Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (IATA: ATL, ICAO: KATL, FAA LID: ATL), místné známé jako Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield Airport a Hartsfield-Jackson, is located seven miles (11 km) south of the central business district of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It has been the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic as well as landings and take-offs.[2] Additionally, Delta Air Lines operates the world's largest airline hub from the airport. AirTran Airways also operates its largest hub at the airport. The airport is the primary hub of Delta Air Lines, AirTran Airways, Delta Connection, and Atlantic Southeast Airlines. The airport has 180 gates.
Hartsfield held its ranking as the world's busiest airport in 2006, both in terms of passengers and number of flights, by accommodating 84.8 million passengers and 976,447 flights respectively.[3] Many of these flights are domestic flights from within the United States where Atlanta serves as a major transfer point for flights to and from smaller cities throughout the Southern United States. Fifty-seven percent of Hartsfield-Jackson's airport passengers do not stay in Atlanta but go on connection flights elsewhere.[citation needed] As an international gateway to the United States, Hartsfield-Jackson ranks seventh; John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City is first. However, the airport is increasingly becoming a major gateway for passengers boarding flights for other countries. In the first half of 2007 Atlanta's airport had one of the fastest rates of international passenger growth in the nation with international traffic jumping 12.5 percent over the first six months of the previous year. More than 1.96 million passengers boarded international flights at Hartsfield-Jackson from January through June of 2007, ranking it No. 2 in the nation behind Miami International Airport for the total number of international enplanements.
The Atlanta airport has more nonstop flights and destinations than any airline hub in the world. It serves 243 nonstop destinations, including 72 international destinations in 45 countries. [6] Hartsfield-Jackson is one of only a few airports that can perform triple simultaneous landings.
The airport is located partly within the city of College Park, Georgia, which is south of the city limits of Atlanta, but is located mostly in unincorporated areas in Fulton and Clayton counties; the city limits of College Park, East Point, and Hapeville extend to the airport grounds.
Air traffic controllers for tower and ground control operations referring to the letter "D" use the word "Dixie" instead of "Delta" to avoid confusion with Delta Air Lines aircraft.
Managed by Spanish airport operator abertis airports, the airport employs approximately 55,300 airline, ground transportation, concessionaire, security, federal government, City of Atlanta and Airport tenant employees and is considered the largest employment center in the State of Georgia. With a payroll of $2.4 billion, the airport has a direct and indirect economic impact of $5.6 billion on the local and regional economy and a total annual, regional economic impact of more than $18.7 billion.
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Hartsfield-Jackson International is the world's third largest airport at 5.8 million square feet, behind Hong Kong International Airport and Suvarnabhumi Airport. It is the chief hub to Delta Air Lines and mostly handles air traffic to other parts of the United States and Canada. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport has international service to North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It has two terminals where passengers check in, the North Terminal and the South Terminal (in reality, these are just the north and south sides of one large building, and not two separate terminals). The middle part of this building is the so-called main terminal, used for security screening, before passengers head to their aircraft concourses. Airside concourses are arranged successively in distance from the terminal as Concourses T, A, B, C and D and E (the international terminal, which was opened in 1996 in time for the summer Olympic games). All concourses are accessible via the underground train and intermittent moving sidewalks.
Six concourses exist for passenger boarding. Moving sidewalks and an underground "people mover" train made by Adtranz (Now acquired by Bombardier) consisting of C-100 and CX-100 vehicles that connect the concourses, and the terminals building. Concourse T is attached to the terminal, and was formerly for international flights, before Concourse E was built prior to the 1996 Centennial Summer Olympics. The train has a recorded female voice that identifies each stop using the NATO phonetic alphabet: "The next station is Concourse B. Concourse B as in 'Bravo'." However, Concourse D is referred to as "'D' as in 'David'" rather than the correct "'D' as in 'Delta'", to avoid confusion with Delta Air Lines, which operates out of all six concourses.
There are no moving sidewalks within the concourses themselves. Escalators are located in the middle of each concourse that lead down to a people-mover station and moving side walks linking each concourse.
Hartsfield-Jackson also has its own train station on the city's rapid transit system, MARTA. The above-ground station is inside in the main building, between the north and south terminals on the west end. Built as part of the airport, it was not connected until the south line could be extended to it in 1988. It is currently the southernmost point on MARTA, though there are talks of adding a second station for a planned second terminal. This could possibly be a substitute for adding a second people-mover.
