Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport

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Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (IATA: ATL, ICAO: KATL, FAA LID: ATL), also known as Atlanta Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport, Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield, Hartsfield–Jackson and, formerly, as the Atlanta Municipal Airport, is the primary international airport serving Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The airport is located 10 mi (16 km) south of the Downtown Atlanta district. It is named after former Atlanta mayors William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson.^[2][3] ATL covers 4,700 acres (1,900 ha) of land and has five parallel runways.^[4][3][5] Hartsfield-Jackson has been the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998, except when it briefly lost its title in 2020 due to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States but regained it in 2021.

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
IATA: ATL ICAO: KATL FAA LID: ATL WMO: 72219
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Atlanta Department of Aviation
Serves	Atlanta metropolitan area
Location	Unincorporated areas of Clayton county; also Atlanta, College Park, and Hapeville in Fulton County, Georgia, United States
Opened	September 15, 1926; 96 years ago (1926-09-15)
Hub for	Delta Air Lines
Focus city for	Frontier Airlines Southwest Airlines Spirit Airlines
Elevation AMSL	1,026 ft / 313 m
Coordinates	33°38′12″N 084°25′41″W / 33.63667°N 84.42806°W / 33.63667; -84.42806Coordinates: 33°38′12″N 084°25′41″W / 33.63667°N 84.42806°W / 33.63667; -84.42806
Website	www.atl.com
Maps
FAA airport diagram
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 8L/26R 9,000 2,743 Concrete 8R/26L 9,999 3,048 Concrete 9L/27R 12,390 3,776 Concrete 9R/27L 9,000 2,743 Concrete 10/28 9,000 2,743 Concrete
Helipads
Number Length Surface ft m H1 52 17 Asphalt
Statistics (2021)
Total passengers 75,537,213 Aircraft operations 707,661 Total cargo (metric tons) 730,995
Source: Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport^[1]

Hartsfield–Jackson is the primary hub of Delta Air Lines. With just over 1,000 flights a day to 225 domestic and international destinations, the Delta hub is the world's largest airline hub^[6][7] and is considered the first mega-hub in America.^[8] In addition to hosting Delta's corporate headquarters, Hartsfield–Jackson is also the home of Delta's Technical Operations Center, which is the airline's primary maintenance, repair and overhaul arm.^[9] Aside from Delta, Hartsfield-Jackson is also a focus city for low-cost carriers Frontier Airlines and Southwest Airlines. The airport has international service within North America and to Latin America, Europe, Africa, Middle East and East Asia.^[10]

The airport is mostly in unincorporated areas of Clayton County,^[11] but it spills into the city limits of Atlanta,^[12] College Park,^[13] and Hapeville,^[14] in territory extending into Fulton County. The airport's domestic terminal is served by MARTA's Red and Gold rail lines.

History

 

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport's air traffic control tower

 

A line of automated and staffed ticketing counters for Delta, Atlanta's major tenant airline

 

A hallway connecting Concourse B to Concourse A at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport

 

Aerial view of Concourse C

 

A view of the International Concourse E and control tower at night

Candler Field/Atlanta Municipal Airport (1925–1961)

Hartsfield–Jackson began with a five-year, rent-free lease on 287 acres (116 ha) that was an abandoned auto racetrack named The Atlanta Speedway. The lease was signed on April 16, 1925, by Mayor Walter Sims, who committed the city to develop it into an airfield. As part of the agreement, the property was renamed Candler Field after its former owner, Coca-Cola tycoon and former Atlanta mayor Asa Candler.^[15] The first flight into Candler Field was September 15, 1926, a Florida Airways mail plane flying from Jacksonville, Florida. In May 1928, Pitcairn Aviation began service to Atlanta, followed in June 1930 by Delta Air Service. Those two airlines, later known as Eastern Air Lines and Delta Air Lines, respectively, would both use Atlanta as their chief hubs.^[16] The airport's weather station became the official location for Atlanta's weather observations on September 1, 1928, and records by the National Weather Service.^[17]

