The True Scale of the World's Largest Airports

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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024

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  • @mhyl02
    @mhyl02 3 года назад +11116

    I am from Denmark, and here we do not use Disneyland as a measurement unit, as this is an imperial unit. We use Legoland, as this is the official SI-unit for measuring airport size.

    • @ScumfuckMcDoucheface
      @ScumfuckMcDoucheface 3 года назад +107

      hahaha =) awesome.

    • @fernandoroberts3591
      @fernandoroberts3591 3 года назад +248

      In Brazil they use Football Fields to measure everything

    • @hpsauce1078
      @hpsauce1078 3 года назад +229

      What is the conversion rate from Disneylands to Legolands?

    • @Vanatice
      @Vanatice 3 года назад +191

      @@hpsauce1078 One Disneyland is 2,857 Legolands!

    • @mhyl02
      @mhyl02 3 года назад +162

      @@hpsauce1078 You multiply Legoland by 1,85 Pixars

  • @Richie_P
    @Richie_P 3 года назад +2629

    "We've compared them to EASILY RELATABLE references to reveal their actual size." Easily relatable like pentagons and Antonov an-225s.

    • @Captainllama
      @Captainllama 3 года назад +126

      Agreed, this video largely fails its good intentions. A particularly illustrative example is at 5:53. We are shown an aerial view of King Fahd International airport with its former perimeter marked and, instead of the obvious approach of superimposing its present perimeter for comparison, the image dissolves and is replaced by the current perimeter at different magnification. The two images isolated from each other, without reference points, and at different magnification are impossible to compare which even is the larger let alone by how much.

    • @s1nnocense
      @s1nnocense 3 года назад +53

      Yeah, like how would i have any idea about the size of the pentagon?

    • @codec862
      @codec862 3 года назад +38

      @@s1nnocense Wait, you're not casually taking tours of a highly restricted building? _Whaaaaaat???_

    • @soaringvulture
      @soaringvulture 3 года назад +6

      @@s1nnocense It's the same size as Apple headquarters.

    • @Buizerd88
      @Buizerd88 3 года назад +21

      Easily relatable :D as a person who has never been to the USA, its hard to relate to the Disney world size, or the size in manhatten passed the central park, or the golde gate bridge.... or basically any other measurement they used :d

  • @mrkapchi5819
    @mrkapchi5819 3 года назад +8696

    Just as I was getting used to 'football fields' units, then boom! 2.3 pentagons.

    • @_blank-_
      @_blank-_ 3 года назад +422

      Planes and Pentagons, that's topical 😳

    • @RizkT511
      @RizkT511 3 года назад +302

      When the football size unit is too mainstream it's time to use pentagon unit

    • @user-ou7wt3lx8m
      @user-ou7wt3lx8m 3 года назад +6

      LKMAKOAKMAKSKM

    • @shukriwafiq5220
      @shukriwafiq5220 3 года назад +80

      or we use Wembley stadium

    • @jascollinscork
      @jascollinscork 3 года назад +5

      👍🏻😂😂😂

  • @KeshavChugh
    @KeshavChugh 3 года назад +370

    Singapore Changi might not be the biggest, but it is the best experience I've had in an airport. It's like a tourist destination on its own.

    • @aksel8291
      @aksel8291 2 года назад +4

      Yes I heard exactly the same

    • @LexlutherVII
      @LexlutherVII 11 месяцев назад +1

      istanbul has the best and biggest airport in the world, this list is BS

    • @arpamn3507
      @arpamn3507 10 месяцев назад +11

      @@LexlutherVIIclearly you are too lol😂

    • @LexlutherVII
      @LexlutherVII 10 месяцев назад

      @@arpamn3507 How???

    • @LexlutherVII
      @LexlutherVII 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@arpamn3507 I have been to all those Airports and Frankly speaking they don't come close to The new airport in Istanbul, it's not my opinion but a Logical fact,

  • @pepabacon8873
    @pepabacon8873 3 года назад +3752

    “Size is important but it’s what you do with it” I see you b1m

    • @tonelsen
      @tonelsen 3 года назад +60

      I find it strange how your comment has 500+ likes, yet no replies before mine.

    • @teekay3983
      @teekay3983 3 года назад +23

      *that matters 😊

    • @AmsaAce
      @AmsaAce 3 года назад +30

      I thought it was about "girth", but ok ...

