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Hartsfeld-Jackson airport

The first stop at ATL is the Delta Sky Club. After only a short flight from DTW is the REAL flight from ATL to Zurich (almost 10 hours). While ATL is not one of my favorite hubs to have layovers in, they do have pretty nice lounges (membership has it's privileges).
One feature of the ATL Sky Club in terminal E is a full service bar, still complimentary. Food in the Sky Clubs in Atlanta have gone down a notch over the years. In the past soup and sandwiches were among the offerings, but lately only some nuts, crackers, and carrots/celery and hummus. 
Down escalator to the Underground trams
The airport in Atlanta is purportedly on of the busiest in the world (either number of connections or people?). They have a daily flight to Zurich, which stringgirl has beeb slow to use as she dislikes making excahnges in the US.


My general impression of the airport is of general dislike. The layout of the airport is superiorly frustrating. It is best described as a stick bug with legs labeled T, A-E. It has a long spine in the lower level that has a train for "speeding" from terminal to terminal. Each leg is a separate terminal wing. The terminals A-D handle doemstic traffic with E handling the international flights.
Airport map courtesy of Delta
Invariably, when I have flown from ATL for domestic travel, I could count on at least one gate/terminal change to the point where I have decided that knowing your assigned gate is actually a bit of a red herring; lately I stay put in the sky lounge until nearly the last minute to avoid having to jog the length of the long terminal legs back to the spine.
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