Atlanta's airport

Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is the busiest airport in the world, passenger-traffic wise. It handled 90 million passengers in 2008, about 25% higher than Chicago which was at #2.

That roughly translates to:
7 million passengers a month
250,000 passengers a day
10,000 passengers an hour
and 171 passengers a minute

I wanted to see how large the airport is. Here are a few satellite images (courtesy Google Maps).


There are five runways. One of the runways also passes over a road highway. Here:


The satellite image also shows aircrafts queued up for takeoff:


And a flight that's just about taking off: (Note the shadow)


Spending a few hours at the ATC tower here should be fun. :)