Hartsfield-Jackson post sparks song lyric tweets from other airports

A tweet by Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport inspired competing airports' social media managers to show off their knowledge of Backstreet Boys song lyrics in an unusual Twitter exchange.

The Atlanta airport's Twitter account on Monday afternoon posted an image from the airport's giant screen in the domestic terminal showing Brian Littrell, a longtime Atlanta resident and member of the boy band Backstreet Boys. The screen is at the top of the escalators entering the terminal from the concourses.

Orlando international Airport’s Twitter account responded with a well-known lyric from a song by the Backstreet Boys, or perhaps posing a legitimate question.

Vancouver Airport’s Twitter account followed with the next lyric.

And so it continued:

The call-and-response goes on for some time in the 1999 Backstreet Boys hit “I Want It That Way”:

Orlando finished up the chorus, then California’s Ontario International Airport responded with some commentary.

By the way, the giant screen showing the Backstreet Boy cycles through images of various notable folks welcoming people to Atlanta. The screen last year took the place of a well-known Olympic mural, which featured a young girl with raised arms at Centennial Olympic Park.

The prospect of removing the mural had sparked an outcry from the community. A digital image of the mural is now one of the images shown in the cycle on the screen.