    • @krashd
      @krashd 3 года назад +4

      @@AmsaAce The dog from Dark Crystal?

    • @susieq2334
      @susieq2334 3 года назад +39

      I knew someone had to bring this up🤣🤣🤣

  • @ironbeagle1610
    @ironbeagle1610 2 года назад +112

    I grew up near Denver and always thought DIA was a fairly normal aiport. I now realize that it is one of the biggest airports in the world. its absolutely crazy how big it is. over half the flights are in terminals completely separate from the main building. you have to take a train to get there. while not unique to Denver, it still blows my mind. the fact that security is in a massive tent just because we can is rediculous. even outside of the official grounds of the airport there are parking services. private hangars, and tons of other things. its pretty crazy what humans have built just so that we can get from 1 place to another in a few hours.
    Not to mention the truly gargantuan network of tunnels that network the entire thing together.

    • @yesnoyesnoyesnoyesnookmaybe
      @yesnoyesnoyesnoyesnookmaybe Год назад +1

      Same I only recently found out the Dammam airport is the biggest in the world (I live in Dammam)

    • @iactiv6274
      @iactiv6274 Год назад +3

      Nice profile pic

    • @andrewdiamond2697
      @andrewdiamond2697 Год назад +4

      Denver is hugely inefficient as a result. Too much distance from aircraft to baggage claim. Too long of a bus ride from baggage claim to car rental. And way too long of a line for security. Denver is only 30 years old and it's horribly designed, because it's a pain-in-the-ass to use as a passenger.

    • @crisissocoylike446
      @crisissocoylike446 Год назад +1

      ​@@andrewdiamond2697I blame it on lazy civil engineering philosophy

    • @Yeaboy23
      @Yeaboy23 11 месяцев назад

      I also still live in Denver and the airport might be cursed.

  • @martinschiller667
    @martinschiller667 3 года назад +334

    i'm in awe of all these "take off" and "flight" puns

  • @MikeGuarino69
    @MikeGuarino69 2 года назад +5

    "We're gonna put these sizes you can't easily comprehend into different units that you definitely can't comprehend"

  • @ntyang88
    @ntyang88 3 года назад +308

    The longest runway is the one in Fast and Furious 6 🤣

    • @dexterwestin3747
      @dexterwestin3747 3 года назад +5

      Lmao - true

    • @mehere8038
      @mehere8038 3 года назад +4

      Actually Australia has longer, cause the flying doctors just land on any outback road & some of them are thousands of kms long & take 5 days of non-stop driving to get end to end :P

    • @shanaz8089
      @shanaz8089 3 года назад

      Trabzon

    • @jollyomeatLA
      @jollyomeatLA 3 года назад +8

      @@mehere8038 bruh why you had to intentionally look dumb even though ik you got the reference joke?

    • @haechiwr
      @haechiwr 3 года назад +1

      @@mehere8038 thx for ruining the joke

  • @brendenfriers9668
    @brendenfriers9668 3 года назад +8

    Memphis's Fedex hub is massive it connects our medium sized city to cities like Shanghai, Osaka, Dubai, Paris, Milan, Cologne

  • @pearpenguin
    @pearpenguin 3 года назад +255

    Please don't send every Brit on holiday at the same time. We don't have enough alcohol for that.

    • @cinegraphics
      @cinegraphics 3 года назад +6

      Also, when you returned from the holidays, all your apartments and houses
      would be occupied by people from your former colonies.

    • @davidlang1125
      @davidlang1125 3 года назад +3

      And there’s not enough shorts and loud Hawaian shirts in the stores for every Brit going on vacation.

  • @elijahmasquelier1238
    @elijahmasquelier1238 3 года назад +69

    you can't really claim to have a 700 sq km airport when you're only using less than 5% of that area as an airport lol

    • @mengsiongkheng113
      @mengsiongkheng113 3 года назад +2

      Exactly, what an inefficient use of land.

    • @albertovasquez9661
      @albertovasquez9661 3 года назад +1

      exact!! they used actual 42sq km. is. a. waste.

    • @mlooky1221
      @mlooky1221 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@mengsiongkheng113 you are acting like there is anything built around that 700 km sized airport for it to be inefficient. it's in the middle of the desert anyways and an hour away from the nearest city.

    • @SFAvgeek
      @SFAvgeek 5 месяцев назад

      Yh king Fahd airport is stupid lol

  • @PhlyDaily
    @PhlyDaily 3 года назад +907

    Love this channel!!

