Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (IATA: ATL, ICAO: KATL, FAA LID: ATL), also known as Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield Airport, and Hartsfield–Jackson, is a public airport in Atlanta, Georgia. It is the world's busiest airport by number of passengers and number of landings and take-offs since 2005. It serves 89 million passengers per year.^[2] The airport is the main hub of AirTran Airways, Delta Air Lines, and ExpressJet. The Delta hub is the world's largest airline hub. Delta Air Lines flew most (59%) of passengers from the airport in February 2011.^[3] The airport has 199 gates. It has both domestic and international gates.^[4]

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 Spirit Airlines
Elevation AMSL	1,026 ft / 313 m
Coordinates	33°38′12″N 084°25′41″W
Website	www.atl.com
Maps
FAA diagram
ATL Location of airport in Metro Atlanta Show map of Metro Atlanta ATL ATL (Georgia) Show map of Georgia ATL ATL (the United States) Show map of the United States ATL ATL (North America) Show map of 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 (2018)
Total passengers 107,394,030 Aircraft operations 895,682
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Overview

Hartsfield–Jackson was still the world's busiest airport in 2010. It had an average of 243,000 passengers each day. It also had a total of 950,119 flights. Many of the flights are flights inside the United States. Atlanta is a major hub for travel throughout the Southeastern United States.

Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport has international service to North America, South America, Central America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The airport is located mostly in unincorporated areas in Fulton and Clayton counties. The city limits of Atlanta,^[5] College Park,^[6] and Hapeville end at the airport grounds.^[7]

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport hosts the following airlines:

• Air Canada
• Air France
• Alaska Airlines
• American Airlines
• Boutique Air
• British Airways
• Continental Airlines
• Delta Airlines main Hub
• Frontier Airlines
• KLM
• Korean Air
• Lufthansa
• Qatar Airways (starts June 1)
• Southwest Airlines
• Spirit Airlines
• Turkish Airlines (starts May 16)
• United Airlines
• Virgin Atlantic

Statistics

Yearly traffic

Traffic by calendar year

	Passengers	Change from previous year	Aircraft operations (Number of planes leaving and arriving)	Cargo tonnage (Total cargo)
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	75,704,760	076.00%	707,661	734,771
2022	93,699,630	023.77%	724,145	688,614
Source: Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport[8][9]

Gallery

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  Concourse A at the airport.
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  Several planes parked at the airport.
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  An Eastern Air Lines airplane at Atlanta in 1987. Eastern used to be one of the largest airlines at the airport before it stopped flying in 1991.
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  A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 taking off from Atlanta.