>>1147894Are you arguing that because of a few unusual incidents, each being rectified in less than a week, that building a new airport or fundamentally altering one of the world's largest airlines is justified? Sounds unreasonable to me. The number of times ATL has been fully shut down is so statistically insignificant that it doesn't justify the years of construction, community opposition, the billions of dollars it would cost, nor the political will it would take to make another Atlanta airport a reality. Delta strongly opposes building a second Atlanta airport too.
>2" of snow shuts down your operationsIce was the problem, not snow. As with virtually every major airport, Atlanta can operate through most of the winter precipitation it gets.
>power outage beyond your control halts your operations and fucks your operations for another week>beyond your controlIf it's beyond Delta's control, what are they supposed to do about it? Completely restructure the company's operations because of a problem that lasted less than a week? Blame is on Georgia Power for that one.
>ATL has no room to expand.Its master plan calls for a 6th runway to be constructed in the 2030s or 2040s.
>There is no other regional hub to take strain off ATL when things go tits up.There are large and small diversion airports all around ATL. Don't get the problem.
>But the second something goes wrong, it turns into a massive pileup of delays and cancellations.Just like any other infrastructure of significance.