    • @coolasnubben463
      @coolasnubben463 3 года назад +52

      never thought i would find you here

    • @user-ou7wt3lx8m
      @user-ou7wt3lx8m 3 года назад +2

      @@coolasnubben463 Do you actually watch him or just say that? Haven't heard of him b4 and then a few people come out and say OM- ok im going to stop before people get mad at me since snowflakes find a way to argue with everything

    • @WanderTheNomad
      @WanderTheNomad 3 года назад +8

      @@user-ou7wt3lx8m wow, 1 day old channel

    • @user-ou7wt3lx8m
      @user-ou7wt3lx8m 3 года назад

      @@WanderTheNomad my other account got banned lol for being rude. you can tell im just a **********

    • @coolasnubben463
      @coolasnubben463 3 года назад

      @@user-ou7wt3lx8m watch him from time to time

  • @johann.desouza
    @johann.desouza 3 года назад +2

    B1M: Starts with amazing enthusiasm
    Also B1M: Shows power being turned down (0:57)

  • @jakobsol3587
    @jakobsol3587 3 года назад +567

    This channel has to be RUclipss perfect example of quality over quantity, these videos are absolutely amazing and very interesting!

    • @FastSloth87
      @FastSloth87 3 года назад +8

      I see you never watched a Mustard video.

    • @youman5079
      @youman5079 3 года назад

      Agreed

    • @avanishawade
      @avanishawade 3 года назад +10

      How can we not mention Kurgzesagt? Quality and Kurgzesagt are synonyms....

    • @uriah9638
      @uriah9638 3 года назад +1

      They post a video every week it seems like...they also care about quantity

    • @co5287
      @co5287 2 года назад +1

      The opposite, this video should have been one minute long, to many nonsense unit comparisons.

  • @Sqwirrl
    @Sqwirrl Год назад +2

    "but while size is important, it's what you do with it that really matters"

  • @sutejocandi
    @sutejocandi 3 года назад +158

    2:50 “while size is important, its what you do with it really matters”

    • @easportsitsallthesame5475
      @easportsitsallthesame5475 3 года назад +2

      @Harry Groundwater it is inevitable

    • @xx4884xx
      @xx4884xx 3 года назад +4

      7 inch gang

    • @kerelasfinest4496
      @kerelasfinest4496 3 года назад +1

      7 inch gang - short Indian man balding but smart looking for two Filipino wives that don’t speak English

    • @fitfirst4468
      @fitfirst4468 3 года назад +1

      And that's what your mother said Joe. LMAO

    • @heinuchung8680
      @heinuchung8680 3 года назад

      @@kerelasfinest4496 lol

  • @pad9x
    @pad9x 3 года назад +12

    fun fact: John Travolta is actually a flying enthusiast, so it makes perfect sense for him to make a surprise cameo here 😂

  • @crazybkallday
    @crazybkallday 3 года назад +111

    I’m absolutely happy that this program is still going strong keep doing your thing I love this channel

  • @baxterismyyoutubename5077
    @baxterismyyoutubename5077 3 года назад +17

    Your voice sounds like so professional and a pleasant to hear for my ears.

  • @JRPGGUY
    @JRPGGUY 3 года назад +194

    I live in ATL and the airport is just as big as our downtown.

    • @pavelow235
      @pavelow235 3 года назад +7

      Considering downtowns are supposed to be "vertical" seems like your comment should be the other way around.

    • @kyleaugustine6886
      @kyleaugustine6886 3 года назад +3

      I'm in ATL as well, I can confirm this statement.

    • @jiechaowang5960
      @jiechaowang5960 3 года назад +7

      I lived in ATL, and its downtown is not very big

    • @hint0122
      @hint0122 3 года назад +6

      Atlanta is the airport

    • @mikenewtonninja9379
      @mikenewtonninja9379 3 года назад +3

      @@hint0122 no, it's a mythical city swallowed by the sea!

  • @joshuahart5651
    @joshuahart5651 3 года назад +14

    This video is so detailed and crucial that NO OTHER RUclips CHANNEL has made a video that covers this many airports in such detail. Thank you B1M.

    • @TheB1M
      @TheB1M  3 года назад +2

      Thank you so much!

    • @russellcruickshank3168
      @russellcruickshank3168 3 года назад

      @@TheB1M just hoping you can correct the spelling of Stansted Airport. Stanstead is a town in Quebec, Canada. Stansted is the airport north of London. Great work otherwise.

