Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport

"Atlanta Airport" redirects here. For the airport in Idaho, see Atlanta Airport (Idaho). For the airport in Atlanta, Texas, see Hall-Miller Municipal Airport.

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
IATA: ATL ICAO: KATL FAA LID: ATL WMO: 72219
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Atlanta
Operator	Atlanta Department of Aviation
Serves	Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Location	Unincorporated areas of Fulton and Clayton counties; also Atlanta, College Park, and Hapeville, Georgia
Hub for	Delta Air Lines
Focus city for	Frontier Airlines Southwest Airlines
Elevation AMSL	1,026 ft / 313 m
Coordinates	33°38′12″N 084°25′41″W
Website	www.atl.com
Map
ATL Location of airport in Metro Atlanta ATL ATL (Georgia) ATL ATL (the United States) ATL ATL (North America)
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 (2019)
Total passengers 110,531,300 Aircraft operations 904,301 Total cargo (metric tons) 639,276
Source: Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (IATA: ATL, ICAO: KATL, FAA LID: ATL), also known as Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield, or Hartsfield–Jackson, is the primary international airport serving Atlanta, Georgia. The airport is located seven miles (11km) south of the Downtown Atlanta district. It is named after former Atlanta mayors William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson. The airport has 192 gates: 152 domestic and 40 international. ATL covers 4,700 acres (1,902 ha) of land and has five parallel runways.

Hartsfield–Jackson is the primary hub of Delta Air Lines, and is a focus city for low-cost carriers Frontier Airlines and Southwest Airlines. With just over 1,000 flights a day to 225 domestic and international destinations, the Delta hub is the world's largest airline hub. 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.

The airport has international service within North America and to South America, Central America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. As an international gateway to the United States, Hartsfield–Jackson ranks seventh in international passenger traffic. Many of the nearly one million annual flights are domestic flights; the airport is a major hub for travel in the southeastern region of the country. Atlanta has been the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998.

The airport is mostly in unincorporated areas of Fulton and Clayton counties, but it spills into the city limits of Atlanta, College Park, and Hapeville. 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 Atlanta Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport.

An Aerial view of Concourse C

A view of the International Concourse E and Control Tower at night

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. 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. Later those two airlines, now known as Eastern Air Lines and Delta Air Lines, respectively, would both use Atlanta as their chief hubs. The airport's weather station became the official location for Atlanta's weather observations September 1, 1928, and records by the National Weather Service.

It was a busy airport from its inception and at the end of 1930 it was third behind New York City and Chicago for regular daily flights with sixteen arriving and departing. (In May 1931 Atlanta had four scheduled departures.) Candler Field's first control tower opened March 1939. The March 1939 Official Aviation Guide shows fourteen weekday airline departures: ten Eastern and four Delta.

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.

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. 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. 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 the 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. (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.

That year work began on a $21 million terminal which opened May 3, 1961. It 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. 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 had died that year. The name change took effect on February 28, which would have been Hartsfield's 81st birthday. Later that year the name became William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport.

The airport's terminal until the 1970s was off Virginia Avenue, on the north side of the airport. Six pier concourses radiated from a central building. 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. The new terminal opened on September 21, 1980, on-time and under budget. 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.

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

In May 2001 construction of an over 9,000-foot (2,700 m) fifth runway (10–28) began. It was completed at a cost of $1.28 billion and opened on May 27, 2006. It bridges Interstate 285 (the Perimeter) on the airport's south side, making Hartsfield–Jackson the nation's only 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 of which are on the airport property. 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. 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.

Along with the fifth runway, a new control tower was built to see the entire length of the runway. The new control tower is the tallest in the United States, over 398 feet (121 m) tall. The old control tower, 585 feet (178 m) away from the new one, was demolished August 5, 2006.

Atlanta City Council voted on October 20, 2003, to rename the airport 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.

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.

After the Southeastern U.S. drought of 2007, the airport (the eighth-largest water user in the state) made changes to reduce water usage. This included adjusting toilets (725 commodes and 338 urinals) and 601 sinks. (The two terminals alone use 917,000 gallons or about 3.5 million liters a day.) It also stopped using firetrucks to spray water over aircraft when the pilot made a last landing before retirement (a water salute). The city of Macon offered to sell water to the airport, through a proposed pipeline.

