Atlanta Airport - Airline Service & Routes Updates Thread (friendly, counties)

[alco89]

If and when a 2nd airport gets built, it would be 50-60 miles outside of the city due to NIMBYs. Everyone likes the idea of having quick access to the airport until it's time to live near one.

[JPD]

Originally Posted by alco89

If and when a 2nd airport gets built, it would be 50-60 miles outside of the city due to NIMBYs. Everyone likes the idea of having quick access to the airport until it's time to live near one.

I think you'll find that people who feel that way are uppity in general. Or racist. I moved close to the airport last year and I love it. There is usually little to no airplane noise (which has been surprising), I can go sit on restaurant patios and watch planes come and go, I can be home from a trip within minutes of exiting the airport, and I rarely have to wait more than two minutes for a MARTA train. To be fair, as with all airports, there are industrial areas around that aren't inviting, and some other drawbacks, but it's easy, particularly in Atlanta, to find good places to live near the airport.

[SAAN]

Originally Posted by JPD

I think you'll find that people who feel that way are uppity in general. Or racist. I moved close to the airport last year and I love it. There is usually little to no airplane noise (which has been surprising), I can go sit on restaurant patios and watch planes come and go, I can be home from a trip within minutes of exiting the airport, and I rarely have to wait more than two minutes for a MARTA train. To be fair, as with all airports, there are industrial areas around that aren't inviting, and some other drawbacks, but it's easy, particularly in Atlanta, to find good places to live near the airport.

You must live either directly North or South of the airport, because if you are East or West in the paths of the runways, you will have PLENTY of noise.

[JPD]

Originally Posted by SAAN

You must live either directly North or South of the airport, because if you are East or West in the paths of the runways, you will have PLENTY of noise.

Well, sure, but the comment I was responding to was about living near an airport. There are plenty of good places to live near airports. I obviously understand that it would be loud if you lived right next to the end of the runway.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by walker1962

I remember way back in the early 1990s, a study commissioned to build a second airport and a site in Gwinnett was chosen. Well, 25 years later...NOTHING! I remember talk of talk of converting Dobbins way back when as well. Again NOTHING. Talk of expanding HJ International further? It took $3 billion and how many years to add just ONE runway 12 years ago? Atlanta/Georgia State governor need to get SERIOUS and get a second damn passenger airport, at least one that serves domestic travel, like Love Field in Dallas or Midway in Chicago or Hobby in Houston (until SW built an international terminal 3 years ago).


No metro area with over 5 million people or over serving 50 million in annual passenger traffic should have a single airport! NYC, D.C., San Francisco/Oakland, D/FW, Houston, Chicago, L.A., and southeast Florida all have at least two airports people can use. Hell, if you live between San Antonio and Austin, you are within 35miles of each city's airports.

Please refer the Airport Master Plan thread. HJIA is the only airport in the world to handle 100M passengers and does it efficiently.
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[atler8]

I found this new blurb on the Norwegian Airlines expansion into the Chicago market via Chicago's biz news publication.
News of the expansion plans by that carrier for further entry into the North American market first became known to me late last year.
Has anyone heard anything about a similar move into the Atlanta market by Norwegian?

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/...-gets-bad.html

[Atlwarrior]

Originally Posted by atler8

I found this new blurb on the Norwegian Airlines expansion into the Chicago market via Chicago's biz news publication.
News of the expansion plans by that carrier for further entry into the North American market first became known to me late last year.
Has anyone heard anything about a similar move into the Atlanta market by Norwegian?

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/...-gets-bad.html

Nope, but with British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, and Delta having flights to Heathrow. I'm sure Norwegian should be looking at the Atlanta market.

[cwkimbro]

Originally Posted by JPD

I think you'll find that people who feel that way are uppity in general. Or racist. I moved close to the airport last year and I love it. There is usually little to no airplane noise (which has been surprising), I can go sit on restaurant patios and watch planes come and go, I can be home from a trip within minutes of exiting the airport, and I rarely have to wait more than two minutes for a MARTA train. To be fair, as with all airports, there are industrial areas around that aren't inviting, and some other drawbacks, but it's easy, particularly in Atlanta, to find good places to live near the airport.

I don't think your wrong, but I also think it depends on where.

This is a very good map produced researching the noise affects of airports and freeways

https://maps.bts.dot.gov/arcgis/apps...464cc0e9d5c9fb

I think the flight path alignment affects it the most.

Now two things are worth noting. Parts of this map are out-dated. PDK has removed one of the cross-winds runway, which hasn't been altered on the map.

Also, on the smaller airports the extreme extents only occur when certain types of planes and flight patterns are in-use, which they aren't at all times.

[Soccernerd]

Cities like Chicago, Dallas, and Houston have airports because the older airport (Midway, Love, and Hobby) got replaced by a newer airport with room to grow into (ORD, DFW, and IAH).

Atlanta has chosen to continually to expand and rebuild its airport. I don’t think a regional commission or the state will invest in an airport that could serve ten million people per year. I think at best you’d get an airport opening thirty miles from Downtown that is served by Allegient with flights to Florida and to underutilized airports in the Northeast.

[Atlwarrior]

Originally Posted by Soccernerd

Cities like Chicago, Dallas, and Houston have airports because the older airport (Midway, Love, and Hobby) got replaced by a newer airport with room to grow into (ORD, DFW, and IAH).

Atlanta has chosen to continually to expand and rebuild its airport. I don’t think a regional commission or the state will invest in an airport that could serve ten million people per year. I think at best you’d get an airport opening thirty miles from Downtown that is served by Allegient with flights to Florida and to underutilized airports in the Northeast.

True but the city decision to turn Candler into Hartsfield was a wise one. Many of the newer airports copy Hartfields parallel runway model. I’m just amazed at how many people this airport moves efficiently.