Busiest Facility

polo708 Epic Member tower

ATL is the busiest in the world by far. Nellis is a cake facility... busy yes, but canned to all hell.

sunny Newcomer ZLA

Really? Where you getting this from?

DM56 Newcomer Kandahar, Afghanistan

By a recent email I received here in Kandahar with last years AF base traffic counts (contract towers here too), Balad tower did approximately 242,000 ops last year. CERAP would have different numbers. We here in Kandahar did approximately 101,000 but are on pace for about 150-165,000 this year (tower ops).

Roddy_Piper Resident Knucklehead Vegas baby

that's not busiest in the nation (or world) type numbers. there's contract towers in the US that are busier than that. ATL and ORD did almost 1,000,000 ops last year.

ColtsATC Trusted Contributor Indy

Dude, that's 2 ops a minute, every minute, 24/7/365. Not possible. You can't put airplanes that close together year round

Nodak Rookie Valdosta, GA

I've heard the same thing about Nellis, and also that their traffic count is so high cause they count 1 for every MOA they enter/exit/cross through, which realisticly is what you should do but no one does here cause they are lazy, but 1 a/c will rack up 10-15 ops just from different MOA work. Once again just what I've heard.

Centerpuke Junior Member ZTL

Crazy, isn't it? Atlanta Center worked @ 3.4 million aircraft last year with roughly 300 million passengers flying through our airspace. That's everything in and out of Birmingham, Atlanta, Charlotte, and everything over the top. ATL has 5 runways and runs either triple arrivals or triple departures all day. The two arrival sectors on the north side are the busiest ATC sectors in the world (roughly 9,000 - 12,000 ops per day each).

Dawson Newcomer Cherry Point, NC

Balad is a center though. ATL and Heathrow are just single airport ops. If you compare almost any stateside center, balad doesnt compete.

polo708 Epic Member tower

Thats busy for a military facility, but far from the busiest. Hell Im at a random contract tower making shit pay and we did 20k more ops than that in a year. Hell, Phoenix/Mesa(Gateway) did 300k/ops. Also, like said... the top airports are closer to a million.

archie_league Junior Member Chicago

Not possible...can't put them that close together eh...as I've said before, grab a headset and come on over.

941,053 in 2006...with the fuel and economy we were down around 900,000 last year.

And unlike this Iraqi airport that is so much busier than the civilized world, this can be found on FAA.GOV.