Atlanta was a busy airport from its inception, and by the end of 1930, it was third behind New York City and Chicago for regular daily flights with sixteen arriving and departing.^[18] Candler Field's first control tower opened March 1939.^[19] The March 1939 Official Aviation Guide shows fourteen weekday airline departures: ten Eastern and four Delta.^[20]

In October 1940, the U.S. government declared it a military airfield and the United States Army Air Forces operated Atlanta Army Airfield jointly with Candler Field. The Air Force used the airport primarily to service many types of transient combat aircraft. During World War II, the airport doubled in size and set a record of 1,700 takeoffs and landings in a single day, making it the nation's busiest in terms of flight operation. Atlanta Army Airfield closed after the war.^[19]

In 1942, Candler Field was renamed Atlanta Municipal Airport and by 1948, more than one million passengers passed through a war surplus hangar that served as a terminal building.^[21] Delta and Eastern had extensive networks from ATL, though Atlanta had no nonstop flights beyond Texas, St. Louis, and Chicago until 1961. Southern Airways appeared at ATL after the war and had short-haul routes around the Southeast until 1979.

In 1957, Atlanta saw its first jet airliner: a prototype Sud Aviation Caravelle that was touring the country arrived from Washington, D.C.^[22] The first scheduled turbine airliners were Capital Viscounts in June 1956; the first scheduled jets were Delta DC-8s in September 1959. The first trans-Atlantic flight was a Delta/Pan Am interchange DC-8 to Europe via Washington starting in 1964; the first scheduled international nonstops were Eastern flights to Mexico City and Jamaica in 1971–72. Nonstops to Europe started in 1978 and to Asia in 1992–93.

Atlanta claimed to be the country's busiest airport, with more than two million passengers passing through in 1957 and, between noon and 2 p.m. each day, it became the world's busiest airport.^[19] (The April 1957 OAG shows 165 weekday departures from Atlanta, including 45 between 12:05 and 2:00 PM and 20 between 2:25 and 4:25 AM.) Chicago Midway had 414-weekday departures, including 48 between 12:00 and 2:00 PM. In 1957, Atlanta was the country's ninth-busiest airline airport by flight count and about the same by passenger count.^[23]

Original Jet Terminal (1961–1980)

In late 1957, work began on a new $21 million terminal, which opened on May 3, 1961. Consisting of six pier concourses radiating from a central building,^[24] the terminal was the largest in the country and could handle over six million travelers a year; the first year, nine and a half million people passed through.^[25] In March 1962, the longest runway (9/27, now 8R) was 7,860 feet (2,400 m); runway 3 was 5,505 feet (1,678 m) and runway 15 was 7,220 feet (2,200 m) long.

In 1971, the airport was named William B. Hartsfield Atlanta Airport after former Atlanta mayor William B. Hartsfield who died that year. The name change took effect on February 28, which would have been Hartsfield's 81st birthday. Later that year, in recognition of the growth of the airport's international service, the name was changed to William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport.^[2]

Midfield Terminal (1980–present)

Construction began on the present midfield terminal in January 1977 under the administration of Mayor Maynard Jackson. It was the largest construction project in the South, costing $500 million. The complex was designed by Stevens & Wilkinson, Smith Hinchman & Grylls, and Minority Airport Architects & Planners.^[26] The new terminal, initially consisting of Concourses A through D and the northern half of the present-day Concourse T (which served as the International Terminal), opened on September 21, 1980, on time and under budget.^[27] It was designed to accommodate up to 55 million passengers per year and covered 2.5 million square feet (230,000 m²). In December 1984, a 9,000-foot (2,700 m) fourth parallel runway was completed, and another runway was extended to 11,889 feet (3,624 m) the following year.^[19]

In 1999, Hartsfield–Jackson's leadership established the Development Program: "Focus On the Future," involving multiple construction projects to prepare the airport to handle a projected demand of 121 million passengers in 2015. The program was originally budgeted at $5.4 billion over ten years, but the total is now revised to over $9 billion.^[28]

