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It was established as Candler Field and, in 1946 that was renamed as Atlanta Municipal airport. Under the administration of Mayor Maynard Jackson, the construction was begun on the midfield terminal in the month of January, 1977. it was the largest construction project in the South costing $500 million. Atlanta’s former mayor William Berry Hartsfield, who did much to promote air travel was honored by keeping the name as William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, which was opened on September 21 in the year of 1980.

At present, Atlanta airport, locally known as Hartsfield Airport, Hartsfield-Jackson or simply Hartsfield is internationally known as Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (IATA: ATL, ICAO: KATL, FAA LID: ATL). This gorgeous structure is located seven miles south of the central business district of Atlanta, Georgia in United States. The airport is partly located within the southern city limits of the Atlanta. The city of College Park, Georgia, which is in south of the city limits of Atlanta, is just adjacent to the airport. The counties in which, the Atlanta airport comes are Clayton and Fulton.

An Importance

Atlanta Airport has been considered to be world’s busiest airport by means of passenger traffics and its daily take-offs and landings of flights. Added to this, the Delta Air Lines operates the world’s largest airline hub from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport. As an international gateway to the United States, Atlanta Airport stands seventh being far down from JFK International Airport in NYC ranking first.

In the year 2006, this busiest airport reported accommodating 84.8 million passengers and 976,447 flights. Although, many of the flights are domestic flights, Atlanta airport serves as a major transfer point for flights to and from Southern United States’ smaller cities. That is why, about 55% of the Atlanta Airport passengers are from other towns and cities and not from proper Atlanta.

As far as the employment is concerned, Atlanta airport holds the largest employment center in the State of Georgia, as it employs nearly about 55300 airline, federal government, security, ground transportation, concessionaire, Airport tenant employees and many other related to the air transportation services. Having a payroll of $2.4 billion, the airport impacts the economy; directly and indirectly. A total annual, regional economic impact of more than $18.7 billion goes in the name of Atlanta airport. Other than Canada and United States, Atlanta airport also handles air traffic to other parts of the world including North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe.

The structure and arrangement

Atlanta airport has two main terminals where passengers check in. These are South Terminal and North Terminal. Though these are terminals, but in reality, these are nothing but north and south sides of the one large building. The middle part of the building is called as main terminal where the security screening is done before passengers move to their flights. Airside concourses are tackled very successfully in the distance from the terminal. They are given the name as Concourses T, A, B, C, D and E.

There are moving sidewalks and an underground ‘people mover’ train that connects concourses and the terminal building. For better connectivity, airport has its own train station on the city’s rapid transit system called MARTA. The train station lies inside the main building as a part of the airport.