• Averages more than 87,000 travelers every day, almost double the capacity of Citizens Bank Park, home of the Philadelphia Phillies.
• Moves more than 580,000 tons of cargo a year - equivalent to more than 580,000 Liberty Bells!
• Seven terminals, occupying 2,415,000 square feet, are nearly four times the size of Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles.
• Has more than 18,000 parking spaces. Laid end-to-end, they would extend about 54 miles, or from the Airport to the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J.
• Airport website, www.phl.org, averages 2.1 million hits each day, or more than 1,400 every minute
• Is situated on 2,357 acres (3.6 square miles), double the size of the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
• Concessions serve an average of: 360 soft pretzels per hour; 60 cheese steaks per hour; 1,000 cups of coffee per hour; 225 slices of pizza per hour; 700 bottles of beer per hour.
• Has 140 rocking chairs located throughout the terminal buildings.
• Some 27,000 miles of toilet paper is used at PHL in a year - enough to circle the Earth at the equator and then some.
• Has more than 50,000 light bulbs in public spaces - enough to light more than 1,600 homes.
• Consumes enough electrical power in one day to power 28,800 residential homes for a day, or one home for more than 78 years.
• Obtains 13,000 megawatt hours per year of clean, wind-generated electrical power. This offsets 14 million pounds of carbon dioxide that would otherwise be produced.
• Maintains 1 million square feet of terrazzo; 200,000 square feet of carpet; and 1 million square feet of glass.
• Some 10,000 gallons of paint are applied to the PHL complex in a year, triple the amount needed to paint the surface of Hoover Dam.
• Removes 2.8 million pounds of garbage in a year.
• Maintains 1,000 acres of grass and 32 million square feet of pavement.
• Has 8 melters that can each dissolve 250 tons or a total of 4 million pounds of snow in an hour.

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