The airport today employs about 55,300 airline, ground transportation, concessionaire, security, federal government, 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. Since the opening of Concourse F in May 2012, the airport now has 192 gates which is the most at any airport.

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

Historical airline service

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

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, leaving Delta with a monopoly hub at Atlanta.

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. 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.

ValuJet was established in 1993 as low-cost competition for Delta at ATL. However, its safety practices were called into question 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.

Future

On August 28, 2014, the airport management unveiled a preliminary new master plan. Included in the preliminary master plan are the replacement of the existing domestic parking garages, an end-around taxiway and additional cargo facilities on the south side of the airport, the addition of three new international concourses (G, H, and I), the conversion of Concourse E to domestic use and a sixth runway.

On March 10, 2016, the final 20-year master plan was finalized. The final master plan includes the following:

• Modernization of the existing terminals.
• Construction of Concourse G, though the airport is now exploring expansion of existing facilities instead.
• Expansion of Concourse D.
• Extension of Concourse T.
• Relocation of the turnback for The Plane Train.
• Construction of a new parking deck next to the Georgia International Convention Center.
• A new park-and-ride lot at Sullivan Road.
• Replacement of the existing domestic parking garages.
• A new hotel, travel plaza, and mixed use commercial complex.
• Repaving of the existing runways and taxiways.
• A new sixth runway.
• A new end-around taxiway.
• Replacement and relocation of cargo buildings, the fire station, and maintenance complexes.

Proposed Concourses H and I are not currently included in the final master plan, but may be added later if demand warrants in 2030 or later.

Facilities

Runways

ATL FAA diagram

Atlanta has five runways, all parallel, aligned east–west. 8L/26R and 8R/26L are north of the terminal area and 9L/27R, 9R/27L, and 10/28 are south of it. From north to south the runways are:

Runways at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International

E	Length	Width	W	Use	Notes
8L →	9,000 ft 2,700 m	150 ft 46 m	← 26R	Arrivals	Category III ILS
8R →	9,999 ft 3,048 m	150 ft 46 m	← 26L	Departures	Category II ILS
Terminal Area
9L →	12,390 ft 3,780 m	150 ft 46 m	← 27R	Departures	Category I ILS
9R →	9,000 ft 2,700 m	150 ft 46 m	← 27L	Arrivals	Category III ILS
10 →	9,000 ft 2,700 m	150 ft 46 m	← 28	Arrivals & Departures	Category II ILS

Runways 8R/26L and 9L/27R are used for departures as they're the closest to the mid-field terminals; this reduces the amount of fuel needed to taxi to the runway. Runway 10/28 is assigned to either arrivals or departures, depending on what airfield operations has prioritized.

Terminal

The Transportation Mall. The portion between Concourse T and Concourse A includes the exhibit Zimbabwe Sculpture: a Tradition in Stone

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport has terminal and concourse space totaling 6.8 million square feet (630,000 m²). There are two terminals, the Domestic Terminal and the Maynard H. Jackson Jr. International Terminal, where passengers check in and claim bags.

The Domestic Terminal is on the western side of the airport. It is divided into two sides – Terminal South and Terminal North – for ticketing, check-in, and baggage claim. Delta is the sole tenant of Terminal South, while all other domestic airlines are located at Terminal North. The portion of the building between Terminal North and Terminal South includes the Atrium, which is a large, open seating area featuring concessionaires, a bank, conference rooms, an interfaith chapel and offices on the upper floors with the main security checkpoint, the Ground Transportation Center and a MARTA station on other levels.

International flights arrive and depart from the international terminal, either concourse E or F, located on the eastern side of the airport. Concourse F and the new international terminal opened May 16, 2012, while concourse E opened in September 1994, in anticipation of the 1996 Summer Olympics. International pre-cleared flights can arrive at concourses T & A–D. International flights can also depart from concourses T and A–D, such as when space is unavailable at concourses E or F, or when an aircraft arrives as a domestic flight and continues as an international flight. Furthermore, all international pre-cleared flights, regardless of origin, will collect their baggage at the international terminal.

