ATL

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I have just passed through Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport for the first time.
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Regrettably, I was forced to eat my faithful sherpa, who died from exposure, in the course of the 8-day journey from Terminal A to the baggage claim. That I had to sleep inside a Tauntaun carcass seems almost pleasant in comparison to the fate which befell that poor sherpa.
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13 thoughts on “ATL”

  • Nan says:

    Wimps. The airport isn't that bad — most people make it from the gate to baggage claim in under 48 hours — and driving's easy once you figure out the secret to survival is to never ever get on to I-285.

  • Samantha says:

    what?! having grown up with hartsfield as my example of what an airport is, i am baffled by the half-assery with which nearly all other US airports i've been to seem to have been thrown together (i haven't been to o'hare). yes, hartsfield is humongous, but i think it's well laid-out, directionally well marked, and incredibly efficient with the security check points. plus, we have giant ants crawling on the steel trusses above our baggage claim area. you just have to remember to allow extra time and pack snacks and reading material. sorry about your sherpa.

  • Daniel says:

    If anyone has been to the new Indianapolis International, that's how you build an airport. It takes about 5 min to get from your landed plane to baggage claim. Of course Atlanta is a bigger city with more complications, hence the hassle. Here's another tip. The Newark Airport is an impenetrable fortress where an outgoing flight has never left on time, nor has an incoming flight ever landed in time. If you like browsing magazine kiosks, you'll have the time of your life in Newark. If you have a layover in Newark be braced to miss your connecting flight.

  • Ed says:

    ATL is obviously just one of those 1950s/1960s airports that are now handling traffic levels far, far in excess of any of the planners imagined. It's just like a highway with bumper-to-bumper traffic – there's nothing wrong with the road except for the volume of traffic fighting to use limited space.

    That said, the distances between and among the key user-end parts of Hartsfield are ridiculous. While they may be laid out logically, it is by no means a shining example to which other airports should aspire.

    Indy is amazing, but it has the advantage of being designed for modern airport needs. Many of the famously cluster-fucked airports (JFK, Dulles, LGA, O'Hare, etc) are fundamentally flawed by their age. They were designed for different planes, fewer of them, and different passenger needs.

  • OliverWendelHolmslice says:

    "This may smell bad kid, but at least you'll be warm…and I thought they smelled bad on the outside."

  • D.N. Nation says:

    I can understand feeling this way if you're going from the international terminal to baggage, but dude…you felt like A-to-baggage was some Herculean effort? Really?

  • D.N. Nation says:

    "That said, the distances between and among the key user-end parts of Hartsfield are ridiculous."

    Sure, but they're 1) highly logical and 2) L-A-B-E-L-E-D (Logan, I'm looking in your direction). Show me an airport of Atlanta's scope- that is to say, one of the world's most important- that's easier to figure out than Hartsfield.

    Getting from entrance to gate (I take MARTA, so parking's not an issue) may take a little while, but I never feel flustered/confused/homicidal. That's really the hangup on air travel for me, not the time it takes going from point A to B in an airport.

    "ATL is obviously just one of those 1950s/1960s airports that are now handling traffic levels far, far in excess of any of the planners imagined."

    Think about what Hartsfield is really for, though: Connections. Most people who fly through the ATL never go to baggage claim.

  • Erik Moore says:

    The terminals are laid out like this:
    Baggage Claim – T – A – B – C – D – E
    If you took the train from terminal A to Baggage Claim, it should have taken you 3-5 minutes……if you took the train…if you walked, maybe 20 minutes?
    I have been through Chicago, Philly, NYC, LAX, New Orleans, Miami, Buffalo, Detroit, Boston, Charlotte, Puerto Rico, Aruba, St. Thomas & Heathrow's airports…….the ATL is the easiest to figure out….by far

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