![]() Right now, there’s a flight coming in to every two to three hours,” E said. “On a regular day, maybe there was a flight coming into a gate every two to three hours. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesĪn employee at the airport who works directly with one of the airlines, asking to be identified as E because she does not have permission to speak to the media, said her hours have been cut from 40 to 30 hours already. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta international airport is down 85% in passengers. Approximately three-quarters of a million jobs are directly or indirectly tied to the airport across the south-east of the United States. Among employees are thousands of airline workers, janitorial staff, restaurant staff and security, with a median salary of $71,500, well above the city’s median income. The airport is down 85% in passengers, he added.Ī staggering 63,000 people work at the airport when flights run at capacity. Right now, we’re down to 1,200 flights and they’re mostly empty,” Selden said. In other words, almost no seats available. “We usually have 2,600 flights a day here, fully loaded. “Revenue is probably down, off the top of my head, 50 to 60%,” the airport’s general manager, John Selden, said on a city council transport committee conference call at the end of March. A city within a city, the giant airport’s success keeps tens of thousands employed across the metro area, but as the airline industry takes brutal hits amid travel bans from Europe to the United States, its troubles are a huge blow for Atlanta.
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