The 195 gates are located in seven concourses between the Domestic and International terminals. Concourse T is connected to the Domestic Terminal. The remaining six concourses from west to east are Concourses A, B, C, D, E, and F. Concourses A–D and T are used for domestic flights, while Concourses E and F are used for international flights and some domestic flights when gates at T or A–D are not available, or when an aircraft arrives as an international flight and continues as a domestic flight. Concourse F is directly connected to the International Terminal, while Concourse E has a designated walkway to the International Terminal and also has its own Federal Inspection station for connecting passengers. Delta Air Lines has gates and Sky Club lounges in all concourses. American Airlines and United Airlines have an Admiral's Club and a United Club respectively in Concourse T.

• Concourse T contains 17 gates
• Concourse A contains 29 gates
• Concourse B contains 32 gates
• Concourse C contains 34 gates
• Concourse D contains 40 gates
• Concourse E contains 28 gates
• Concourse F contains 15 gates

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport gates

When the current passenger terminal opened in 1980, it consisted of only the domestic terminal, the north half of Concourse T (which housed international flights), and concourses A-D. Concourse E opened in 1994 for international flights in time for the 1996 Summer Olympics, which were held in Atlanta. Once Concourse E was opened, Concourse T was converted to domestic use and the former U.S. Customs hall was converted into a dedicated baggage claim area for American Airlines. Concourse F and the International Terminal opened in 2012.

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. The Plane Train has stations along the Transportation Mall at the Domestic Terminal (which also serves Concourse T), at each of the six other concourses (including concourse F which is connected to the International Terminal), and at the domestic baggage claim area. The Plane Train is the world's busiest automated system, with over 64 million riders in 2002.

At one time, there was a second underground walkway between Concourses B and C that connected the north ends of the two concourses and made it possible to transfer without returning to the center of the concourse. This was constructed for Eastern Airlines, which occupied these two terminals. This walkway is now closed, and its entrance at Concourse B has been replaced by a bank of arrival/departure monitors.

Ground transportation

The domestic terminal is 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. 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.

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, while a four-lane roadway that spans Interstate 85 connects the rental car center with the existing airport road network.

