World's busiest airports announced

Asian and European hubs dominate ... but which airport is no. 1?

The Heathrow headache. 60.9 million interntional passengers per year, or 167,000 per day, kind of explains it.

Global aviation organization Airports Council International (ACI) has released its World Airport Traffic Report for 2010, with London, Paris and Hong Kong taking out the first three places in terms of international passenger traffic.

According to the report, worldwide airport passenger numbers increased by 6.6 percent in 2010 to 5.04 billion. Worldwide domestic traffic increased by 5.8 percent while international traffic jumped by 7.7 percent.

London's Heathrow airport remained the busiest in the world, handling over 60 million international passengers. The big mover was South Korea's Incheon, which moved into the top ten in 2010. Madrid fell out of the top 10, Incheon moved into 8th place and Tokyo dropped from 8th in 2009 to 9th.

Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport...

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... and Phuket is the 8th fastest growing airport in the world according to the article. God help all you islanders down there and so much for the beer-sodden predictions of dwindling tourist numbers on TV this time last year.

People get all excited about huge tourist numbers because of the money it brings in.Phuket will continue to get bigger and bigger regardless of all the problems down there.

Thailand is already the text book case of how to ruin a beautiful country through mass tourism and corruption. The Gulf of Thailand at the top end is already a dump with beaches smelling of rubbish and pollution.

How long before Phuket is turned into a tourist rubbish tip?

People get all excited about huge tourist numbers because of the money it brings in.Phuket will continue to get bigger and bigger regardless of all the problems down there.

Thailand is already the text book case of how to ruin a beautiful country through mass tourism and corruption. The Gulf of Thailand at the top end is already a dump with beaches smelling of rubbish and pollution.

How long before Phuket is turned into a tourist rubbish tip?

I think Spain beat Thailand on that account by more than a country mile , but hey don't let me spoil your pleasure in bashing Thailand.

Yermanee :jap:

People get all excited about huge tourist numbers because of the money it brings in.Phuket will continue to get bigger and bigger regardless of all the problems down there.

Thailand is already the text book case of how to ruin a beautiful country through mass tourism and corruption. The Gulf of Thailand at the top end is already a dump with beaches smelling of rubbish and pollution.

How long before Phuket is turned into a tourist rubbish tip?

I think Spain beat Thailand on that account by more than a country mile , but hey don't let me spoil your pleasure in bashing Thailand.

Yermanee :jap:

Nor your pleasure in bashing Spain.

what's it like Spain?