
Frontier, Southwest and Spirit are big players at the Atlanta airport, too. The relative certainty that flights will get in and out with little problem - and the ability to offer more flights because of that certainty - means that Atlanta is an attractive place for low-cost airlines. (Unlike places like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and many others, in Atlanta, there's not another big airport within 150 miles.) The weather is generally good - meaning fewer delays and canceled flights - and there is little competition for the airspace around Hartsfield-Jackson.

population lives within a two-hour flight of ATL. According to Hartsfield-Jackson, more than 80 percent of the U.S. That's no doubt the biggest reason that so many people find themselves in the Capital of the New South - or at least in the city's airport - every year.īut Atlanta, the city, has advantages other than Delta that make it a good place to fly into and out of, not to mention a smart spot for airlines to do business. Hartsfield-Jackson also topped the list as the world's busiest in aircraft movements, with 724,000 movements, a 2.3 percent increase over 2021. "Our success is a direct result of our commitment to providing exceptional customer service, investing in state-of-the-art technology, and collaborating with our partners to create a seamless travel experience." "We are thrilled to once again receive the honor of being named the world's busiest airport," airport general manager Balram "B" Bheodari said in a press statement. That's a 23.8 percent over 2021's traffic total when many people were just getting back to traveling again by plane.


More than 93 million passengers scurried along ATL's lengthy concourses, rode its underground train (the Plane Train) and were lifted up and down its vertigo-inducing escalators in 2022, making it the busiest passenger airport in the world. 1 spot for 22 consecutive years before it was knocked out in 2020 by the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in Southern China.
