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Hypersonic plane startup Hermeus plans to open a factory in Atlanta. Source: Hermeus
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Hypersonic plane startup plans Doraville aircraft factory
A Surfliner train by Amtrak travels along the collapsing bluffs in Del Mar, California. (John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS)
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Amtrak’s new catchphrase might sound familiar
Passengers wait to board a Southwest Airlines flight at Dallas Love Field on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, in Dallas. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News/TNS)
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Southwest No. 1 in Airline Quality Rating
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The ATL West deck at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
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Hartsfield-Jackson debuts new parking deck Saturday
Delta CEO Ed Bastian arrives to unveil the new A220 aircraft while celebrating the 10-year anniversary of merging with Northwest at the Delta Air Lines TechOps on October 29, 2018, in Atlanta. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)
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Delta CEO Bastian took pay cut in 2020, but still got stock incentives
A Delta Air Lines employee handles a passenger's luggage while wearing goggle, gloves and a face mask in the domestic terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta on Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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Customer scores for Delta, US airlines hit record in pandemic - study
Flint River south of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, with the approach lights of the fifth runway in the background.
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Hartsfield-Jackson fined for sewage spills
ExpressJet, which shut down, filed documents to begin operating as an independent carrier.
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Defunct ExpressJet seeks to return as independent airline
Travelers wearing face masks make their way to security checkpoints at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on Thursday, July 2, 2020. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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China airport passes Hartsfield-Jackson as world’s busiest in passengers
The Delta Sky Club that opened in 2016 on Concourse B at Hartsfield-Jackson
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Hartsfield-Jackson budgets $33 million to fund new Delta Sky Club
A Delta plane sits at the International Terminal at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport with a solitary traveler waiting for a flight amid new European travel restrictions on Monday, March 16, 2020, in Atlanta. International and domestic air travel were hammered by the coronavirus in 2020. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)
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Average airfares fell to a record low in 2020
A sign reading, 'masks required in this area,' is seen as travelers prepare to check-in for their Delta Air Lines flight at the Miami International Airport on Feb. 1, 2021 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/TNS)
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UPDATE: Delta turns corner, generates cash after burning through it
Delta Air Lines is bringing more snacks back to its in-flight service starting April 14, 2021. Source: Delta
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Delta brings back more in-flight beverages, snacks
The ATL West deck at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
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Hartsfield-Jackson using new ATL West parking deck as lots fill up
FILE - In this Friday, March 19, 2021 file photo, an airliner lands at Tampa International Airport in Tampa, Fla. On Sunday, March 21, more than 1.5 million people streamed through U.S. airport security checkpoints, the largest number since the pandemic tightened its grip on the United States more than a year ago. However, passenger traffic remains far below 2019 levels. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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AAA: More Georgia residents willing to travel as vaccinations expand
04/14/2020 - Atlanta, Georgia - The Frontier Airlines self check-in kiosks at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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Frontier Airlines to expand in Atlanta this summer
Travelers wearing face masks check in through plexiglass dividers at Delta counters at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Thursday, July 2, 2020.(Hyosub Shin /Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Delta’s Easter flight cancellations trickle into Monday
11/23/2020 � Atlanta, Georgia �Airport guests crowd the North Domestic Terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta , Monday, November 23, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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Spirit Airlines seeks more gates at Hartsfield-Jackson
Balram Bheodari (right) will be interim manger of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
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Atlanta mayor names Balram Bheodari interim manager of Hartsfield-Jackson
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian speaks during profit sharing event at Delta TechOps in Atlanta, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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Coke, Delta oppose Georgia’s ‘unacceptable’ voting law
Travelers check in through plexiglass dividers at Delta at Hartsfield-Jackson. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Delta to fill middle seats again, ending pandemic distancing policy
Voting-rights activists call for a boycott of Delta Air Lines during a protest at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, March 25, 2021. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times)
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Delta, Coke face boycott campaigns over new Georgia voting law
A Qatar Airways Boeing 787 airplane transporting medical protective gear donated by the government of Qatar, lands at Sarajevo International Airport on May 19, 2020, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Elvis Barukcic/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)
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Airlines adding summer flights
Travelers check in through plexiglass dividers at Delta at Hartsfield-Jackson. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson was busiest U.S. airport in 2020
Hartsfield-Jackson general manager John Selden. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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Hartsfield-Jackson general manager to leave job
Signs posted along the broadwalk on the beach in Hollywood Florida advocate for people to wear a mask unless exercising 6 feet away from others in September 2020. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS)
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Vacation innovation: Pandemic has Georgians reroute plans for time off
It was a smooth process Monday, March 15 afternoon at the mass vaccination site at Habersham County Fairgrounds in Clarkesville. With expanded eligibility, the daily number of vaccines administered was more than doubled to 2,100.