Other facilities

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

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

Before the merger, Atlantic Southeast Airlines headquartered in the hangar, then named the A-Tech Center. 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 of 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 Airlines 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 as a result of the cancellation.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations	Refs
Air Canada Express	Toronto–Pearson
Air Choice One	Jackson (TN)
Air France	Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Alaska Airlines	Seattle/Tacoma
American Airlines	Charlotte, Chicago–O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, New York–LaGuardia, Philadelphia, Phoenix–Sky Harbor, Washington–National
American Eagle	Charlotte, Chicago–O'Hare, Miami, New York–LaGuardia, Philadelphia, Washington–National
Boutique Air	Greenville (MS), Muscle Shoals
British Airways	London–Heathrow
Delta Air Lines	Akron/Canton, Albany (NY), Albuquerque, Allentown, Amsterdam, Appleton, Aruba, Asheville, Augusta (GA), Austin, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Belize City, Bermuda, Birmingham (AL), Bogotá, Boise (resumes July 6, 2020), Bonaire, Boston, Brussels, Buenos Aires–Ezeiza, Buffalo, Burbank, Cancún, Cartagena, Cedar Rapids/Iowa City (IA), Charleston (SC), Charleston (WV), Charlotte, Charlottesville, Chattanooga, Chicago–Midway, Chicago–O'Hare, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado Springs, Columbia (SC), Columbus–Glenn, Cozumel, Dallas–Love, Dallas/Fort Worth, Dayton, Daytona Beach, Denver, Des Moines, Destin/Fort Walton Beach, Detroit, Düsseldorf, El Paso, Fayetteville/Bentonville, Fayetteville (NC), Flint, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Frankfurt, Gainesville, George Town/Great Exuma Island, Grand Cayman, Grand Rapids, Greensboro, Greenville/Spartanburg, Guadalajara, Guatemala City, Gulfport/Biloxi, Harrisburg, Hartford, Honolulu, Houston–Hobby, Houston–Intercontinental, Huntsville, Indianapolis, Jackson (MS), Jacksonville (FL), Johannesburg–O. R. Tambo, Kansas City, Key West, Kingston–Norman Manley, Knoxville, Lafayette, Lagos, Las Vegas, Lexington, Liberia (CR), Lima, Little Rock, London–Heathrow, Los Angeles, Louisville, Madison, Madrid, Managua, Melbourne (FL), Memphis, Mexico City, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Mobile, Montego Bay, Monterrey, Munich, Nashville, Nassau, Newark, New Orleans, Newport News, New York–JFK, New York–LaGuardia, Norfolk, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Ontario (CA), Orange County, Orlando, Panama City (FL), Panama City–Tocumen, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Pensacola, Philadelphia, Phoenix–Sky Harbor, Pittsburgh, Portland (ME), Portland (OR), Providence, Providenciales, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, Quito, Raleigh/Durham, Richmond, Rio de Janeiro–Galeão, 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 (Costa Rica), San José del Cabo, San Juan, San Pedro Sula, San Salvador, Santiago de Chile, Santiago de los Caballeros, Santo Domingo–Las Américas, São Paulo–Guarulhos, Sarasota, Savannah, Seattle/Tacoma, Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Pudong (suspended until April 30, 2020), Sioux Falls, Spokane (begins July 6, 2020), Stuttgart, Syracuse, Tallahassee, Tampa, Tegucigalpa, Tokyo–Haneda (begins March 28, 2020), Tokyo–Narita (ends March 27, 2020), Toronto–Pearson, Tri-Cities (TN), Tucson, Tulsa, Vancouver, Washington–Dulles, Washington–National, West Palm Beach, White Plains, Wichita, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Wilmington (NC) Seasonal: Anchorage, Antigua, Barcelona, Bozeman, Dublin, Eagle/Vail, Fargo, Green Bay, Grenada, Hayden/Steamboat Springs, Jackson Hole, Kalispell, Manchester (NH), Milan–Malpensa, Missoula, Montrose, Myrtle Beach, Oakland, Palm Springs, Reno/Tahoe, St. Croix, St. Kitts, South Bend, Venice–Marco Polo, Zürich
Delta Connection	Akron/Canton, Albany (GA), Alexandria, Allentown, Appleton, Asheville, Augusta (GA), Baton Rouge, Bloomington/Normal, Brunswick, Burlington (VT), Cedar Rapids/Iowa City, Charleston (WV), Charlottesville, Chattanooga, Columbia (SC), Columbus (GA), Columbus (MS), Dothan, Evansville, Fayetteville/Bentonville, Fayetteville (NC), Flint, Fort Smith, Fort Wayne, Freeport, Gainesville, George Town/Great Exuma Island, Green Bay, Greensboro, Greenville/Spartanburg, Gulfport/Biloxi, Havana, Hilton Head, Jacksonville (NC), Key West, Knoxville, Lafayette, Lexington, Lincoln, Mobile, Moline/Quad Cities, Monroe, Montgomery, Montréal–Trudeau, New Bern, Newport News, Peoria, Roanoke, Rochester (MN), Shreveport, South Bend, Springfield/Branson, Tallahassee, Tri-Cities (TN), Tulsa, Valdosta, White Plains, Wilmington (NC) Seasonal: Aspen, Elmira (NY), Fargo, Jackson (MS), Little Rock, Myrtle Beach, North Eleuthera, Rapid City, Traverse City
Frontier Airlines	Denver, Las Vegas, Long Island/Islip, Los Angeles, Miami, New York–LaGuardia, Newark, Orlando, Philadelphia, Raleigh/Durham, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, San Juan, Trenton Seasonal: Austin, Cincinnati, San Antonio, Tampa
JetBlue	Boston, Fort Lauderdale, New York–JFK, Orlando
KLM	Amsterdam
Korean Air	Seoul–Incheon
Lufthansa	Frankfurt
Qatar Airways	Doha
Southwest Airlines	Austin, Baltimore, Chicago–Midway, Cleveland, Columbus–Glenn, Dallas–Love, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Greenville/Spartanburg, Houston–Hobby, Indianapolis, Jacksonville (FL), Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Memphis (begins March 7, 2020), Milwaukee, Nashville, New Orleans, New York–LaGuardia, Oakland, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix–Sky Harbor, Pittsburgh, Raleigh/Durham, Richmond, St. Louis, San Antonio, San Diego, Tampa, Washington–Dulles, Washington–National, West Palm Beach Seasonal: Cancún, Charleston (SC) (begins June 7, 2020), Norfolk (resumes June 7, 2020), Panama City (FL) (begins June 7, 2020), Punta Cana
Spirit Airlines	Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago–O'Hare, Cleveland, Dallas/Fort Worth, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Houston–Intercontinental, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Newark, New Orleans, Orlando, Philadelphia, Tampa Seasonal: Atlantic City
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul
United Airlines	Chicago–O'Hare, Denver, Houston–Intercontinental, Newark, San Francisco, Washington–Dulles
United Express	Chicago–O'Hare, Denver, Houston–Intercontinental, Newark, Washington–Dulles
Virgin Atlantic	London–Heathrow, Manchester (UK)
WestJet	Calgary