  • @TheB1M
    @TheB1M  3 года назад +529

    TOO MANY PUNS so we're sticking everything we can think of in one comment 😂✈️
    Well this is taking-off
    This video is flying
    Please don't stop watching this video until it's come to a complete stop
    We hope this leaves you feeling sky high
    Make sure your armrests are down for this one
    Now boarding at Gate 107B, a BANGING VIDEO

    • @user-ou7wt3lx8m
      @user-ou7wt3lx8m 3 года назад +4

      i got the last line banging

    • @benwatts5219
      @benwatts5219 3 года назад +9

      Size is important but it is what you do with it.

    • @PeterDuffII
      @PeterDuffII 3 года назад +12

      The B1M is embracing the memes and puns of typical educational youtubers on this platform and I am here for it.

    • @ethanpet113
      @ethanpet113 3 года назад +5

      i liked the part where you claimed the size would be compared to familiar landmarks and then chose a small number of places only a few people in the world have an adequate frame of reference for. Very clever joke.

    • @jakehandley3366
      @jakehandley3366 3 года назад +5

      Landed at gate B1M for another great video

  • @1jidion
    @1jidion 2 года назад +1

    this video really makes me appreciate working at an airport and seeing different people every day,

  • @muhammadrabiumusa8390
    @muhammadrabiumusa8390 3 года назад +46

    “While size is important it is what you do that really matters”
    B1M 2021

  • @TheLiamster
    @TheLiamster 3 года назад +6

    1:24 I love how there is a confused John Travolta in the airport.

    • @westrim
      @westrim 3 года назад

      I've seen him used that way by at least a dozen channels, but I hardly expected to see him on B1M!

  • @ChunkySalsa_BSU
    @ChunkySalsa_BSU 3 года назад +54

    This feels like the engineering videos I used to watch on TV before. I'm loving this!

    • @amblincork
      @amblincork 3 года назад

      A billion Chinese....

  • @jimcook8241
    @jimcook8241 2 года назад +1

    Back in the good old days. Miss em.

  • @TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs
    @TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs 3 года назад +647

    Just wanted to say Washington Dulles Airport is one of my least favorite airports in the world. I'm sure there are worse but that aiport is just is so bad
    😖

    • @Nelsonwmj
      @Nelsonwmj 3 года назад +85

      I know. Land of the free, and yet when I go to Washington Dulles it doesn't even have a McDonalds?!
      Also, which country even still uses AEROBUSES from the 70s to deplane passengers?!

    • @sallmandar1027
      @sallmandar1027 3 года назад +7

      Nice to see you here!

    • @PhlyDaily
      @PhlyDaily 3 года назад +34

      IRON i love youuu

    • @Nelsonwmj
      @Nelsonwmj 3 года назад +12

      @@PhlyDaily Ohhhhhhhh PHLY IS HERE ALL RISE FOR THE WAR THUNDER DADDY!

    • @user-ou7wt3lx8m
      @user-ou7wt3lx8m 3 года назад +3

      you can say it was dull

  • @tal4976
    @tal4976 3 года назад +2

    Your editing is insane man. How do you keep getting better and better????????

  • @senthilkumaran7914
    @senthilkumaran7914 3 года назад +103

    I love this channel and Tomorrow’s Build so much I can’t even explain it

    • @tjs200
      @tjs200 3 года назад +1

      do you love them because of their size, or what they do with it?

    • @senthilkumaran7914
      @senthilkumaran7914 3 года назад +1

      @@tjs200 I mean… I love what they do with it regardless, but size is always a bonus 🤣

  • @iwasborn8470
    @iwasborn8470 3 года назад +6

    man's just called football by it's proper name, respect.

    • @fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888
      @fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888 3 года назад +1

      "Your man"? Congrats, hope you have a happy life together.

  • @haziqanuar01
    @haziqanuar01 3 года назад +36

    The best infotainment youtube channel ever !✨

    • @user-ou7wt3lx8m
      @user-ou7wt3lx8m 3 года назад

      i have infotainments too tbh

    • @LimeDragonBoi
      @LimeDragonBoi 3 года назад

      @@user-ou7wt3lx8m ?_?

    • @user-ou7wt3lx8m
      @user-ou7wt3lx8m 3 года назад

      @@LimeDragonBoi what? never heard of infotainments? God, millenials.

