Atlanta Airport - Airline Service & Routes Updates Thread (Rome: cars, stations)

[testa50]

LATAM’s Lima - Atlanta flight is going to become daily next March. It’s starting 3x weekly in about a week.

[testa50]

Turkish Airlines' Istanbul-Atlanta flight going to 10x weekly (currently daily):
https://twitter.com/IshrionA/status/...909406913?s=20

Pretty surprising TBH. That's a whole lot of seats.

[cwkimbro]

Connections going eastward from that area are a big hole the Delta/Skyteam network, which leaves more limited options for O&D traffic to places like India and the Middle East and Southern Asia, so there is an opening for them.

[Atlwarrior]

Originally Posted by testa50

Turkish Airlines' Istanbul-Atlanta flight going to 10x weekly (currently daily):
https://twitter.com/IshrionA/status/...909406913?s=20

Pretty surprising TBH. That's a whole lot of seats.

Wow! Very nice. I flew Turkish back in 2016 from Atlanta to Istanbul; it was excellent service. I'm shocked Delta hasn't partnered with them. It might be a defensive move to keep Air India from using the airport incentive to launch the Atlanta to Delhi service.

[testa50]

imo if I had to bet on one airport overtaking ATL as the busiest in the world, I would take Istanbul. The new airport is a ridiculously huge facility and they have probably the best geography in the world for long haul connections.

[urbancuriosity]

Originally Posted by testa50

imo if I had to bet on one airport overtaking ATL as the busiest in the world, I would take Istanbul. The new airport is a ridiculously huge facility and they have probably the best geography in the world for long haul connections.

As many as 55 people died during the construction of the Istanbul airport. There were also concerns about human rights issues.

https://www.archpaper.com/2019/10/is...irport-deaths/

[Atlwarrior]

New worthy updates:

Construction on the of E concourse north has begun.

Beams have started going up on the D concourse widening project

DL has taken over the old US/AA gates on D concourse.

LATAM's inaugural LIM-ATL is currently en-route

[cwkimbro]

I forgot about the new Concourse E gates. Do you know if those 3 gates will have walking paths to customs to accept international flights or are they merely for domestic arrivals?


I'm a bit nervous we are falling behind on making tangible plans for adding gate concourses vs. the small tweaks to add gates. We will run out of the tweaks and it might take a decade to get a new concourse off the ground.

[testa50]

Originally Posted by cwkimbro

I forgot about the new Concourse E gates. Do you know if those 3 gates will have walking paths to customs to accept international flights or are they merely for domestic arrivals?


I'm a bit nervous we are falling behind on making tangible plans for adding gate concourses vs. the small tweaks to add gates. We will run out of the tweaks and it might take a decade to get a new concourse off the ground.

The new E gates are Domestic only.

The D rebuild is actually going to reduce gates. Basically, the northern half of D is borderline useless in today's environment (where there's not much regional-jet service to ATL anymore), and the whole thing is too narrow. So D is getting replaced wholesale to be more like A-C and handle larger aircraft. This will greatly improve capacity and user experience, domestic only.

My biggest concern is that the E split customs is a band-aid solution, and we need a proper international terminal at some point. My dad was on a flight from LHR recently that landed on E right next to the escalators to F, and many connecting pax from the flight accidentally went through customs in F. A ridiculous inconvenience for those people (they can't get their bags at F, no idea how to even solve that).

Also, there needs to be a fixed-wheel connection between international and domestic. As predicted on here many years ago before the new terminal even opened, the shuttle has become a disaster. It's stuck in traffic for so long that people end up missing their flights.

In fact, they need to revamp the entire way domestic curbside drop offs work. Traffic has become atrocious.

The list goes on...

[SEAandATL]

Originally Posted by testa50

The new E gates are Domestic only.

The D rebuild is actually going to reduce gates. Basically, the northern half of D is borderline useless in today's environment (where there's not much regional-jet service to ATL anymore), and the whole thing is too narrow. So D is getting replaced wholesale to be more like A-C and handle larger aircraft. This will greatly improve capacity and user experience, domestic only.

My biggest concern is that the E split customs is a band-aid solution, and we need a proper international terminal at some point. My dad was on a flight from LHR recently that landed on E right next to the escalators to F, and many connecting pax from the flight accidentally went through customs in F. A ridiculous inconvenience for those people (they can't get their bags at F, no idea how to even solve that).

Also, there needs to be a fixed-wheel connection between international and domestic. As predicted on here many years ago before the new terminal even opened, the shuttle has become a disaster. It's stuck in traffic for so long that people end up missing their flights.

In fact, they need to revamp the entire way domestic curbside drop offs work. Traffic has become atrocious.

The list goes on...

Plus it seems like there's only one bus that runs back and forth. We almost missed our flight because of that. My wife also complained that more recently she flew back on a flight that arrived in E, and she waited for her luggage there not knowing it was only for connecting passengers and she had to go to F to claim her luggage. That can be confusing for people who aren't familiar with the setup, and sets a negative impression to the whole world that Atlanta = the opposite of efficiency.