2018 Busiest US Facilities

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Top Ten USA Airports: (daily ops)
ORD- 903,747 (2,476)
ATL- 895,502 (2,453)
LAX- 707,833 (1,939)
DFW- 667,213 (1,828
DEN- 603,403 (1,653)
CLT- 550,013 (1,507)
LAS- 539,866 (1,479)
SFO- 470,166 (1,288
IAH- 466,740 (1,279)
JFK- 461,054 (1,263)

Top Ten TRACONs:
SCT- 2,261,004 (6,194)
N90- 1,947,790 (5,336)
NCT- 1,695,623 (4,645)
PCT- 1,396,085 (3,825)
C90- 1,290,383 (3,535)
D10- 1,248,633 (3,421)
A80- 1,213,785 (3,325)
MIA- 1,087,959 (2,981)
I90- 967,555 (2,651)
D01- 893,143 (2,447)

Top Ten Enroute with VFR advisories in total (daily traffic count):
ZTL- 3,223,771 (8,832)
ZNY- 2,723,751 (7,462)
ZJX- 2,620,657 (7,180)
ZDC- 2,599,252 (7,121)
ZMA- 2,572,008 (7,046)
ZAU- 2,508,391 (6,872)
ZFW- 2,497,781 (6,843)
ZLA- 2,485,705 (6,810)
ZOB- 2,464,054 (6,751)
ZHU- 2,406,245 (6,592)
 
SCT shouldn’t count. If you took their airspace and put it on the east coast it would stretch from DC to Boston
 
DankVectorz said:
SCT shouldn’t count. If you took their airspace and put it on the east coast it would stretch from DC to Boston
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It truly makes you think how some of these things are calculated for pay levels.
Examples:
  • CLT is 39% less busy than ORD, but they’re both 12s. CLT isn’t even an up/down anymore. The same applies to MIA.
  • How is PCT a 12? They have 8% more ops than C90 (with more than twice the airspace) and 28.5% less traffic than N90 who has less airspace.
  • How are I90 and D01 level 12s?
  • How is ZJX a level 11?
It’s time to bring back level 13...
 
Honest question, How is IAH an 11 and SFO a 10?

I don't know anything about IAH but SFO being busier and having so little space and being so close to a ton of other fairly busy airports, seems like that should be looked at.
 
Robertb said:
Top Ten USA Airports: (daily ops)
ORD- 903,747 (2,476)
ATL- 895,502 (2,453)
LAX- 707,833 (1,939)
DFW- 667,213 (1,828
DEN- 603,403 (1,653)
CLT- 550,013 (1,507)
LAS- 539,866 (1,479)
SFO- 470,166 (1,288
IAH- 466,740 (1,279)
JFK- 461,054 (1,263)

Top Ten TRACONs:
SCT- 2,261,004 (6,194)
N90- 1,947,790 (5,336)
NCT- 1,695,623 (4,645)
PCT- 1,396,085 (3,825)
C90- 1,290,383 (3,535)
D10- 1,248,633 (3,421)
A80- 1,213,785 (3,325)
MIA- 1,087,959 (2,981)
I90- 967,555 (2,651)
D01- 893,143 (2,447)

Top Ten Enroute with VFR advisories in total (daily traffic count):
ZTL- 3,223,771 (8,832)
ZNY- 2,723,751 (7,462)
ZJX- 2,620,657 (7,180)
ZDC- 2,599,252 (7,121)
ZMA- 2,572,008 (7,046)
ZAU- 2,508,391 (6,872)
ZFW- 2,497,781 (6,843)
ZLA- 2,485,705 (6,810)
ZOB- 2,464,054 (6,751)
ZHU- 2,406,245 (6,592)
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All that construction really hurt ATL numbers
 
Robertb said:
A true up/down works every position in the building. They aren’t a true up/down anymore. So they shouldn’t be in the up/down category for CI. The same applies to MIA.
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MIA and CLT have had you work tower and departure or all radar for a long time. This isn’t new.
 
Robertb said:
A true up/down works every position in the building. They aren’t a true up/down anymore. So they shouldn’t be in the up/down category for CI. The same applies to MIA.
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That's what I figured. Thanks for the explanation.

I'm guessing you still have to certify on every position though.
 
mrobs15 said:
Honest question, How is IAH an 11 and SFO a 10?

I don't know anything about IAH but SFO being busier and having so little space and being so close to a ton of other fairly busy airports, seems like that should be looked at.
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Don't know about SFO, but at IAH they land/depart on the three parallel east/west runways and push out a lot of departures on 15/33 L and R. Maybe a converging runway CI bump. They were a 12 until a few years ago.
 
DankVectorz said:
MIA and CLT have had you work tower and departure or all radar for a long time. This isn’t new.
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CLT started that roughly 5 years ago. If they’re going to be classed as an up/down, everyone should work every position. If they don’t, then they should be split like other former up/downs. Most likely, CLT would fall to a level 11 tower and separate approach and MIA would be a level 10/11 tower and the approach would be 12.
 
Robertb said:
CLT started that roughly 5 years ago. If they’re going to be classed as an up/down, everyone should work every position. If they don’t, then they should be split like other former up/downs. Most likely, CLT would fall to a level 11 tower and separate approach and MIA would be a level 10/11 tower and the approach would be 12.
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They were like that when I toured in 2011.
 

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