New Atlanta airport master plan eyes new gates, sixth runway (Dallas: real estate, buying)

[kayoticworld]

Originally Posted by jsvh

Yep, the map shows the TOC area remaining. I was just speculating on potential future plans beyond this.

Sorry, misunderstaning on my part. I thought you were replying to me originally when I stated it look like they were demolishing cargo and gate gourmet. I see what you meant now..... BTW.....it would take a lot to take down the TOC. Not sure they are willing to tackle that, but who knows in a world where we are willing to spend a billion dollars on one interchange......

[emcee squared]

Originally Posted by cqholt

HJIA is continually ranked as one of the easiest navigable airports by business travelers.

And yet there are constantly people in the A Concourse standing in front of A-24 who are lost and need to ask you for help to find A-30.

Seriously, it has to be the easiest place to get around, provided you know the Plane Train exists, which some people don't.

[testa50]

In Minneapolis Delta/Skyteam has a special strategy of removing ALL non-Skyteam airlines from the main airport complex and relocating them to a smaller facility south of the airport. Similar strategy was long discussed here as well.

For the current plan, it seems like jamming all non-ST airlines into F, G, and H could be workable. The other airlines would have an excellent O/D setup with gates extremely close to curb. Delta would have the entire existing north/south concourse for its own use. Win/win. This is what I'm really hoping happens, rather than keeping all the other airlines split up between T/C/D/E/F and then putting random stuff in the new G and H. I do wonder if the 30-odd gates in G and H are enough for all of this, however.

[testa50]

Oh, another wish: once you build G and H and are ready to turn them over to non-Skyteam airlines, vacate D and raze the damned thing. Build another B in its place. D is just insanely undersized as it is.

[cqholt]

The Memphis Airport Is on a Mission to Become Its Own City - CityLab

[arjay57]

Good article, cq.

[J2201987]

Originally Posted by afdinatl

We don't need another airport. Just keep expanding the one we have unless they can by some land next to a Marta station

It would be interesting if there was a MARTA station on the east side of the airport (which was allegedly part of the plan to spur off from East point to Clayton County via Hapeville).

[rorqual]

Interesting question: Hartsfield manages to be the "worlds busiest" because Atlanta refuses to construct a new airport. I would guess that Chicago and Dallas handle more flights than Atlanta (those two cities also support two airports).

[Scared to Life]

I think, without doing math, that Atlanta is by far the busiest of the top 50 airports. I did look at Chicago for Midway and O'hare and it still looked like it was less that ATL

[magnetar]

Originally Posted by rorqual

Interesting question: Hartsfield manages to be the "worlds busiest" because Atlanta refuses to construct a new airport. I would guess that Chicago and Dallas handle more flights than Atlanta (those two cities also support two airports).

"Refuses to construct", he said, as though it were somehow preferable to not have a single airport from which you can fly to nearly any North American city and many international ones. As if Atlanta would be somehow better off if for some flights you had to drive out to the middle of nowhere instead of taking the train to ATL, or travelers would be happier if they had to transfer from one airport to another for connecting international flights.