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: The airport maintains its own platform, ATL Stories , to highlight local heroes, like a 13-year-old aspiring pilot or employees who combat human trafficking.

: The Airport Art program features world-class exhibits, including the "Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Wall" and "A Walk Through Atlanta History".

For more news and personal accounts from across the city, you can explore the official ATL.Direct newsroom. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson? : The airport maintains its own platform, ATL

In 1925, Mayor Walter Sims signed a rent-free lease for 287 acres of land that was formerly the , an abandoned auto racing track. Named Candler Field after former mayor Asa Candler, the site was almost immediately a success. By 1930, Atlanta already ranked third in the nation for total daily flights, trailing only New York and Chicago. Becoming the World's Hub

: It is Georgia’s largest employer , supporting over 63,000 jobs and generating a $34.8 billion economic impact for the metro area. For more news and personal accounts from across

: It was the first airport in the world to serve more than 100 million passengers in a single year.

The story of " ATL "—short for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport—is a transformation from a quiet, abandoned racetrack into the . From Racetrack to Runway Named Candler Field after former mayor Asa Candler,

Hartsfield-Jackson’s rise to global dominance is largely due to its geography. It is the "economic jewel" of Georgia, with 80% of the U.S. population living within a of the city.