Talk:World's busiest airports by international passenger traffic

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

AVIATION This article is within the scope of the Aviation WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and task forces. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.
Aviation Portal
List This article has been rated as List-Class on the quality scale.
Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on September 24, 2005. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

This article was nominated for deletion on January 15, 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

Can anyone add the quantitative data about international passenger traffic of these airports? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.24.27.146 (talk • contribs) 21:00, 27 September 2005

Can anyone check the tables, there are some inconsistencies between 2006 and 2005, for example LHR had according to the table 60,964,323 passengers in 2005 and 46,835,753 in 2006, that could not possibly correspond to an increase of 0.9%, in the article it is said that in 2006 the number of passengers was 67.7 million which is also inconsistent with the 0.9% claim although it is also mentioned there. Is this ranking based on the total number of passengers travelling through the airport minus the number of passengers in domestic flights, and what about the international passengers taking a domestic flight in the next leg of their journey ? All this seems fairly dubious. Blastwizard 07:30, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

If you double check the tables presented, they are not full-year statistics, and do not refer to the same length of time. The %change is based on source figures.--Huaiwei 13:50, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
That's still inconsistent, 2005 has a larger number of passenger over a shorter period of time so the 0.9% do not add up, to have this increase, that would mean over 14 million passengers in LHR during September 2006 (nearly 25% of the annual traffic!). Same problem with other airports. Blastwizard 17:22, 26 January 2007 (UTC)