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Why is Atlanta so big I wonder? It's not a huge city right? Is there a lot of transfers or something? I've never been to the US :)
by wkat4242 3y ago
Why is Atlanta so big I wonder? It's not a huge city right? Is there a lot of transfers or something? I've never been to the US :)
- skinner927 3y agoIt’s not a small city, but the volume of traffic the airport has to handle is because it’s a transfer hub. Atlanta is a 2hr flight from 80% of the US population (not geographically).
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoPlus all of the Caribbean islands. And close enough to make it as a transfer to Latin America as well
- jhbadger 3y agoIt's the hub for Delta (one of the major US airlines).
- fddrdplktrew 3y ago> It's the hub for Delta (one of the major US airlines). I think Delta is the largest airline in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_airlines_in_the_world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_airlines_in_the_world They have so many huge buildings near/in that airport its crazy
- crote 3y agoIt's the hub-and-spoke model. For n cities, there are n^2 possible connections. Most of these will see hardly any traffic, so a direct flight would only happen once a week or so. With hub-and-spoke, everyone coming from Small City A will fly on the same quite-frequent flight to Atlanta, regardless of their intended destination. In Atlanta they'll all transfer to their own flights, going back to the individual smaller cities.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoAnd ATL weather almost never causes flights to be disrupted.