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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 ...

Federal agencies have been asked to identify “nonessential” employees, who will be forced to stay home if Congress fails to pass a spending bill.

In Georgia, “anxiety, frustration, people in tears” as shutdown takes hold

The impact of the partial shutdown of the U.S. government began to emerge Tuesday across Georgia in the form of lost paychecks, padlocked attractions and uncertainty. About 2,000 employees of the Georgia National Guard were sent home, as were another 2,000 at Robins Air Force Base. But active-duty members of ...

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, ...

AirTran flight attendants approve new contract

Flight attendants at AirTran Airways will get pay raises under a new labor contract approved Monday.The flight attendants voted to approve the new deal as they wait for the completion of AirTran’s integration into higher-paying Southwest Airlines.Under the new contract, AirTran’s roughly 1,700 flight attendants will get an immediate 3 ...

AirTran flight attendants approve new contract

Flight attendants at AirTran Airways will get pay raises under a new labor contract approved Monday.The flight attendants voted to approve the new deal as they wait for AirTran’s integration into higher-paying Southwest Airlines to be complete.Under the new contract, AirTran’s roughly 1,700 flight attendants will get an immediate 3 ...

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 ...

Delta-Virgin Atlantic deal gets final approval

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines on Monday received final approval for a deal with British carrier Virgin Atlantic Airways aimed at bolstering its competitive position in the crucial trans-Atlantic market for flights across the pond. The approval is the final piece needed for the full rollout of a partnership launched with ...

Private jet firm Jet Linx opens at PDK airport

Private jet provider Jet Linx has opened at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, specializing in jet cards that allow customers to prepay for flight time and offering access to a small network of private jet facilities around the country. Omaha-based Jet Linx partnered with former Days Inn chief executive John Snodgrass to open ...

Delta-Virgin Atlantic deal gets final approval

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines on Monday received final approval for a deal with British carrier Virgin Atlantic, aimed at bolstering its competitive position in the crucial trans-Atlantic market. The approval is the final piece needed for the full rollout of a partnership launched with Delta’s purchase of a 49 percent ...

A pay phone is shown in the North Terminal baggage claim area at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport Thursday afternoon in Atlanta, Ga., September 12, 2013. The world’s busiest airport wants to set its pay phones free. Hartsfield-Jackson International plans to replace all of its payphones with phones that allow free calls supported by advertising. All of these pay phones will be replaced with free phones.

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 ...

Delta rejoins S&P 500 index

Delta Air Lines is rejoining Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index for the first time since 2005 when the carrier filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The move signals a return to financial stability for Atlanta’s dominant airline. Delta will be added to the S&P 500 after the close of trading ...

“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 ...

Delta to give pay raises in 2014

Delta Air Lines is giving pay raises to most of its nearly 80,000 employees next year after reporting record quarterly profits earlier this year.Atlanta-based Delta said it will give customer-facing employees raises of up to 3 percent effective April 1, following previous rounds of pay increases. Meanwhile, other employees will ...

UPS to buy two Costa Rican companies

Sandy Springs-based UPS announced it will buy two Costa Rican companies to bolster connections with the Central American country’s expanding economy. The two companies — small package delivery company Union Pak de Costa Rica S.A. and brokerage company SEISA Brokerage — have about 100 employees and 60 employees, respectively. UPS ...

Delta orders 40 Airbus jets

Delta Air Lines has ordered 40 Airbus planes worth more than $5 billion based on list price, marking the airline’s first purchase from Airbus in more than 20 years. The order of 10 international wide-body A330-300s and 30 domestic narrow-body A321s will allow Atlanta-based Delta to renew its fleet with ...

AirTran flight attendants union reaches contract deal

The flight attendants union at AirTran Airways said it has reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract, which would give the flight attendants new terms for pay and benefits until they complete their transition to Southwest Airlines. The next step is for flight attendants at AirTran to vote ...

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