Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Airport serving Atlanta, Georgia, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (IATA: ATL, ICAO: KATL, FAA LID: ATL) is the primary international airport serving Atlanta and its surrounding metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Georgia. The airport is located 10 miles (16 km; 8.7 nmi) south of the Downtown Atlanta district. It is named after former Atlanta mayors William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson.[4][5] The airport covers 4,700 acres (7.3 sq mi; 19 km2) of land and has five parallel runways which are aligned in an east-west direction. There are three runways that are 9,000 feet (2,743 m) long, one runway that is 10,000 feet (3,048 m) long, and the longest runway at ATL measures 12,390 feet (3,776 m) long, which can handle the Airbus A380.[6][5][7] Since 1998, Hartsfield-Jackson has been the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic. In 2023, the airport served over 104.6 million passengers, the most of any airport in the world.[8]
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owner/Operator | Atlanta Department of Aviation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Serves | Metro Atlanta | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Clayton and Fulton counties, Georgia, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | September 15, 1926; 97 years ago (1926-09-15) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hub for | Delta Air Lines | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elevation AMSL | 1,026 ft / 313 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°38′12″N 84°25′41″W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | atl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport[3] |
Hartsfield–Jackson is the corporate headquarters and 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[9][10] and is considered the first mega-hub in America.[11] Additionally, Hartsfield–Jackson is also the home of Delta's Technical Operations Center, which is the airline's primary maintenance, repair and overhaul arm.[12] 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.[13]
The airport is mostly in unincorporated areas of Clayton County,[14] but it spills into the city limits of Atlanta,[15] College Park,[16] and Hapeville,[17] in territory extending into Fulton County. The airport's domestic terminal is served by MARTA's Red and Gold rail lines.