Originally Posted by
hans brinker
Love tossing just as much as the next guy. LHR isn't even in the top 10 by movements.
All of the airports that have more movements than LHR do so by having between 3-7 runways. Hence my comment that LHR and DXB are the busiest two runway airports in the world.
ATL has around 180,000 movements per runway, LHR 33% higher at 240,000. The seats per movement in LHR is also significantly higher, which means greater approach separation is required.