She may not be a bona fide celebrity, but Atlantans are certainly familiar with her work.
Taking the “plane train” is an essential part of navigating Atlanta’s Harstsfield-Jackson Airport for the hundreds of thousands of passengers who pass through every day.
And as they move from one terminal to the next, a familiar voice announces the train’s upcoming stop.
“B as in Bravo,” “F as in Foxtrot” or “T as in Tango” the voice on the speaker says. But who is behind the voice?
Atlanta native Sharon Feingold, according to reporting from 11Alive.
The TV station recently caught up with Feingold, a trained voice artist who has also done work for HGTV and Nickelodeon.
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Credit: Jason Getz / AJC
"Honestly, I think of it as an honor. I was born and raised here, my mother was born and raised here, my grandmother was raised here...still lives here in Atlanta — and raised here," she told 11Alive of her "plane train" role.
She added that she sees it as an opportunity to “guide passengers” in her hometown airport.
When voicing the announcements, Feingold said she looked for a balance between a conversational tone and a little bit robotic.
According to the airport, the fully automated train system transports more than 250,000 people each day through the seven concourses. The system has been operating daily since 1980.
The airport says it takes three shifts of more than 100 employees to keep the plane train running 24 hours a day. While the trains are self driving, there are always two control operators on duty.
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Credit: Jason Getz / AJC
The only time it is shut off is at 1 a.m. on Wednesday mornings for maintenance.
"From the control room, we can send commands to the train such as opening and closing doors and changing the speed profile," Arnold Williams, an airport transit tech, said in an article on the airport's website.
