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obmar
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http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/12/13/the-worlds-largest-airport/
The World’s Largest AirportContinuing this week’s semi-theme of very large things, we present the world’s largest airport near Dammam, Saudi Arabia!
Although it’s nowhere near what I’d expect from such a grand title. Compare its empty terminal to the bustling Heathrow airport and you’d be forgiven for thinking I was making it all up.
You see, King Fahd International is the world’s largest airport by area, and at 780 km² it is bigger than the nearby country of Bahrain. There’s 698,585 people in Bahrain and they’ve still three airports!
http://googlesightseeing.com/maps...mp;ll=26.46627,49.797174&z=17
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obmar,
It's not larger than Bahrain, but it is extremely impressive ........................ and extremely vacant. |
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It is necessary during the MOnth of Hajj.
Then is is jammed with flights...
One way though. Either full coming in and empty out or
Empty in Full out.
Yes, during Haj mobilising 3Million in the season of Hajj. |
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| I guess during Hajj all normal economic rules kinda go out the window. We have a similar exodus at Thanksgiving, though it is not from everywhere to one location then back again, just everywhere to everywhere and back again. |
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| The amount of flights coming in and out during the HAjj season, like now, justifies the size of that airport. |
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In reply to a novice who was complaining about the cold, his Zen teacher asked to be shown the place that was neither hot nor cold...
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“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”
Rene Descartes quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Scientist, 1596-1650)
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