RandallW wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 10:44 am
I think that Atlanta as a hub is only really true for Delta Air Lines, which happens to be headquartered at that airport in Atlanta. In the 16 years I've been flying for work, the only time I changed flights in Atlanta was traveling overseas. But I feel as my father was fond of saying "All flights to Hell change in Atlanta."
Mr. Randall W, you wouldn't think of an IND/KIND-JBG/FAJS routing as going through KATL, but DL serves it -and is the only carrier so doing..
A dear friend of over forty years standing is Executive Director of an Indianapolis Not for Profit adoption agency that holds reciprocal licensure with one in Johannesburg. As such, she gets to go down there every couple of years. She used to fly SA, but they "took off" from North America leaving her with a fistful of useless points. So she now uses DL. What the heck, DL as good as owns KATL.
But getting back to the rails lest this missive gets killed, Atlanta, not being on any kind of waterway navigable by anything much beyond a canoe, it came to be the South's premier city in great part thanks to the railroads. You'd think with that heritage, there would be more than the "token one a day" there. We must acknowledge that so far as Atlanta is concerned it's "Daddy, what's a passenger train?" country.