In May 2001, construction of an over 9,000-foot (2,700 m) fifth runway (10–28) began. It was completed at the cost of $1.28 billion and opened on May 27, 2006.^[29] It bridges Interstate 285 (the Perimeter) on the airport's south side, making Hartsfield–Jackson the nation's only currently active civil airport to have a runway above an interstate (although Runway 17R/35L at Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado crossed Interstate 70 until that airport closed in 1995). The massive project, which involved putting fill dirt eleven stories high in some places, destroyed some surrounding neighborhoods and dramatically changed the scenery of Flat Rock Cemetery and Hart Cemetery, both on the airport property.^[30] It was added to help ease traffic problems caused by landing small- and mid-size aircraft on the longer runways used by larger planes such as the Boeing 777, which need longer runways than the smaller planes. With the fifth runway, Hartsfield–Jackson is one of only a few airports that can perform triple simultaneous landings.^[31] The fifth runway is expected to increase the capacity for landings and take-offs by 40%, from an average of 184 flights per hour to 237 flights per hour.^[32]

Along with the fifth runway, a new control tower was built to see the entire runway length. The new control tower is the tallest in the United States, over 398 feet (121 m) tall. The old control tower, at 231ft, was demolished in August 2006. ^[33]

On October 20, 2003, the Atlanta City Council voted to rename Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport to honor former mayor Maynard Jackson, who died June 23, 2003. The council planned to drop Hartsfield's name from the airport, but public outcry prevented this.^[34][35]

In April 2007, an "end-around taxiway" opened, Taxiway Victor. It is expected to save an estimated $26 million to $30 million in fuel each year by allowing airplanes landing on the northernmost runway to taxi to the gate area without preventing other aircraft from taking off. The taxiway drops about 30 feet (9.1 m) from runway elevation to allow takeoffs to continue.^[36]

After the Southeastern U.S. drought of 2007, the airport (the state's eighth-largest water user) changed to reduce water usage. This included adjusting toilets (725 commodes and 338 urinals) and 601 sinks. (The two terminals alone use 917,000 US gal (3,470,000 l; 764,000 imp gal) a day.) It also stopped using firetrucks to spray water over aircraft when the pilot made the last landing before retirement (a water salute).^[37][38] The city of Macon offered to sell water to the airport through a proposed pipeline.^[39]

The airport today employs about 55,300 airline, ground transportation, concessionaire, security, the federal government, the City of Atlanta, and airport tenant employees and is the largest employment center in Georgia. With a payroll of $2.4 billion, the airport has a direct and indirect economic impact of $3.2 billion on the local and regional economy and an annual regional economic impact of more than $19.8 billion.^[40]

In December 2015, the airport became the first airport in the world to serve 100 million passengers in a year.^[41]

Historical airline service

Delta and Eastern dominated the airport during the 1970s. United, Southern, Piedmont, Northwest and TWA were also present.^[42] In 1978, after airline deregulation, United no longer served Atlanta, while Southern successor Republic was the airport's third-largest carrier.^[43]

Eastern was a larger airline than Delta until deregulation in 1978, but Delta was early to adopt the hub-and-spoke route system, with Atlanta as a hub between the Midwest and Florida, giving it an advantage in the Atlanta market. Eastern ceased operations in 1991 because of labor issues; American Airlines considered establishing an Atlanta hub around that time but decided Delta was too strong there and instead replaced Eastern's other hub in Miami. TWA created a small hub at Atlanta in 1992 but abandoned the concept in 1994 leaving Delta with a monopoly hub at Atlanta.^[44]

From the 1980s until Eastern's demise in 1991, Delta occupied Concourse A and part of Concourse B, Eastern occupied the remainder of Concourse B and Concourse C, other domestic airlines used Concourse D, and Concourse T was used by international flights.^[45][46] By the mid-1990s, Delta's hub grew to occupy all of Concourse B and the southern half of Concourse T, and international flights moved to the new Concourse E.^[47]

ValuJet was established in 1993 as low-cost competition for Delta at ATL. However, its safety practices were questioned early, and the airline was grounded after the 1996 crash of ValuJet Flight 592. It resumed operations in 1997 as AirTran Airways and was the second-largest airline at ATL until it was acquired by Southwest in 2011 and absorbed into Southwest on December 28, 2014. Southwest is now the airport's second-largest carrier.