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Delta offers miles for donations toward Lyft rides to vaccine sites
File photo of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Thursday, July 2, 2020. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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FAA extends strict policy for unruly air passengers amid mask clashes
Delta jet prepares to take off at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
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Improving air travel demand brings Delta close to financial turnaround
Travelers check in through plexiglass dividers at Delta at Hartsfield-Jackson. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Delta expects to get $2.5 billion from stimulus funding
Delta renamed a building in honor of Andrew Young on March 22, 2021.
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Delta names building at headquarters in honor of Andrew Young
11/23/2020 � Atlanta, Georgia �An airport passenger leaves the Domestic Terminal lobby Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta , Monday, November 23, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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U.S. airlines’ passenger counts plummeted 60% in 2020
September 6, 2012 - Atlanta - Runway and taxiway traffic at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Taxiing, takeoff and landing remain the most dangerous parts of an airline trip.In 2010 an airliner accidentally landed on a taxiway at Hartsfield-Jackson. To prevent collisions at airports, the feds closely track runway incursions, use alert systems and have improved airfield layouts, but the world s busiest airport still had about 18 runway incursions in 2011. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM
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Hartsfield-Jackson to move forward on end-around taxiway
UPS is shipping out its first round of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Source: UPS
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UPS shipping out first batch of Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine
In this file photo, Delta pilots arrive from Stuttgart in the International Terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Monday, March 16, 2020, in Atlanta. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)
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Delta Air Lines plans to have all pilots back on duty by fall
A man (left) sleeps on the ground in the domestic terminal of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport as flight passengers (right) walk toward security on Friday, February 7, 2020, in Atlanta. Many of Atlanta’s homeless sleep overnight in the airport’s domestic terminal when the city experiences frigid winter temperatures. The man (left) wished not to be identified. (Christina Matacotta/crmatacotta@gmail.com)
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Atlanta airport’s approach to homeless outlined in proposed ordinance
Delta Air Lines headquarters. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
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Delta pays bonuses to managers; no profit-sharing payouts for workers
A member of a Delta ground crew prepares a jet for departure at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in this file photo. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
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Deloitte and Delta partner to cut emissions with sustainable fuel
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Thursday, July 2, 2020. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Hartsfield-Jackson to sign secret shoppers contract
Delta flight carrying 77 to Atlanta goes off taxiway in Pittsburgh
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Delta reviewing incident of plane sliding off taxiway in Pittsburgh
TRAINING FIRE--Atlanta firefighters work to extinguish a fire during a live burn training exercise at the Atlanta Fire Rescue Department training facility at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Thursday, April 7, 2016, in Atlanta. The exercise is part of an annual certification for airport rescue firefighters. BRANDEN CAMP/SPECIAL
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Airport to rent out former training center to Atlanta Fire Rescue
Travelers check in through plexiglass dividers at Delta at Hartsfield-Jackson. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
Atlanta Airport Blog
Airline workforce shrank significantly amid pandemic
February 5, 2021 Duluth - Nurse Kacy Bagwell gives a health care worker Martha Lynch (left) a COVID-19 vaccine ahead of the opening of the mass COVID-19 vaccination center at the former Sears building in Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth on Friday, February 5, 2021. Gwinnett County Government and the Gwinnett, Newton and Rockdale County Health Departments worked together to convert the bottom floor of the former Sears building at Gwinnett Place Mall into a mass vaccination center that will accommodate immunizing up to 3,000 people a day as vaccines become available, (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
Atlanta Airport Blog
Delta plans to offer vaccinations to employees ages 65 and older
The Frontier Airlines check-in area inside the domestic terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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Frontier Airlines to open Atlanta crew base
Man holding a passport with COVID-19 sign stamped onto a white paper. SITA has launched HealthProtect for airlines to share health information. Source: SITA
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Travel tech industry developing health passport apps
At the security check point, TSA employee Phillip Oree clears a passenger who used facial recognition for screening. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM
Atlanta Airport Blog
Delta rolls out facial recognition for domestic travel at Detroit airport
In this file photo, cleaning crew thoroughly wipe down an aircraft cabin on Concourse A at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)
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Workers for airport, airline contractors endure job turmoil
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