  • @99certain45
    @99certain45 2 года назад +33

    Great video, but you forgot to talk about Dallas-Ft.Worth.
    For those who don't know, DFW encompasses 69.6 square kilometers, being just a tad smaller than Istanbul, and nearly double the size of Dubai in terms of land area. DFW has a grand total of seven runways, and is also the 3rd busiest airport in the world in terms of total aircraft movements, and 4th in the world for passenger traffic. The airport is literally so big that it sprawls across six towns, and utilizes a 8km long rail system for moving passengers between gates.
    Needless to say, everything's bigger in Texas.

    • @hiiii820
      @hiiii820 2 года назад +4

      Also American Airlines has around 85% of those flights! It’s a total fortress hub

    • @TheCrewExpendable
      @TheCrewExpendable 2 года назад +1

      DFW also charges you just to enter the property. That’s right, you have to pay a toll to drive through (yeah it’s so big you drive “through” it, not “to” it), even if you are just dropping someone off at the terminal and never parking.
      Love Field is more pleasant, but it’s mostly Southwest Airlines flights and the terminal can get rather crowded with people these days. The need more gates but are largely prohibited from expanding (originally this prohibition was to give DFW a handicap and allow it to grow as an airport. Love Field predates DFW but the metroplex needed another airport).

    • @davidwells7509
      @davidwells7509 2 года назад +4

      @@TheCrewExpendable "DFW also charges you just to enter the property. That’s right, you have to pay a toll to drive through"
      My theory is that they do that to discourage people from using International Parkway as a shortcut, which could result in constant backups and screw with the operations of the airport.

  • @josesousa6428
    @josesousa6428 3 года назад +28

    2:50 this is actually a good take
    Both when you are talking about airports and when you are talking about your Boeing 747

  • @harrikangur
    @harrikangur 3 года назад +15

    - "Enough capacity to send every Brit on an overseas holiday three times over."
    - Please don't.
    Thank you. Rest of the world.

  • @Djarnor
    @Djarnor 3 года назад +53

    "Compare them to easily relatable references" "2.3 Pentagon's" Ah yes of course, I as a non-american now have SUCH a good idea about it's size. Thank you so much for putting some REAL units and not using those silly made up metric numbers

    • @nekrugderzweite8298
      @nekrugderzweite8298 3 года назад +1

      Same :(

    • @zachjacobs9917
      @zachjacobs9917 3 года назад +2

      As an American I don’t even know what the fuck these measurements are.
      “From New York to Harlem”
      “The size of Manhattan”

    • @josesousa6428
      @josesousa6428 3 года назад +3

      U were lucky he didn't use football fields

    • @kushal4956
      @kushal4956 3 года назад +1

      he isn't american n i don't think even americans can visualize 2.3 pentagons

    • @ScumfuckMcDoucheface
      @ScumfuckMcDoucheface 3 года назад

      hahaha and then he uses Antonovs?! haha

  • @phantasma6406
    @phantasma6406 3 года назад +3

    Huge airports sound really cool until your late for a flight and have to get to a different terminal on the other side of the airport

  • @ihabammoury2879
    @ihabammoury2879 3 года назад +69

    The two themes that i really like them, Architecture and Aviation (Airports), in one video, love it 👍

  • @Kragatar
    @Kragatar 3 года назад +3

    If you think about those numbers of passengers all being up in the sky at once, it's a pretty astounding image.

  • @Agent44996
    @Agent44996 3 года назад +25

    I am an aviation enthusiast as well as an engineering and architecture enthusiast so this was the perfect video for me!

    • @jony4t
      @jony4t 2 года назад

      Bot

    • @Agent44996
      @Agent44996 2 года назад

      @@jony4t You think I’m a bot? That video was an interesting one for me because I am the above mentioned enthusiast.

  • @phantom5185
    @phantom5185 2 года назад

    His videos are the very
    'Best" is better than anything online. Thumbs Up...

  • @jameslees7103
    @jameslees7103 3 года назад +14

    Watching this channel grow has been amazing!
    Literally documentary quality at this point

  • @westernaustralia_
    @westernaustralia_ 9 месяцев назад +1

    exactly what I was expecting, big.

  • @wiraydh
    @wiraydh 3 года назад +140

    Yeah, the length of that runway is impressive, but still not comparable to the infamous infinite runway from fast and furious 6
    Interesting video as always!