Facilities

 

View of concourses A and T from a departing Delta flight in 2018

Terminals

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport has two terminals and seven concourses with a total of 192 gates.^[3] The Domestic Terminal is located on the west side of the airport and the Maynard H. Jackson Jr. International Terminal is on the east side of the airport.^[48] The terminals and concourses are connected by the Transportation Mall, a pedestrian tunnel with a series of moving walkways and The Plane Train, an automated people mover.^[49] All international arrivals are processed in Concourses E and F; Concourse F is the only concourse in the airport that has a gate that can support an Airbus A380, the largest passenger aircraft in the world. All non-Delta international carriers operate their ATL flights from this terminal, including Delta’s Skyteam partners such as Aeromexico, Air France, KLM, Korean Air and Virgin Atlantic.^{[50][51][failed verification]}

• Concourse T contains 21 gates.^[48]
• Concourse A contains 29 gates.^[48]
• Concourse B contains 32 gates.^[48]
• Concourse C contains 34 gates.^[48]
• Concourse D contains 40 gates.^[48]
• Concourse E contains 28 gates.^[48]
• Concourse F contains 12 gates.^[48]

Ground transportation

The domestic terminal can be accessed directly from Interstate 85 at exit 72. The international terminal is accessed directly from Interstate 75 at exit 239. These freeways in turn connect with the following additional freeways within 10 miles: Interstate 285, Interstate 675, Georgia State Route 166, Interstate 20.

Hartsfield–Jackson has its own train station on the city's rapid transit system, MARTA, served by the Red and Gold lines. The above-ground station is inside in the main building, between the north and south domestic terminals on the west end. The Airport station is currently the southernmost station in the MARTA system, though expansion via metro or commuter rail further south into Clayton County have been discussed.^[52]

The Hartsfield–Jackson Rental Car Center, which opened December 8, 2009, houses all ten airport rental agencies with capacity for additional companies. The complex features 9,900 parking spaces split between two four-story parking decks that together cover 2.8 million square feet (260,000 m²), a 137,000-square-foot (12,700 m²) customer service center, and a maintenance center featuring 140 gas pumps and 30 wash bays equipped with a water recovery system. An automated people mover, the ATL SkyTrain, runs between the rental car center, the Domestic Terminal, and the Gateway Center of the Georgia International Convention Center,^[53] while a four-lane roadway that spans Interstate 85 connects the rental car center with the existing airport road network.^[54]

Other facilities

 

990 Toffie Terrace hangar, former ExpressJet/Atlantic Southeast Airlines headquarters

The 990 Toffie Terrace hangar, a part of Hartsfield–Jackson Airport^[55] and located within the City of College Park corporate limits, is owned by the City of Atlanta.^[13] The building now houses the Atlanta Police Department Helicopter Unit.^[56][57] It once served as the headquarters of the regional airline ExpressJet.^[58]

