Hartsfield – Jackson International Airport has international service to North America, South America, Central America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport has a terminal and concourse space totaling.

Hartsfield – Jackson also has its own train station on the city's rapid transit system, MARTA.

World has been headquartered near Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport.

With the completion of this flight, Hartsfield has logged 483 hours in space.

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Named for former Atlanta mayor William Berry Hartsfield, who did much to promote air travel, William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport opened on September 21, 1980, on-time and under budget.

Atlanta City Council voted on October 20, 2003 to change the name from Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport to the current Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in honor of former mayor Maynard Jackson, who died on June 23, 2003.

In 1961, he ran for mayor in a bid to succeed William B. Hartsfield.

The next mayor, William B. Hartsfield, saw many of Atlanta's best business and professional people begin to leave the city for life in the suburbs and a labor-friendly candidate such as LeCraw became more popular.

He joined the Army, resigning his post in May 1942 when mayor pro tem George B. Lyle took over until a special election could be held on May 27, in which Hartsfield defeated eight opponents.

Roy LeCraw had fought a tough campaign against incumbent William Hartsfield and won on a slim margin but just a few months after taking office, he joined the army leaving mayor pro-tem Lyle until new elections could be held.

* William B. Hartsfield, mayor of Atlanta

During that summer Atlanta mayor William Hartsfield traveled to Washington numerous times pressing Senators Richard Russell, Jr. and Walter F. George to restore funding to ensure Atlanta's water supply during droughts.

He was named after the former mayor of Atlanta, William Berry Hartsfield.

The system, which uses rubber tires and travels along a fixed underground guideway, is similar to the people mover systems at Singapore Changi Airport, Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and Denver International Airport.

Reporter Gina Smith broke the Mark Sanford scandal story on June 24, 2009 when she interviewed Sanford at Atlanta Hartsfield Airport as he returned from Argentina

Located on Interstate 85 halfway between Montgomery, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia, Valley is 75 miles southwest of Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport ( ATL ) and 85 miles northeast of Montgomery Regional Airport ( MGM ) in Montgomery.

Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport is partially located in the city boundaries, and the Georgia International Convention Center, owned and operated by the City of College Park, is within the city limits.

In 1959, after a fire at Hammond Elementary School, Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield urged residents to support annexation so that the area would have better firefighting protection.

Fine Air ' hubs were in Miami International Airport, Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta and Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Puerto Rico.

Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport, known locally as Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield Airport, and Hartsfield – Jackson, is located seven miles ( 11 km ) south of the central business district of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Hartsfield – Jackson had its beginnings with a five-year, rent-free lease on that was the home of an abandoned auto racetrack named The Atlanta Speedway.

STS-4 launched from Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) on 27 June 1982 at 11: 00 am EST, with Ken Mattingly as commander, and Henry Hartsfield as pilot.

In 1999, Hartsfield – Jackson's leadership established the Development Program: " Focus On the Future " involving multiple construction projects with the intention of preparing the airport to handle a projected demand of 121 million passengers in 2015.

The Hartsfield – Jackson Rental Car Center, which opened on December 8, 2009, houses all ten current airport rental agencies with capacity for additional companies.

: Most aircraft movements annually ( 1999 – 2000, 2005 – present ); In 2007, Hartsfield again set the world's record for most aircraft movements in one year with 994, 346.

Because of an obstruction in the shuttle's external wastewater dumping system, a two-foot " pee-sicle " formed that Hartsfield removed with the Remote Manipulator System.

The crew members included Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr., commander ; Steven R. Nagel, pilot ; Bonnie J. Dunbar, James F. Buchli and Guion S. Bluford, mission specialists ; and Ernst Messerschmid and Reinhard Furrer of West Germany, along with Wubbo Ockels of the European Space Agency ( ESA ), all payload specialists.

Hartsfield retired in August 1977 from the United States Air Force with more than 22 years of active service but continues his assignment as a NASA astronaut in a civilian capacity.

In 1991, Mr. Hartsfield accepted the position of the Man-Tended Capability ( MTC ) Phase Manager, Space Station Freedom Program and Operations ( SSFPO ), with a duty station at the Johnson Space Center.

Mattingly ( foreground ) with Henry Hartsfield salutes President Ronald Reagan, next to First Lady Nancy Reagan, after the STS-4 landing on July 4, 1982. Mattingly was named to command STS-4, the fourth and final orbital test flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia, launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 27, 1982 with Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr., as the pilot.

Hartsfield is credited with developing Atlanta's airport into a national aviation center and ensuring a good water supply with the completion of the Buford Dam.

With the fifth runway, Hartsfield – Jackson is one of only a few airports that can perform triple simultaneous landings.

Mayor William B. Hartsfield filed suit for divorce from his wife, Pearl Williams Hartsfield, in Fulton Superior Court Friday.

The Hartsfield home is at 637 E. Pelham Rd. Aj.

He will be succeeded by Ivan Allen Jr., who became a candidate in the Sept. 13 primary after Mayor Hartsfield announced that he would not run for reelection.

* Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr

Columbia astronauts Ken Mattingly | Thomas K. Mattingly and Pilot Henry Hartsfield salute President Ronald Reagan, standing beside his wife, Nancy Reagan | Nancy, upon landing in 1982.

ValuJet Airlines was headquartered in northern unincorporated Clayton County, near William B. Hartsfield International Airport, in the 1990s.

He was followed by remarks from Mattingly and Hartsfield.

Hartsfield – Jackson held its ranking as the world's busiest airport in 2011, both in passengers and number of flights, by accommodating 92 million passengers ( 252, 000 passengers daily ) and 923, 991 flights.

As an international gateway to the United States, Hartsfield – Jackson ranks seventh.