"I don't know how acurate that statistic is. I'm sure the people who work there gave it to you."
actually, the supervisor that I was talking with gave me a little booklet the "FAA Administrator's Factbook" (April 2006) which lists the top 50 airports, the busiest control towers, and the top 50 busiest Radar Approach Facilities ranked by number of instrument operations...SOCAL TRACON is listed at number 1 with 2,129, 000 operations...followed by new york at 2,066,000 and POTOMAC TRACON at 1,887,000.
Thank you for your response to the EnRoute question--I didnt realize how tricky it can get for them.
Peace, M