Before the merger, Atlantic Southeast Airlines was headquartered in the hangar, then named the A-Tech Center.^[59] In December 2007, the airline announced it was moving its headquarters into the facility, previously named the "North Hangar." The 203,000-square-foot (18,900 m²) hangar includes 100,000 square feet (9,300 m²) of hangar bays for aircraft maintenance. It has 17 acres (6.9 ha) of adjacent land and 1,400 parking spaces for employees. The airline planned to relocate 100 employees from Macon to the new headquarters. The Atlanta City Council and Mayor of Atlanta Shirley Franklin approved the new 25-year ASA lease, which also gave the airline new hangar space to work on 15 to 25 aircraft in overnight maintenance; previously, its aircraft were serviced at Concourse C. The airport property division stated that the hangar was built in the 1960s and renovated in the 1970s. Eastern Air Lines and Delta Air Lines had previously occupied the hangar. Delta's lease originally was scheduled to expire in 2010, but the airline returned the lease to the City of Atlanta in 2005 as part of its bankruptcy settlement. The city collected an insurance settlement of almost $900,000 due to the cancellation.^[55]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations	Refs
Air Canada Express	Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson	^[60]
Air France	Paris–Charles de Gaulle	^[61]
Alaska Airlines	Seattle/Tacoma	^[62]
American Airlines	Charlotte, Chicago–O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, New York–LaGuardia, Philadelphia, Phoenix–Sky Harbor, Washington–National	^[63]
American Eagle	Charlotte, Chicago–O'Hare, Miami, New York–LaGuardia, Philadelphia, Washington–National	^[63]
British Airways	London–Heathrow	^[64]
Copa Airlines	Panama City–Tocumen	^[65]
Delta Air Lines	Albany (New York), Albuquerque, Amsterdam, Appleton, Aruba, Asheville, Austin, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Belize City, Bermuda, Birmingham (Alabama), Bogotá, Boise, Bonaire, Boston, Bozeman, Buenos Aires–Ezeiza, Buffalo, Burlington (Vermont), Cancún, Cape Town,^[66] Cedar Rapids/Iowa City, Charleston (South Carolina), Charlotte, Chattanooga, Chicago–Midway, Chicago–O'Hare, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado Springs (resumes June 6, 2023),^[67] Columbia (SC), Columbus–Glenn, Dallas/Fort Worth, Dallas–Love, Dayton, Daytona Beach, Denver, Des Moines, Destin/Fort Walton Beach, Detroit, Düsseldorf (resumes May 9, 2023),^[68] El Paso, Evansville, Fayetteville/Bentonville, Fayetteville (North Carolina), Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Frankfurt, Gainesville, Grand Cayman, Grand Rapids, Green Bay, Greensboro, Greenville/Spartanburg, Guadalajara, Guatemala City, Gulfport/Biloxi, Harrisburg, Hartford, Honolulu, Houston–Hobby, Houston–Intercontinental, Huntsville, Indianapolis, Jackson (Mississippi), Jacksonville (Florida), Jacksonville (North Carolina, Johannesburg–O. R. Tambo, Kansas City, Key West, Kingston–Norman Manley, Knoxville, Lagos, Las Vegas, Lexington, Liberia (CR), Lima, Little Rock, London–Heathrow, Los Angeles, Louisville, Madison, Madrid, Melbourne/Orlando, Memphis, Mexico City, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Mobile, Montego Bay, Monterrey, Munich, Myrtle Beach, Nashville, Nassau, Newark, New Orleans, New York–JFK, New York–LaGuardia, Norfolk, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Ontario (California), Orange County, Orlando, Panama City (Florida), Panama City–Tocumen, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Pensacola, Philadelphia, Phoenix–Sky Harbor, Pittsburgh, Portland (Maine), Portland (Oregon), Providence, Providenciales, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, Quito, Raleigh/Durham, Richmond, Roanoke, Roatán, Rochester (NY), Rome–Fiumicino, Sacramento, St. Louis, St. Lucia–Hewanorra, St. Maarten, St. Thomas, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose (CA), San José de Costa Rica–Juan Santamaría, San José del Cabo, San Juan, San Pedro Sula, San Salvador, Santiago de Chile, Santo Domingo–Las Américas, São Paulo–Guarulhos, Sarasota, Savannah, Seattle/Tacoma, Seoul–Incheon, Sioux Falls, Spokane, Springfield/Branson, Stuttgart (resumes March 26, 2023),^[69] Syracuse, Tallahassee, Tampa, Tel Aviv (begins March 26, 2023),^[66] Tokyo–Haneda, Toronto–Pearson, Tucson, Tulsa, Washington–Dulles, Washington–National, West Palm Beach, White Plains, Wichita, Wilmington (North Carolina) Seasonal: Anchorage, Antigua, Athens, Barcelona, Dublin, Eagle/Vail, Edinburgh (begins May 25, 2023),^[70] Hayden/Steamboat Springs, Jackson Hole, Kahului, Milan–Malpensa, Montréal–Trudeau, Montrose, Palm Springs, Rio de Janeiro–Galeão, St. Croix, St. Kitts, Traverse City, Venice	^[71]
Delta Connection	Albany (GA), Alexandria, Allentown, Augusta (Georgia), Bloomington/Normal, Brunswick, Charleston (West Virginia), Charlottesville (Virginia), Chattanooga, Columbia (South Carolina), Columbus (Georgia), Columbus (Mississippi), Dothan, Evansville, Fayetteville/Bentonville, Fayetteville (North Carolina), Fort Wayne, Gainesville, George Town, Gulfport/Biloxi, Hilton Head, Jacksonville (North Carolina), Key West, Knoxville, Lafayette, Lexington, Marsh Harbour, Mobile, Moline/Quad Cities, Monroe, Montgomery, North Eleuthera, Oklahoma City, Roanoke, Shreveport, South Bend, Springfield/Branson, Tri-Cities (Tennessee), Valdosta, White Plains, Wilmington (NC) Seasonal: Aspen, Fargo, Montréal–Trudeau	^[71]^[72]
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa (begins May 17, 2023)^a^[73]	^[74]
Frontier Airlines	Baltimore, Buffalo, Cancún, Chicago–Midway, Cincinnati, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Houston–Intercontinental, Kingston–Norman Manley, Las Vegas, Liberia (CR), Miami, Montego Bay, Nassau, New Orleans, New York–LaGuardia, Ontario, Orlando, Philadelphia, Raleigh/Durham, San Antonio, San Francisco, San José de Costa Rica–Juan Santamaría, San Juan, San Salvador, St. Louis, Tampa, Trenton, West Palm Beach Seasonal: Austin, Cleveland, Dallas/Fort Worth, Detroit, Hartford, Newburgh, Phoenix–Sky Harbor, Portland (ME), Providence (ends April 19, 2023),^[75] Punta Cana	^[76]
JetBlue	Boston, Fort Lauderdale, New York–JFK, New York–LaGuardia (begins May 5, 2023)^[77]	^[78]
KLM	Amsterdam	^[79]
Korean Air	Seoul–Incheon	^[80]
Lufthansa	Frankfurt	^[81]
Qatar Airways	Doha	^[82]
Southern Airways Express	Jackson (TN)	^[83]
Southwest Airlines	Austin, Baltimore, Chicago–Midway, Cleveland, Columbus–Glenn, Dallas–Love, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Greenville/Spartanburg, Houston–Hobby, Indianapolis, Jackson (MS), Jacksonville (FL), Kansas City, Las Vegas, Little Rock, Louisville, Memphis, Miami, Milwaukee, Nashville, New Orleans, New York–LaGuardia, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix–Sky Harbor, Pittsburgh, Raleigh/Durham, Richmond, San Antonio, San Diego, Sarasota, St. Louis, Tampa, Washington–Dulles, Washington–National, West Palm Beach Seasonal: Los Angeles, Norfolk, Oakland, Panama City (FL), Pensacola	^[84]
Spirit Airlines	Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago–O'Hare, Cleveland, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Houston–Intercontinental, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Newark, New Orleans, Orlando, Philadelphia, Tampa Seasonal: Atlantic City	^[85]
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul	^[86]
United Airlines	Chicago–O'Hare, Denver, Houston–Intercontinental, Newark, San Francisco, Washington–Dulles	^[87]
United Express	Chicago–O'Hare, Denver, Houston–Intercontinental, Newark, Washington–Dulles	^[87]
Virgin Atlantic	London–Heathrow, Manchester (UK)	^[88]
WestJet	Calgary	^[89]