    • @neeljavia2965
      @neeljavia2965 3 года назад +23

      Because family was involved 💪

    • @wiraydh
      @wiraydh 3 года назад +14

      @@neeljavia2965 and nothing's stronger than family💪

    • @neeljavia2965
      @neeljavia2965 3 года назад

      @@wiraydh Yes.
      Family forever.

    • @Centre14
      @Centre14 2 года назад +3

      who needs runways when you've got family🤷🏽‍♂️

  • @chevaliersan5357
    @chevaliersan5357 3 года назад +3

    "In 2019, the LAST normal year...". I felt it...

  • @JS-pb6gb
    @JS-pb6gb 3 года назад +16

    That was amazing, I love going on google earth and seeing how big airports really are. Truly mind boggling

  • @dailyrevs1320
    @dailyrevs1320 3 года назад +4

    I used to watch a lot of documentaries on Discovery channel back when cable tv was a thing. I gotta say, this video was at that level of quality and production!! Gave me flashbacks of my childhood!! Great job and thank you!!

  • @Gabrielsplaytime
    @Gabrielsplaytime 2 года назад +4

    So how many bananas can fit in the largest airport?

  • @davetv4705
    @davetv4705 3 года назад +2

    I click on the LIKE button even before watching because B1M never disappoints. Great video!

  • @CarlFernandes
    @CarlFernandes 3 года назад +4

    this channel is so good. why is construction so fascinating?

  • @PomitusTV
    @PomitusTV 2 года назад

    I was on Munich, Detroit, Dallas Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Qatar within 2 Weeks what a hell of a trip

  • @TonyTheYouTuba
    @TonyTheYouTuba 3 года назад +18

    Sam from Wendover stops and sniffs the air. His eyes narrow…

  • @liamashurst9793
    @liamashurst9793 2 года назад +1

    "But while size is important, its what you do with it that really matters"

  • @wildone8397
    @wildone8397 2 года назад +4

    I'm not Turkish, I'm an Aussie, so it's not like I'm loyal to that city or anything lol, I just like the facts & big airports. And you're correct, Istanbul is the biggest terminal building under one roof. People keep saying its the new Beijing Daxing airport. They're both huge, but I always want to see modern bigger and BIGGEST Airports. And yeah a few times, travelling, I really just wanted to see the airport then other things in that city lol. Look forward to seeing those 2 one day..

    • @wildone8397
      @wildone8397 2 года назад

      @@kenankenan8899 Thankyou 🙂

  • @gg41r
    @gg41r 3 года назад +3

    I just love Airports. This video was made for me. I have been fascinated by Airports since i was a wee lad. If i had a car, id visit the local airport more.

  • @osho6158
    @osho6158 3 года назад +12

    The choice of music, the different compilations of sites on this video and the quality are all dope👍🏾. Bravo👏🏾🏆

  • @dars1816
    @dars1816 3 года назад

    B1M calms my mind. Thanks for being around

  • @supingo3339
    @supingo3339 3 года назад +16

    Video suggestion: true scale of the biggest ports

  • @emanthegman9511
    @emanthegman9511 3 года назад +2

    "While size is important its what you do with it that really matters".... couldn't agree more B1M

  • @sohamshukla9793
    @sohamshukla9793 3 года назад +11

    The B1M is our largest airport of high flying amazing construction videos! 🙌

  • @JulianFoley
    @JulianFoley 3 года назад +1

    Such breathless, boyish awe: “Today, they’re like mini-cities - with massive terminals, control towers, multiple runways, hotels, shops, car parks, maintenance hangars, logistics facilities - and even an airport!” (Acknowledgement to the BBC's “People Like Us”)

  • @degrawjb
    @degrawjb 3 года назад +4

    Opening shot is from PDX! My personal favorite airport ever. Probably just some stock footage, but still cool that it's featured in a B1M video.

  • @BobSmith-tb7rw
    @BobSmith-tb7rw 3 года назад +2

    Dallas airport being twice of the size of Manhattan is something I can’t comprehend

  • @Hryanw
    @Hryanw 3 года назад +4

    Please do a video on Denver’s airport since it was the last major U.S. airport built from the ground up and how its going through a big renovation

  • @siphotheguy1870
    @siphotheguy1870 3 года назад +86

    The best airport I have seen is Doha. I was running through it to catch my connecting flight thinking, "Wow! How nice it would be if I actually had time to walk around and explore". It's always a bummer getting home to the UK because we have some pretty grey and grim airports. It's like the UK decided to compete with the US to see who could have the most depressing airports. I guess that's the price you pay for living in a country that developed it's aviation industry ahead of everyone else. The UK still has a long way to go in developing airports as horrible as JFK and Newark however so things are not all bad :)

    • @jbloomfield44
      @jbloomfield44 2 года назад +10

      You need to try LAX if you want to see horrible and depressing.....just try the security check in area at Terminal 4....was designed by a blind guy whilst having a seizure....

