Originally Posted by
nladak
The main issue I have with the Atlanta station is that the airline has its operations split between the T, D, and E gates rather than clustering them together like they do in DEN and MCO. if they bothered to make that small investment, I think we would rapidly see an improvement in their operations there.
They use F gates in Atlanta as well (for international arrivals and the next departure of the arriving aircraft). I think this is mostly driven by gate availability. Delta is infamous for squatting on gates in ATL to restrict other carriers ability to enter or grow the market. So other airlines (and especially new entrants or carriers who want to grow quickly) have to make do with what is available at the time (mostly common use gates or the gates at the very end of the concourses). The gate situation should get better over time, assuming Frontier sticks around long enough to benefit.