Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Intl (KATL)

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International is the busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic, and the hot end of the VectorHeavy catalog. Five parallel east-west runways stack north to south across the field, and Delta is about seven of every ten movements in the airline mix we model.

Atlanta runs banked flows: in west flow the arrivals land on the inner runways while departures roll off the outers, and east flow reverses the whole picture. With five parallels and heavy flows all day, the challenge is not any single sequence but the sheer volume arriving down the four corner-post gates at once. Southwest and Frontier back Delta on the airline side; SkyWest carries the Connection feed.

This is the Heavy tier: five parallels running at once, and the volume is the whole problem. Come here when the Steady fields feel slow.

Runway layout