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To: t4texas who wrote (170505)7/9/2012 1:18:47 PM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 206326
 
By number of passengers Worldwide
Rank Airport 1 Airport 2 Passengers
(in millions, 2011)
1 Seoul-Gimpo Airport Jeju International Airport 9.9
2 Congonhas-São Paulo Airport Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport 7.6+
3 Tokyo International Airport Osaka International Airport 7.5
4 Tokyo International Airport Sapporo-New Chitose Airport 7.5
5 Sydney Airport Melbourne Airport 7
6 Tokyo International Airport Fukuoka Airport 6.6+
7 Beijing Capital International Airport Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport 6.6+
8 Hong Kong International Airport Taoyuan International Airport 6.2+
9 OR Tambo International Airport Cape Town International Airport 4.5
10 Mumbai-Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport Delhi-Indira Gandhi Airport 4.3+

Data from Amadeus ( rounded by The Economist) [1]

Congonhas is like an aircraft carrier. One land, park, another land. And there is queue apparoaching anf taking off-



To: t4texas who wrote (170505)7/9/2012 1:29:06 PM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 206326
 
I agree that high speed trains will not end shuttle Rio - S. Paulo. Problem is that the system would not have clogged as it is now if we had high speed trains Rio - S. Paulo along the *Paraiba Valley corridor.

*Paraiba Valley corridor.
Along 400Km there is the industrial area: Volta Redonda, Barra Mansa, Resende (in Rio State) and São José dos Campos, Taubaté, Jacarei, Lorena, Pindamonhangaba, Cruzeiro and Gurantingueta (in São Paulo State)