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Air Traffic Activity. The statistics reflecting relative standings with respect to air traffic and airport activity reveal a similar status. Among the ten largest population centers, the area ranks fourth in local O&D passengers with a total of 6.7 million during 1965, being preceded by new York (16.3 million), Chicago (9 million), and Los Angeles (7.8 million), and followed by San Francisco (5.7 million) and Boston (5.6 million). These cities occupy the same rank in the number of domestic enplanements. Measured by the number of such passengers on a per capita basis, Baltimore-Washington moves into second place with 1.6 million, preceded by San Francisco at 1.9 million and followed by Boston at 1.4 million. 

The airport activity statistics and the traffic survey data permit computations which give an indication of the number of passengers that may be connecting traffic. In 1965 the local O&D passengers at Baltimore and Washington were less than the number of enplaned passengers by 2.5 million. The difference between on-line originations and local O&D passengers was 2 million, indicating that this number may have been making inter-line connections, This number of total connecting passengers places Baltimore-Washington in fifth place, with Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Dallas-Forth Worth showing higher connecting volumes. The area occupies fourth place with respect to the number of inter-line connecting passengers.

While a number of other major metropolitan areas are served by more than one airport, there are only two, New York and Detroit, which