I can stand the announcements they make on the train..."A is XQCWWWC. B is for %#T$TG$" I am sure you understand what I am saying
because under my breath, I am coming up with my own wordage.. which of course annoys my wife when we travel together

It has been since I moved here form Los Angeles back in 1996, it helps that I work for myself,
Hey, my wife who was a PLT on DL for years and years, she joined with me on AA, now she is EXP,
her upgrades are so far this year 100%, while she was with DL. about 5%.(and she works for a major shipping company based out ATL)

Wow what an incredible site! Thanks for sharing it (even though it just cost me a couple of hours of my life, but in a good way :D ). I learned a lot - for example, I never knew ATL had the IAD-like mobile lounges at one point. The city and airport planners were amazingly very forward-thinking a few decades ago.

I echo the sentiment here, ATL is almost incomprehensibly huge, and is certainly not perfect, but it generally does an amazing job of moving such a massive volume of passengers and aircraft through it every day. (No way will I book less than an hour connection there though - I am amazed at some of the short connection times I see on many itineraries when I go to book on Delta's website. I think I have seen like 39 mins., and I think the dom-dom MCT is :35?? Very risky IMO - the place is just too big.)

Prior to implementing the current announcements, they had shorter announcements that said, "Next stop, concourse B." The problem was that in a crowded car full of people talking, the announcements (over a relatively poor quality speaker system) couldn't be understood. "Concourse T" sounded just like "Concourse B" sounded just like "Concourse C" sounded just like "Concourse D" sounded just like "Concourse E".

I def applauded the change in announcements. Are the longer announcements overkill? Maybe, but remember that ATL has to move a LOT of people around, and anything that can be done to make things absolutely clear helps that movement to be efficient. I'll take annoying over inefficient any day. :rolleyes:

complaining about "A as in Alpha" on the plane train announcement is a shoe-in hall of fame entry https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delt...ain-about.html

ATL is a great airport for connecting. Not so much for an end point, but I rarely stop there. Every time I go somewhere else and walk much farther at a much smaller terminal, or have to take a bus to the other terminal (yeah, that's you JFK and LAX) I salute ATL in my head.

Oh, and it's the one place I go where there is a small chance my gate is not at the very end of the terminal ;)

I read once that there are vague, long range plans for yet another concourse, presumably to be named concourse G. Given how spread out the airport is from T to F already, G would end up in near Birmingham anyway so the city might still get their chance for a piece of the pie, LOL. ;)

I thought the long term plans included not only G but also an H and I.

Nit: T is the closest to Birmingham and F is the furthest, so G would be even further. :)

Concourse T expanding in both directions is the most likely next step
https://www.ajc.com/business/hartsfi...dd-more-gates/
The South extension of T rumored to be new home for Jet Blue.

I think time is responsible.

It was the international concourse in the beginning. When E was built it no longer served as the international concourse so it needed a letter. It is very close to Ticketing so T.

Otherwise they could have renamed all the concourses.

I always thought T stood for Terminal as in Concourse T connected to the Terminal - i have also heard the T gates called Terminal Gates. Perhaps T is for Terminus as in the Terminus of the Plane Train......

I like T for Ticketing as well.

Atlanta itself was known as "Terminus" in the 1800's for the confluence of rail lines that terminated there.

So "T" likely is a nod to that history as well.

It was always "T". When it was "International" and afterwards.