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Aerial view of ATL in 2024. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (IATA: ATL, ICAO: KATL, FAA LID: ATL) is the primary international airport serving Atlanta and its surrounding metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Georgia. The airport is located 10 mi (16 km; 8.7 nmi) south of the Downtown Atlanta district.
An ASA CRJ-200 at Memphis International Airport. Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) was a regional airline in the United States based in the A-Tech Center in College Park, Georgia, flying to 144 destinations as a Delta Connection carrier on behalf of Delta Air Lines via a code sharing agreement and, as of February 2010, commenced service as a ...
On May 25, 1979, American Airlines Flight 191, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 on a Memorial Day weekend flight to Los Angeles International Airport, had its left engine detach while taking off from runway 32R, then stalled and crashed into a field some 4,600 feet (1,400 m) away. 273 died, including two on the ground, in the deadliest single-aircraft ...
American Airlines, Inc. American Airlines is a major airline in the United States headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is the largest airline in the world when measured by scheduled passengers carried, revenue passenger mile, and daily flights. American, together with its regional partners and ...
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (IATA: DFW, ICAO: KDFW, FAA LID: DFW) is the primary international airport serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and the North Texas region, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the largest hub for American Airlines, which is headquartered near the airport, [2] and is the third-busiest airport in the ...
United Airlines, American Airlines, Eastern Airlines, and TWA signed 10-year leases with the airport which ended in 1938. Then they would pay on a month-to-month basis until LaGuardia Airport opened in December 1939; [ 26 ] [ 27 ] by the middle of 1940, all passenger airlines had left Newark, no longer making it the world's busiest airport.
Jet service began ROC in 1965 on American Airlines Boeing 727s, but the two longest runways, 10–28 (5,500 feet (1,700 m)) and 1–19 (5,000 feet (1,500 meters)) were short for jets. In 1967 Monroe County built runway 4–22, initially 7,000 feet (2,100 meters) and extended in 1969 to 8,002 feet (2,439 m) (bypassing the 8,000 feet (2,400 ...
Denver International Airport (IATA: DEN, ICAO: KDEN, FAA LID: DEN) is an international airport in the Western United States, primarily serving metropolitan Denver, Colorado, as well as the greater Front Range Urban Corridor. At 33,531 acres (52.4 sq mi; 135.7 km 2), [ 6 ][ 7 ] it is the largest airport in the Western Hemisphere by land area and ...