    • @mrchocolatebean8878
      @mrchocolatebean8878 2 года назад +6

      @@jbloomfield44 i guess the designer was lax

    • @kitkong5075
      @kitkong5075 2 года назад

      That’s why they have “Foster grey” in Hong Kong
      Norman Foster was British

    • @ganapathysooraj48
      @ganapathysooraj48 2 года назад +1

      Yea. I've been to a few airports myself and I can definitely say that Qatar has one of the best airports.

    • @MrRicky4309
      @MrRicky4309 2 года назад +1

      The best airport belongs in Asia, not America 😆

  • @thegamingteen44mc5
    @thegamingteen44mc5 3 года назад +6

    Well, you guys really took to the skies with this one. Congrats

  • @ralfoide
    @ralfoide Год назад

    It's intriguing that the video thumbnail clearly shows the San Francisco SFO airport, which is not at all in the list of airports in the documentary.

  • @matthijs3134
    @matthijs3134 2 года назад +2

    Always high quality videos and cool facts! Keep up the goods!

  • @theshadowman1398
    @theshadowman1398 3 года назад +1

    The airport that truly felt massive was Hong Kong. Bloody hell that terminal is big

  • @y337
    @y337 3 года назад +6

    Nice touch including SFO in the thumbnail, nothing record breaking about it just an aesthetically nice airport

    • @xraymind
      @xraymind 3 года назад +1

      Also by building the BART extension and the AirTrain, it has reduced so much car traffic at the the airport. It's make a trip San Francisco just much nicer.

    • @krishrajan7484
      @krishrajan7484 9 месяцев назад

      It’s a beautiful airport inside as well. There are so many cool art exhibits inside that you can look at before your flight.

  • @johniii8147
    @johniii8147 2 года назад +2

    Size is important, but it's what you do with it that really matters. Well said well said.

  • @billblackwell675
    @billblackwell675 3 года назад +3

    I've been in Houston Intercontinental and O'HARA , and I couldn't believe how huge those 2 airports are

  • @LIVE_Concerts_STL
    @LIVE_Concerts_STL 3 года назад +2

    Im so infatuated with Aviation. i literally could have watched this for hours.

  • @FurryEskimo
    @FurryEskimo 3 года назад +9

    These size comparisons are ridiculous, this is why Americans are known for unconventional measuring comparisons!

  • @kevinbourke7800
    @kevinbourke7800 2 года назад +12

    Interesting and digestible summary! Military aviation non-trivia: the F-18 at 5:38 is Canadian vice American; we’re the only ones that use the inverted cockpit silhouette paint job ( or the roundel with a maple leaf in it…). Keep up the great work!

  • @MrLou345
    @MrLou345 2 года назад +8

    I've been to Turkey's Istanbul airport, and It's a massive mall that's an airport, is the best way to describe it. I had a 7 hr layover going to Dubai and I just walked and walked and walked around it. It's beautiful and BIG!

    • @emircanozad914
      @emircanozad914 2 года назад

      Now, there can be even A380's flying to Dubai by Emirates.

  • @Bibouchka77
    @Bibouchka77 Год назад

    2:50 That's what he said.
    ("But while size is important, it's what you do with it, that really matter")

  • @galewhiteman2047
    @galewhiteman2047 3 года назад +7

    You never fail to give us interesting content. Since I do fly, I found this very interesting. Yay…we are getting back to flying!! Stay safe.

  • @szymoncedzik1989
    @szymoncedzik1989 3 года назад

    This is my favorite channel on RUclips

  • @philipchai9107
    @philipchai9107 3 года назад +5

    The success of an airport is a reflection of how well the country is doing.