^a: Ethiopian Airlines flights from Addis Ababa stop in Dublin for refueling. The flight from Atlanta to Addis Ababa is nonstop.

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
AeroLogic	Frankfurt
Amazon Air	Baltimore, Ontario
Asiana Cargo	Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami, Seoul–Incheon
ASL Airlines Belgium	Liège
CAL Cargo Air Lines	Liège, Tel Aviv
Cargolux	Chicago–O'Hare, Huntsville, Luxembourg, Los Angeles, New York–JFK, Seattle/Tacoma
Cathay Pacific Cargo	Anchorage, Dallas/Fort Worth, Hong Kong
China Airlines Cargo	Anchorage, Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami, Taipei–Taoyuan
China Cargo Airlines	Anchorage, Chicago–O'Hare, Shanghai–Pudong
DHL Aviation	Cincinnati, Miami, New York–JFK^[90]
EVA Air Cargo	Anchorage, Osaka–Kansai, Taipei–Taoyuan
FedEx Express	Fort Lauderdale, Fort Worth/Alliance, Greensboro, Indianapolis, Memphis, Miami, Newark
Korean Air Cargo	Anchorage, Chicago–O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, New York–JFK
Lufthansa Cargo	Frankfurt, Miami^[91]
Qatar Airways Cargo	Anchorage, Doha, Houston–Intercontinental, Liège, Luxembourg, Mexico City, Pittsburgh
Turkish Cargo	Istanbul, Shannon
UPS Airlines	Fargo, Columbia (SC), Dallas/Fort Worth, Louisville, Miami, Philadelphia, San Juan

Statistics

Top destinations

Busiest domestic routes from ATL (September 2021 – August 2022)^[92]

Rank	Airport	Passengers	Airlines
1	Orlando, Florida	1,270,000	Delta, Frontier, JetBlue, Southwest, Spirit
2	Fort Lauderdale, Florida	1,143,000	Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, Spirit
3	Miami, Florida	946,000	American, Delta, Frontier, Spirit
4	New York–LaGuardia, New York	939,000	American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest
5	Tampa, Florida	913,000	Delta, Southwest, Spirit, Frontier
6	Los Angeles, California	877,000	American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, Spirit
7	Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas	847,000	American, Delta, Spirit
8	Denver, Colorado	829,000	Delta, Southwest, Spirit, Frontier, United
9	Las Vegas, Nevada	766,000	Delta, Frontier, Southwest, Spirit
10	Newark, New Jersey	731,000	Delta, JetBlue, Spirit, United

Busiest international routes from ATL (2021)^[93]

Rank	Airport	Scheduled passengers	Carriers
1	Cancún, Mexico	590,278	Delta, Frontier
2	Paris–Charles de Gaulle, France	434,763	Air France, Delta
3	Amsterdam, Netherlands	432,396	Delta, KLM
4	Mexico City, Mexico	415,571	Delta
5	Punta Cana, Dominican Republic	206,768	Delta, Frontier
6	Montego Bay, Jamaica	195,504	Delta, Frontier
7	Nassau, Bahamas	171,862	Delta
8	London–Heathrow, United Kingdom	157,881	British Airways, Delta, Virgin Atlantic
9	Frankfurt, Germany	133,608	Delta, Lufthansa
10	Seoul–Incheon, South Korea	126,005	Delta, Korean
11	Lagos, Nigeria	124,692	Delta
12	San José, Costa Rica	124,472	Delta
13	Bogotá, Colombia	111,098	Delta
14	São Paulo, Brazil	105,751	Delta
15	San José del Cabo, Mexico	105,158	Delta
16	Liberia, Costa Rica	104,156	Delta
17	Rome, Italy	100,391	Delta
18	Lima, Peru	99,196	Delta
19	Guatemala City, Guatemala	98,411	Delta
20	Oranjestad, Aruba	98,045	Delta

Airline market share

Largest airlines at ATL
(July 2021–June 2022)^[92]

Rank	Airline	Passengers	Share
1	Delta Air Lines	58,272,000	73.58%
2	Southwest Airlines	6,986,000	8.82%
3	Endeavor Air (operating as Delta Connection)	4,441,000	5.61%
4	Spirit Airlines	2,736,000	3.45%
5	American Airlines	1,984,000	2.5%

Annual traffic

Annual passenger traffic at ATL airport. See Wikidata query.

