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Paulding’s airfield of dreams faces obstacles
Go from your car to the gate in fewer than 15 minutes. That’s one of Mario Rodriguez’s pitches to convince fliers to choose Long Beach Airport over Los Angeles International, 20 miles away. Long Beach handles only about 5 percent of the traffic of bustling LAX, but it preaches convenience ...
Delta: Paulding airport plan will fail
Plans to bring airline service to Paulding County’s tiny airport drew quick criticism Friday from two giant opponents: Delta Air Lines and the city of Atlanta. “With the city of Atlanta and Mayor (Kasim) Reed, we will work together to oppose any investment in that facility,” Delta chief executive Richard ...
Delta vows to fight Paulding airline flights
Delta Air Lines’ top executive said Friday the Atlanta-based carrier will fight a plan to add commercial air service at a small regional airport in Paulding County. “With the city of Atlanta and Mayor (Kasim) Reed, we will work together to oppose any investment in that facility,” Delta chief executive ...
Airport solicits proposals for barbershop
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is holding a pre-proposal conference for companies interested in building and operating a barbershop in the airport terminal. The pre-proposal conference will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at the airport’s Technical Support campus at 1255 South Loop Road in College Park. The airport held a similar ...
Q&A on the News
Q: Reading the article about the arrival of the Airbus A380 reminded me of the 1960s, when my dad would take us to the observation deck of the old Atlanta airport to watch the planes. Does Hartsfield-Jackson have an observation deck, and if so, where is it? If it doesn’t, ...
Airport’s environmental efforts face many challenges
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport’s director of sustainability, Michael Cheyne, envisions airport solar arrays, an airport composting center and electric vehicle charging stations.But for the world’s busiest airport, it’s not easy going green.Challenges abound in the many other efforts the Atlanta airport is making to improve its environmental standing, and it has ...
Atlanta airport aims to open barbershop
Hartsfield-Jackson International is seeking businesses interested in operating the world’s busiest airport’s first barbershop. The Atlanta airport had planned to open a Jakki Colours hair salon in the airport atrium several years ago, but the salon never opened. Now, Hartsfield-Jackson wants to open a 1,349-square-foot barbershop. A pre-proposal conference for ...
$400 million Powerball jackpot won in South Carolina
Sorry, Georgia Lottery players, but a single Powerball ticket sold in Lexington, S.C., is worth an estimated $400 million after matching all six numbers in Wednesday night’s drawing. Two Georgia Lottery players matched the first five numbers – 7, 10, 22, 32 and 35, but not the Power Ball of ...
More Delta passengers getting Porsche lifts
Delta Air Lines is expanding a perk at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport that shuttles some of its highest-paying customers in Porsches to connecting flights.The program for Delta Diamond Medallion customers has been at Hartsfield-Jackson since 2011. Now it will be expanded to New York, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, according to a ...
Minneapolis power outage caused long lines at Atlanta airport
A power outage in Minneapolis on Tuesday resulted in thousands of passengers across the country, including AirTran Airways customers, being checked into their flights manually by airline staff.Around 5:30 p.m. Eastern time, a temporary power outage shut down the storage system of reservation technology company Navitaire, based in Minneapolis. The ...
Q&A on the News
Q: There has been much in the news lately about the high number of firearms confiscated by the Transportation Security Administration at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. What happens to the firearms after they are discovered? Are they returned to the owners? — Kathy Geroski, AtlantaA: All firearms are immediately confiscated and ...
Airport to replace pay phones with free ones
The world’s busiest airport wants to set its pay phones free. Hartsfield-Jackson International officials plan to replace all pay phones with phones that allow free calls, with advertising providing the revenue. It’s a reflection of changing times: Cell phones have turned pay phones into relics from an earlier age. Many ...
MARTA may up train service frequency
After years of service cuts and fare hikes, MARTA is profitable again and planning to reinvest in beefed up rail service.More trains could be running on weekdays during rush hour and on weekends as early as December. MARTA has set a Sept. 19 public hearing on that proposal.The improvements proposed ...
“Absolutely beautiful, the sheer monster size of it”
Airport workers stopped their tugs to watch. Catering employees came out to take a look. A child atop the Terminal South parking garage stood on a cooler for a better view. Dozens of adults pulled out their cameras and smartphones to capture a piece of history. And, yes, time stood ...
Atlanta celebrates A380 super-jumbo jet
The world’s biggest airliner is now serving the world’s busiest airport — and all it took was several years, $30 million and a gleam in Louis Miller’s eye to make it happen. Miller, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport’s general manager, on Friday celebrated the new A380 flights to Atlanta on Korean Air’s ...
Forecast features five straight rain-free days
Metro Atlantans tuning in to Channel 2 early Wednesday were greeted with a sight rarely seen during the soggy summer of 2013: a five-day forecast with no mention of rain. Since June 1, Atlanta has seen only three such rain-free stretches. The city’s official rain gauge at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport ...
Delta flight forced to return to Hartsfield-Jackson
A Delta Air Lines flight bound for Jacksonville, Fla., returned to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Friday after an on-board warning that there was a potential issue with the aircraft’s flaps, a Delta spokesman said.Spokesman Michael Thomas said the crew of Flight 1186 followed routine procedures for returning the Boeing 757 ...
World’s biggest jetliner scheduled for first Hartsfield-Jackson departure today
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is set to hit a milestone today with the scheduled launch of flights from Atlanta on the world’s largest passenger airliner — the Airbus A380 super jumbo jet. After earlier delays in its plans, Korean Air’s flight from Atlanta to Seoul on the 407-seat double-decker A380 is ...
Small airline sees niche at PDK
A small start-up airline plans scheduled flights to a handful of Southern cities from DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, the latest attempt to tap a travel market dominated by major carriers at Hartsfield-Jackson International. Southern Airways Express, which started flying in June from its home base in Memphis, said it will offer four ...
Airport tries to combat guns found at security
Licensed gun owners who bring their firearms to the security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport will generally end up in Clayton County jail. But they’re free to carry them anywhere else in the terminal, ever since a 2010 state law allowed it. Hartsfield-Jackson has now become the No. 1 airport ...
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