What's an International Airport?

While look something else up, I noticed that BAA claim Gatwick is the
world's sixth busiest International Airport.

I think Atlanta and Chicago tie for busiest, then Heathrow. But Dallas,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, JFK, Schipol, Tokyo, Frankfurt and several
others *feel* busier than Gatwick...

So some of these are not perhaps International Airports under BAA's
definition?
--
Roland Perry

In message <bs48uf$9ddu7$1@ID-197497.news.uni-berlin.de>, freeda
<thomas@tvonc.abelgratis.co.uk> writes
>I think Heathrow has more international flights

[1]

>than any other airport in
>the world. Atlanta and Chicago are busier, but of course have far more
>domestic flights. AFAIK, Gatwick has more international flights than any
>other single runway airport.

BAA say that Gatwick is the world's busiest single runway airport - with
no "International" qualification. I don't have a problem with that (all
the other airports I mentioned have several runways).

But it talks about Gatwick (and Heathrow) as having a certain status as
"International Airports", not "for International Flights".

[1] In any event, I think it's always measured as passenger numbers,
rather than number of flights.
--
Roland Perry