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In time for Thanksgiving, planet's busiest airport will open new
car rental center.
Prime hub for both Delta and AirTran, It is indisputably the busiest airport on the planet. Last year 90,039,280 passengers passed through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), and a bunch of them rented cars – more than two million according to the airport. Problem is, they had to hop on a shuttle bus, be driven to a remote, inconvenient location and then head out from there.
Car rental has been a real hassle at ATL.
That’s primed to change, and soon. By the time Thanksgiving rolls around, Hartsfeld-Jackson’s new Rental Car Center (RCC) should be up and running, easing the angst of flyers headed home for family and food.
November 10 is the day RCC should render ATL decidedly more flyer-friendly. Instead shuttling to individual rental car lots, flyers will hop on board SkyTrain for a fast five-minute ride. The aboveground device that will deliver you across Interstate 85 to the Rental Car Center. At that center, all the car companies will be in one facility.
This one move alone, asserts ATL, will take 125 shuttle busses off the oft-times impossibly crowded roadways at the world’s busiest aerodrome. That’s good for the environment, and good for the nerves of airport-bound motorists (a tip from this Examiner.com reporter, always buckle up in a car rental or parking lot shuttle).
Here’s how to get to the new RCC after November 10:
- Pick up your checked luggage at either the north or south baggage claim area;
- Follow the overhead signs to ground transportation and the Rental Car Center;
- Exit the west end of the terminal under the covered walkway;
- Take the escalator up to the station, and take SkyTrain over to the RCC.
Atlanta follows the lead of a number of airports across the country in consolidating car rentals under one roof. Among the others: Baltimore/Washington (BWI), Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), Bush Houston Intercontinental (IAH), and Phoenix (PHX).
Artist's rendering of Atlanta car rental center courtesy of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
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