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Aerologic	Frankfurt
AirBridgeCargo Airlines	Amsterdam, Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Asiana Cargo	Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami
ASL Airlines Belgium	Liège
CAL Cargo Air Lines	Liège
CargoLogicAir	London–Stansted, Mexico City
Cargolux	Chicago–O'Hare, Huntsville, Glasgow–Prestwick, 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
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, Manchester (UK), Miami
Qatar Airways Cargo	Anchorage, Doha, Houston–Intercontinental, Liège, Luxembourg, Mexico City, Pittsburgh
Singapore Airlines Cargo	Chicago–O'Hare, Los Angeles
Turkish Airlines Cargo	Istanbul–Atatürk, Shannon
UPS Airlines	Columbia (SC), Dallas/Fort Worth, Louisville, Miami, Philadelphia, San Juan

Statistics

Top destinations

Busiest domestic routes from ATL
(June 2018 - May 2019)

Rank	Airport	Passengers	Airlines
1	Orlando, Florida	1,494,110	Delta, Frontier, JetBlue, Southwest, Spirit
2	Chicago, Illinois	1,296,520	American, Delta, Southwest, Spirit, United
3	Fort Lauderdale, Florida	1,354,200	Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, Spirit
4	New York–LaGuardia, New York	1,202,350	American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest
5	Los Angeles, California	1,141,840	American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, Spirit
6	Tampa, Florida	1,041,250	Delta, Southwest, Spirit, Frontier
7	Boston, Massachusetts	979,520	Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, Spirit
8	Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas	900,620	American, Delta, Spirit
9	Miami, Florida	896,660	American, Delta, Frontier
10	Baltimore, Maryland	864,760	Delta, Southwest, Spirit

Busiest international routes from ATL (2016)

Rank	Airport	Scheduled Passengers	Carriers
1	Amsterdam, Netherlands	812,286	Delta, KLM
2	Paris, France	787,756	Air France, Delta
3	Cancún, Mexico	740,837	Delta, Southwest
4	London–Heathrow, United Kingdom	644,081	British Airways, Delta, Virgin Atlantic
5	Toronto–Pearson, Canada	547,882	Air Canada, Delta
6	Mexico City, Mexico	450,045	Delta
7	Punta Cana, Dominican Republic	389,304	Delta, Southwest
8	Montego Bay, Jamaica	356,408	Delta
9	Nassau, Bahamas	317,594	Delta
10	Frankfurt, Germany	291,450	Delta, Lufthansa

Airline market share

Largest Airlines at ATL (October 2018 - September 2019)

Rank	Airline	Passengers	Share
1	Delta Air Lines	68,582,000	72.90%
2	Southwest Airlines	9,236,000	9.82%
3	Endeavor Air	4,207,000	4.47%
4	American Airlines	2,734,000	2.91%
5	Spirit Airlines	2,505,000	2.66%

Annual traffic

Traffic by calendar year

	Passengers	Change from previous year	Aircraft operations	Cargo tonnage
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
Source: Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport

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 to be a training flight for two Delta captains who were being type-rated on the 880.
• On February 25, 1969, Eastern Air Lines Flight 955 was hijacked by one passenger shortly after takeoff from ATL. The man pulled a .22 caliber pistol and demanded to be flown to Cuba. He departed in Cuba while the DC-8 was allowed to fly back to the U.S.
• On January 18, 1990, an Eastern Airlines 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 of the Eastern plane were injured.

See also

• 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

External links

• Official website
• Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport Official YouTube
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport 1961–1980
• 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 August 8, 2024
• 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