Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport retained its title as the world's busiest airport for 2023, even as the annual list showed significant shifts from its previous rankings.
The Business Traveler Awards picked Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport for the top airport in North America for the second year running, thanks to its proximity to hotels and on-time flights. Delta Air Lines also won four first-place rankings.
International travel is still lagging domestic travel in recovering from the pandemic. Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport wants to change that with some financial incentives to international carriers.
Officials with Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport expect more than 4.4 million passengers to travel through the airport during the spring holiday travel period — just as the airport plans to block off parts of its roadways.
On the Friday Dec. 16 edition of Georgia Today: Murder charges for the mother of the toddler found in a landfill, one of Savannah’s iconic town squares may be taking a big step to rewrite its racist past, and 5.2 million people will travel through ATL this holiday season.
On the Tuesday Dec. 13 edition of GeorgiaToday: Georgia’s Secretary of State has been subpoenaed, the deadline for open market insurance enrollment nears, and AAA says people are going to do a lot of traveling this holiday season.
AAA – The Auto Club Group, the second largest AAA club in North America, says that Thanksgiving travel in Georgia is expected to be one of the busiest travel periods since 2005.
Customs and Border Protections agriculture specialists at Hartsfield Jackson Airport recently confiscated a Giant African Snail in passenger luggage. They say the snail is an invasive species that could threaten local plants.
Comedians Eric André and Clayton English are challenging a police program at the Atlanta airport they say violates the constitutional rights of airline passengers. They say the program particularly targets Black passengers through racial profiling and coercive searches.
Law enforcement officers and their partner dogs traveled to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport from across the state recently for the first annual K-9 training conference.
Georgia airports need $1.3 billion for projects including runway extensions and terminal improvements, Carol Comer, director of the state Department of Transportation’s Intermodal Division, said Wednesday.
