Atlanta Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport is an international airport located south of Atlanta’s central business district, in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is named after former Atlanta mayors William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson. It has been the world’s busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998; by accommodating almost 104 million passengers in 2017. Many of the nearly one million flights are domestic flights from within the United States, where the airport serves as a major hub for travel throughout the southeastern region of the country. Hartsfield–Jackson is the primary hub of Delta Airlines, and is a focus city for low-cost carriers Frontier, Southwest, and Spirit.
Hartsfield–Jackson had its beginnings with a five-year, rent-free lease on 287 acres (116 ha) that was an abandoned auto racetrack named The Atlanta Speedway. The lease was signed in 1925. As part of the agreement, the property was renamed Candler Field after its former owner, Coca-Cola tycoon and former Atlanta mayor Asa Candler. The first flight into Candler Field was in 1926. In 1942 Candler Field was renamed Atlanta Municipal Airport and in 1980 the airport was renamed Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport. In 2003, the name was changed to the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
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