Traffic by calendar year

	Passengers	Change from previous year	Aircraft operations	Cargo tonnage^[94]
2000	78,092,940	02.77%	N/A	935,892
2001	80,162,407	02.65%	915,454	865,991
2002	75,858,500	05.37%	890,494	735,796
2003	76,876,128	01.34%	889,966	734,083
2004	79,087,928	02.88%	911,727	802,248
2005	83,606,583	05.71%	964,858	862,230
2006	85,907,423	02.75%	980,386	767,897
2007	84,846,639	01.23%	976,447	746,502
2008	89,379,287	05.34%	994,346	720,209
2009	90,039,280	00.74%	978,824	655,277
2010	88,001,381	02.23%	970,235	563,139
2011	92,389,023	03.53%	923,996	659,129
2012	94,956,643	03.10%	952,767	684,576
2013	94,431,224	01.13%	911,074	616,365
2014	96,178,899	01.85%	868,359	601,270
2015	101,491,106	05.52%	882,497	626,201
2016	104,258,124	02.73%	898,356	648,595
2017	103,902,992	00.26%	879,560	685,338
2018	107,394,029	03.33%	895,682	693,790
2019	110,531,300	02.92%	904,301	639,276
2020	42,918,685	061.17%	548,016	599,179
2021	75,537,213	076.00%	707,661	690,867
Source: Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport^[10]^[95]

On-Time Performance (Domestic Major U.S. Carriers Only)

On-time performance by calendar year^[93]

Year	Percent of on time departures	Percent of on time arrivals	Average departure delay (min)	Average arrival delay (min)	Percent of cancelled flights
2017	81%	84%	62.04	74.94	1.49%
2018	81%	84%	58.78	68.39	0.65%
2019	82%	85%	59.43	69.23	0.61%
2020	87%	87%	56.49	69.05	4.69%
2021	85%	88%	55.02	67.94	0.67%

Accidents and incidents

• On May 23, 1960, Delta Air Lines Flight 1903, a Convair CV-880-22-1 (N8804E), crashed on takeoff resulting in the loss of all four crew members. This flight was a training flight for two Delta captains who were being type-rated on the 880.^[96]
• On February 25, 1969, Eastern Air Lines Flight 955 was hijacked by one passenger shortly after takeoff from ATL en route to Miami. The man pulled a .22 caliber pistol and demanded to be flown to Cuba. He got off the plane in Cuba while the DC-8 was allowed to fly back to the U.S.^[97]
• On April 4, 1977, Southern Airways Flight 242 was on descent to the airport when the hail was ingested into the engines, leading them to fail. Pilot errors and difficult weather forced the pilots to attempt an emergency landing on a highway. Upon touchdown, the aircraft struck several buildings and cars, killing 72 people.
• On January 18, 1990, an Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 overran a Beechcraft King Air operated by Epps Air Service, based at another Atlanta airport. The King Air had landed and was taxiing when the 727, still at high speed in its landing roll, collided with the aircraft. The larger plane's wing impacted the roof of the smaller. The pilot of the King Air, an Epps charter pilot, was killed, while a passenger survived. No crew or passengers on the Eastern plane were injured.^[98]
• On October 11, 2022, comedian and television host Eric André, along with comedian Clayton English, filed a federal lawsuit against Clayton County, claiming that they were subject to a police program at the airport that, without reasonable suspicion, racially profiled, coerced, and illegally searched passengers boarding planes for drugs. Their lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the program.^[99]

See also

•  Aviation portal

• Atlanta's second airport
• Candler Field Museum
• Georgia World War II Army Airfields
• List of busiest airports by aircraft movements
• List of busiest airports by cargo traffic
• List of busiest airports by international passenger traffic
• List of busiest airports by passenger traffic
• List of the busiest airports in the United States
• World's busiest airport
• List of tallest air traffic control towers in the United States

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External links

 

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• Official website
• Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport Official YouTube
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution June 8, 2003, at the Wayback Machine
• hartsfield-jackson atlanta international airport: All you need to know
• Historic photos of Atlanta Airport – Over 100 pages of historic ATL photos including dozens of vintage photos from the LIFE archive.
• Atlanta Airport Time Machine – ATL Airport historian David Henderson's Google Maps mashup featuring historical locations and associated photography.
• Atlanta airport travel data at Airportsdata.net
• Atlanta Airport Parking Guide
• Airport webcams, flight timetables & pilot data
• FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective December 29, 2022
• Resources for this airport:
  • AirNav airport information for KATL
  • ASN accident history for ATL
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for KATL
  • FAA current ATL delay information