America's Most Crowded Airports

Forbes is out with its list of America's Most Crowded Airport. They used an interesting metric to determine this list:

                 "To determine the rankings of America’s Most Crowded Airports, we looked at the 20 
                 largest airports in the U.S. in terms of 2012 passenger traffic, and then compared that 
                 traffic with each airport’s available terminal space and gates. The final ranking is 
                 based on an equal weighting of passengers per square foot and passengers per gate."

The Ten Most Crowded Airports by passengers vs terminal space:

1.     Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson
2.     Charlotte's Douglas International 
3.     Los Angles
4.     Chicago's O'Hare
5.     Seattle-Tacoma 
6.     Las Vegas's McCarran
7.     Denver 
8.     San Francisco
9.     Dallas/Fort Worth
10.     Newark's Liberty

The list was a little surprising, but overall makes sense.  Shocking, JFK did not make the list. However, I bet JFK has the passenger traffic, but the size of the terminals there must have knocked it out of the running. 

Why this list makes sense is that most of these airports are hubs for airlines? Atlanta is Delta, Charlotte is US Airways, Chicago and Dallas is American, Denver is Frontier and Newark is the old Continental Hub.

 Does this list change your travel plans?

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