas, but I know it doesn't get as many passengers.
Yeah, it's half of the size: not even 1 km²: 833,703 m²; Congonhas is at 1,647,000 m² and much busier than Santos Dumont (22 mi vs 11 mi). And that will probably be SDU's peak as it's already cannibalizing Rio Galeão International (GIG) and they're trying to redirect flights there to keep it relevant. GIG massive, but idle and declining: only 7.9 million passengers in 2023.

Congonhas is more famous due that dive on the ocean of highrises, but Santos Dumont is actually more challenging. Runaway is way shorter and pilots must avoid Sugar Loaf when approaching or taking off.
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I was actually surprised by LaGuardia. It looks bigger on the GE than it actually is, maybe due so many runaways, something typical of US airports.
LaGuardia only has two runways, but it has a number of taxiways. LGA rarely handles anything larger than an A321, but 757s land there occasionally, so the airport needs to have taxiways large enough to accommodate. Donald Trump stored his personal 757 at LaGuardia up until he left office, so it was common to see it sitting on a taxiway if you were flying in or out of the airport any time before early 2021.

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Congonhas is more famous due that dive on the ocean of highrises, but Santos Dumont is actually more challenging. Runaway is way shorter and pilots must avoid Sugar Loaf when approaching or taking off.
Yeah, I've flown into Santos Dumont before and also done plane watching from Sugar Loaf. Sugar Loaf is awesome because it's one of the few places in the world where you can plane watch from high above the plane.
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Just a comparison:
Miami International: 131 gates
Austin-Bergstrom: 34 gates

What is Austin using that space for ? Definitely has room to grow, which it absolutely needs to. That airport (Austin) is always packed whenever I am there which makes sense with only 1 terminal and 34 gates.
It looks like they could add several 2,000'-long concourses in an Atlanta-like format between the two runways. There's an extravagant amount of land for it.

All the ancillary stuff seems to take multiples of the land is needs, and even with that there are vast unused areas.
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San Francisco International Airport: 8.13 square miles
Los Angeles International Airport: 4.6 square miles

SFO is almost twice as big as LAX? there's not much room to expand in SFO. This doesn't make sense, LAX seems much bigger and better runway configuration.
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