  • @dashknow5082
    @dashknow5082 7 месяцев назад +1

    This video start by measuring using metric, then go American, football fields and pentagons

  • @007supertime
    @007supertime 3 года назад +3

    Istanbul Airport is one of the most fantastic airport I have ever seen I been 22 countries biggest airports from Hong Kong to Dubai, but nothing like Istanbul, quality of building material and architecture and design it is superb

    • @jarrac
      @jarrac 3 года назад

      It’s a very bad airport design because of the large distances between the checkin/gates/passport control. I walk them weekly and it’s terrible especially when crowded

    • @wildone8397
      @wildone8397 2 года назад +2

      @@jarrac That's what's good about it. It's FASCINATING how big it is!!!

    • @jarrac
      @jarrac 2 года назад

      @@wildone8397 nothing fascinating about walking so far to get from point A to point B. It’s really difficult for older people and families with young kids. Not for for purpose

    • @mistalion1
      @mistalion1 9 месяцев назад

      @@jarrac dont worry! there are treadmill systems everywhere inside

  • @valblome4913
    @valblome4913 3 года назад +1

    I want to point everyone to the Colorado county map. Denver is this little squiggle around the city, with a meandering tail to the northeast, and then a giant blob where the airport is. Fascinating geography which really puts the airport into scale.

  • @bigj3508
    @bigj3508 3 года назад +9

    I've always felt magical going to an airport while I'm traveling. They really are like their own little cities or landmarks. Who wants to go on an airport holiday with me? :)

  • @Bzrzerk
    @Bzrzerk 2 года назад

    “While size is important, it’s what you do with it that really matters”

  • @howtonoshtdoit5192
    @howtonoshtdoit5192 3 года назад +6

    Thanks for all of the great, informative content! Love this channel

  • @HigherQualityUploads
    @HigherQualityUploads 3 года назад +1

    My city's airport is technically the third largest in the US, but 6k acres are set aside for environmental protection :)

  • @tudorjason
    @tudorjason 2 года назад +8

    Despite the size of both terminals in Mecca and Dubai, respectively; the Everett Boeing Plant building in Everett, WA still has the most usable space and has the largest volume under one roof in the world.

  • @jazzybeardancer
    @jazzybeardancer 2 года назад +1

    It’s crazy to think of where people are vs the runways for traveling at airports

  • @Max88FR
    @Max88FR 3 года назад +7

    1:23, best implementation ever, so unexpected to see that meme on the B1M video, i laught so hard ! Awesome video !

  • @coolundbidda7611
    @coolundbidda7611 3 года назад

    The John Travolta edit was amazing :D

  • @Worldfamoustrucker
    @Worldfamoustrucker 3 года назад +3

    such great content! huge fan, always excited to see the next video! thanks guys

  • @LithicForm
    @LithicForm 3 года назад +1

    You're missing the runway used by Dom Toretto and his Family. That one is 28.82 miles long, or 46.38 km.

  • @eustache_dauger
    @eustache_dauger 3 года назад +20

    0:05 2019 indeed was the last normal year, so far

  • @dontbeafraidimhere5421
    @dontbeafraidimhere5421 3 года назад +2

    ಯಾವ್ದು ಎಷ್ಟುದ್ದನೇ ಇರ್ಲಿ ಯಾವ್ದು ಎಷ್ಟೇ ಫೇಮಸ್ ಇರ್ಲಿ ನನ್ಗೆ ಇಷ್ಟವಾದ ಏರ್ಪೋರ್ಟ್ ಮಾತ್ರ "ಕೆಂಪೇಗೌಡ ವಿಮಾನ ನಿಲ್ದಾಣ" 😌❤️

  • @rikumoi3136
    @rikumoi3136 2 года назад +3

    If you have an option, avoid int'l air travel via these mega airports. The international connections from small "local airports" are often amazing.

  • @msbgone
    @msbgone 3 года назад +2

    What about Chicago O'Hare and their expansion in process. Also other future expansions would be interesting. Great vid, thanks!

  • @cassius_eu5970
    @cassius_eu5970 3 года назад +4

    I feel like such videos should be more international. Your points of comparison were: the Pentagon, Disneyland in California, the Golden Gate Bridge, Manhattan, an area of London/Wembley Stadium, and the distance of Rockefeller Centre to Harlem.
    So 5 of the points of comparison were in the US and 2 were in the UK. The video could have been more illustrative if it used sights from around the world rather than just from 2 countries.

  • @Lukas-qf2uh
    @Lukas-qf2uh 3 года назад +2

    I literally wrote one of my college essays on how impressive I found airports